Alexandra Zlatior

Pianist, Royal College of Music

Pianist Alexandra Zlătior is currently in her third year at the Royal College of Music, studying for a BMus (Hons) degree with professor Nigel Clayton. She began learning piano at the age of five and went on to study at the Sigismund Toduţă Music High School with Lia Negru and Daniel Goiţi in Cluj, Romania.

Recent performances include piano recitals in Romania (Cluj and Bistriţa), Japan (Tokyo), France (Corbelin) and Greece (Poros). In London she has performed at the LPO' Mikro-Bartók Festival in the South Bank Centre, and the following RCM festivals: Chilingirian Schubert Festival, John Ireland - The English Impressionist, Planet Piano, Lizstomania, Brahms and his Contemporaries, and Watercolours. Alexandra has made her concerto debut at age 16 with the Sigismund Toduţă Music High School Orchestra in Cluj, followed by performances of the transcribed for piano quintet Mozart KV 414 A Major Piano Concerto in London.

In March this year she has performed Manuel de Falla with the IC Sinfonietta under William Carslake. While still studying in Romania she has won prizes in a number of prestigious competitions such as Viva la Musica, JS Bach Festival, George Georgescu International Competition and the S Toduta Festival. Future piano solo and chamber music appearances include performances at Dartford Parish Church and Charlton House, London.

Alexandra has played in piano master-classes with Svetlana Eganian, Robert Saterlee, Georg Sava, Ian Jones, Lilia Boyadjieva, Roy Howat and Leon McCawley. In addition she is studying harpsichord at the RCM with Robert Woolley and has played in a clavichord masterclass with Menno van Delft and a harpsichord masterclass with Kenneth Gilbert. She has also studied composition with Alison Kay. In 2010 she won First Prize in the National Young Composers Competition in her hometown, Cluj. One Through Another, an interdisciplinary project and one of her recent composition projects has been presented in the Great Exhibitionists Festival on the 9th of November 2011.

Intrigued by teaching and outreach programs, she participated and volunteered in a series of training sessions and group classes held by the Music House for Children, London. In the summer of 2011 she took initiative to organise a similar outreach program for the children in the care of the Retrieved Family Association, Cluj. She is currently teaching privately in London, enjoying passing on her findings and knowledge to younger and older generations.

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