Aida Marc

She began studying piano at the age of 7 in Timișoara. She graduated from the Ion Vidu Art High School, where she studied with Professor Robert Stupak. She then continued her piano studies at the G. Dima Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca, and later in the United States at The University of Alabama, where she obtained her Doctor of Musical Arts degree.

Aida Marc attributes many of her successes to the influence of the professors with whom she studied piano during her studies—in Cluj: Daniel Goiți and Dan Grigore, and in the USA: Eteri Andjaparidze and Amanda Penick.

As a pianist, she achieved her first successes during her studies when she won Second Prize at the Mihail Jora Competition in Bucharest, the Radio-TV Prize, the Prize for Best Performance of a Romanian Piece, and the Bucharest City Prize. The pianist’s talent is also recognized overseas, in the United States, where she receives a scholarship to study in Chicago at DePaul University and then at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. At the latter institution, she won the Concerto Competition, and as part of the prize, she was soloist with the Huxford Symphony Orchestra, performing Liszt’s Concerto No. 2.

Having a special affinity for the art of singing, Aida Marc is employed at The School of Music and Opera Theater Department in Tuscaloosa and at Stillman College-Fine Arts Department as collaborative pianist. From this position as a close collaborator with singers, accompanying at the annual young artists’ competition of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) in Tuscaloosa, USA, the pianist receives the ex aequo award for Best Collaborative Pianist, and recently receives the Zeno Vancea Prize, also for accompaniment at the Tiberiu Brediceanu International Competition

Aida has had fruitful collaborations over time with prestigious singers such as Judit Kutasi (Germany), Diana Ardelean (Norway), Eliza Băleanu (Austria), Susan Fleming, Luvada Harrison, Charles Wood, Paul Houghtaling (USA)

In the field of solo and chamber music, the pianist has achieved success in Germany, alongside the chamber orchestra from Bad Wildbad and Pforzheim, and alongside the Capstone Quartet from the USA. She also performs sonata recitals both in Romania and abroad alongside her husband, violinist Teofil Buteică. Among the prestigious instrumentalists from abroad with whom the pianist has collaborated are Demondrae Thurman (euphonium-USA), Antonio Portela da Silva (flute-Brazil), Dan Totan (cello-USA), Gosia Leska (violin-USA)

Connected to her native city, Aida Marc currently holds the position of Associate Professor at the Faculty of Music and Associate Professor at the “Ion Vidu” National College of Arts in Timișoara.