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London-based Romanian pianist George Todică is the 2nd Prize winner of the prestigious George Enescu Piano Competition 2022. Other recent competition success includes winner of the Royal Over-Seas League Keyboard Prize 2022, 1st Prizes at the Norah Sande Award in England, ‘Stefano Marizza’ Piano Competition in Italy, the Moray Piano Competition in Scotland, the Llangollen International Eisteddfod in Wales, 2nd prize at the International Piano Campus Competition in France, and 3rd Prize at the International Piano Competition Istanbul.
George had his Wigmore Hall debut in October 2018 as a Tillett Trust Young Artist . His international performances include prestigious halls such as the Trento Philharmonic Hall, the Mozarteum Concert Hall, the Romanian Athenaeum at the Enescu Festival, the Dôme de Pontoise in France, Wigmore Hall, St. Martin-in-the-field, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge and Buxton Festival.
A keen chamber musician, George is regularly performing with his wife, soprano Charlotte Hoather, with whom he has recorded 4 CD albums, and as part of the Chloe Piano Trio with violinist Maria Gîlicel and cellist Jobine Siekman. The Trio has been awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Henderson Chamber Ensemble Award in 2021 and have been selected as Kirckman Trust Young Artists’ for the 22/23 season.
George completed an Artist Diploma degree from the Royal College of Music in 2019 studying with Norma Fisher, and a Masters of Music at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2017, studying with Norman Beedie and Jonathan Plowright.
Born in Iasi in 1993, he started his musical training when he was six, under the guidance of Silvia Panzariu at the Octav Bancila School of Arts. In 2010, George won the ‘Constantin Silvestri’ Scholarship which allowed him study for one year at the Stewart’s Melville College in Edinburgh. A year later he entered the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where he would study for the next six years.
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