Dinu Mihailescu

PIANO

Born in Timișoara in 1988 to a family of classical musicians, Dinu Mihailescu is a Romanian pianist who studied in Romania and later at the Haute Ecole de Musique (HEM) in Geneva with Professors Dominique Weber and Cédric Pescia.

Dinu also received two special prizes for outstanding academic results and had the opportunity to study with renowned pedagogues such as Leon Fleisher, Dmitri Bashkirov, Menahem Pressler, Julian Martin, Robert McDonald, and Paul Coker.

In 2021, Dinu received the title of Doctor of Music with distinction from the Western University of Timișoara (Romania), thanks to his doctoral thesis, The Interpretation of Béla Bartók’s Musical Microcosm: Between the Elements of Musical Language and Artistic Expression.

Dinu has performed as a soloist with the main orchestras in Romania as well as with the Orchestra of the HEM of Geneva and the Orchestra of the Festival of Gijón-Candás. His musical career also includes participation in various international competitions and festivals such as the Millennium Piano Festival of Gijón (Spain), Puplinge Classique (Switzerland), Les Estivales de Megève (France), and the Geneva International Piano Competition (2012).

In Switzerland, he has performed in important venues such as the Yehudi Menuhin Forum in Bern, the Ansermet Studio of the Swiss Radio and Television (Geneva), the Franz Liszt Hall of the Conservatoire de Musique, the Les Salons Theater, and the Cour de l’Hôtel- de-Ville in Geneva.

In 2020, he made his debut at Victoria Hall in Geneva in a concert featuring the two-piano duo OXY MORE with Swiss pianist Philippe Boaron. That project included recording a CD of innovative repertoire for two pianos in 2021 at the Rosey Concert Hall in Rolle (Switzerland).

Mr. Mihailescu received numerous awards and prizes, including second prize at the Béla Bartók International Piano Competition (Hungary, 2017), second prize at the Nice International Piano Competition (France, 2016), and the Rotary Club Award for Excellence for his participation in art and culture in Romania (Timișoara, 2018).

Since 2017, Dinu has been teaching piano at the Popular Conservatory of Music, Dance and Theater in Geneva (Switzerland) and at the Music School of Lausanne. He is increasingly dedicated to mixing classical and modern repertoire with contemporary piano repertoire. To that end, his most recent projects include audio-video recordings of Max Richter’s piano music connected with piano works from Romantic repertoire by Schubert, Chopin, and Schumann.