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Ms. Manuela Mih\u0103ilescu is a graduate of the Ion Vidu Music School in Timi\u0219oara and the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory (National University of Music) in Bucharest. Ms. Mih\u0103ilescu is currently a piano professor at the Music Department of the West University of Timi\u0219oara. She has received numerous awards, including: First Prize at the Dinu Lipatti Competition in 1983, Bucharest; First Prize at the C\u00e2nt\u0103rea\u021ba Rom\u00e2niei Competition, editions 1979, 1985, 1987, 1989.<\/p>\n
She specialized in performance at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid (Spain), studying Spanish piano music in particular with professor and pianist Guillermo Gonzales. She integrated the study and performance experience of pieces from Isaac Albeniz’s Iberia series into her doctoral thesis “Piano Technique Regarding Impressionism in Music, as It Appears in the Solo Piano Works of Debussy, Ravel and Albeniz”, completed at the University of Music in Bucharest in November 2005, thus obtaining her doctorate in music. In 2005 she published “Suggestions for Approaching the Piano Works of C. Debussy, M. Ravel and I. Albeniz” and “Elements of Musical Language in the Piano Works of C. Debussy”, and in 2011 \u2013 “Coordinates of Musical Interpretation” for the West University of Timi\u0219oara Press.<\/p>\n
Ms. Mih\u0103ilescu frequently appears with philharmonic orchestras in Romania (Timi\u0219oara, Arad, Oradea, Craiova, Constan\u021ba). Currently, she is a soloist with the Banatul Philharmonic in Timi\u0219oara (www.filarmonicabanatul.ro), an active chamber musician and recitalist, performing concerts in major musical centers in Romania, as well as abroad, in piano duo with Drago\u0219 Mih\u0103ilescu in Germany, Italy, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Serbia, Macedonia, Spain, France, Austria, Hungary, Greece.<\/p>\n
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Manuela Iana Mih\u0103ilescu has served on the jury at prestigious piano competitions, such as the competitions in Jaen (2002, 2005) and Valencia \u2013 Jose Roca (2003), Spain; the National Competition for Students Belgrade, Serbia (2011); the Euroregional Competition Alma Cornea Ionescu \u2013 Timi\u0219oara, Romania (2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019), the Pro Piano Competition – Timi\u0219oara (2016, 2018); the International Competition Citta di Cosenza, Cosenza, Italy \u2013 Jury President (2013), the International B. Bart\u00f3k Competition, Szeged, Hungary (2017).<\/p>\n
Since 1990 she has been a university professor at the Faculty of Music \u2013 West University of Timi\u0219oara, Romania.<\/p>\n
She has been invited to teach piano masterclasses in Spain (Granada, Guadix), Italy (Adria, Campobasso, Mantova), Norway (Kristiansand – Agder University), Finland (Oulu), Bulgaria (Sofia), Portugal (Porto) and Romania (Timi\u0219oara, Oravi\u021ba).<\/p>\n
She has recorded 3 professional CDs (by Videoton Budapest, Hungary and Show Factory, Romania) with Drago\u0219 Mih\u0103ilescu and has also recorded for Romanian National Television and Romanian Radio.<\/p>\n
Manuela Iana-Mih\u0103ilescu has organized 12 editions of the Music Days in Oravi\u021ba music festival (2008 – 2019). Facebook: Music Days in Oravi\u021ba Festival.<\/p>\n
She is President of the ArteORA Cultural Association and Vice President of the Kratima Association in Timi\u0219oara.<\/p>\n
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