About
Maria-Diana Petrache, born in Bucharest in 1994, became Doctor in Music in January 2023 and is currently Professor at the National University of Music Bucharest. She graduated her Master Studies at the University of Music Hannover with Professor Roland Krüger in 2019, and her Bachelor Studies at the National University of Music Bucharest with Professor Viniciu Moroianu in 2017.
She is an active presence on the concert stages. She performed as a soloist in different concertos (Mozart K 476, K 413 and K 365; Beethoven no. 2 and Triple Concerto; Schumann; Saint-Saëns no. 2; Rachmaninov no. 2), collaborating with over 10 different orchestras such as Webern Kammerphilharmonie from Vienna, Radio Chamber Orchestra – Bucharest, Târgu Mureș Philarmonic Orchestra, Oltenia Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra of Ploieşti, Filarmonica “Ion Dumitrescu”, Râmnicu-Vâlcea, „Concerto” Orchestra of the National University of Music, “Mihail Jora” Philharmonic Orchestra of Bacău, Philharmonic Orchestra of Botoşani etc. and conductors like Vladimir Kiradjiev (Austria), Gabriel Bebeşelea, Valentin Doni, Radu Postăvaru, Bogdan Vodă, Dario Bisso-Sabadin (Italia); Constantin Grigore, Corvin Matei (South Africa), George Hariton, I.I.Prunner, Gheorghe Iliuţă.
She also presented numerous solo and chamber music recitals in Romania, Germany, Austria, Italy, Israel and England.
Maria Diana Petrache won the Haydn prize at the International Competition Anton Rubinstein, Düsseldorf, 2018 and is a laureate (over 30 prizes) of numerous national and international contests that took place in Romania (1st prize at the Competition „Drumul spre celebritate”, Bucharest, 2017; 2nd prize at the National Competition „M. Jora”, Bucharest, 2017, etc.).
Maria Diana Petrache received numerous scholarships such as Erasmus+ in 2021 and 2015‑2016, DAAD Scholarship, granted for the academic year 2018-2019, Yehudi Menuhin – Live Music Now scholarship in 2018 and 2019, International Summer Aacademy scholarship in 2015 and 2017 etc.
She participated in masterclasses with great personalities and professors such as Christopher Elton, Andrei Gavrilov, Boris Berman, Lilya Zilberstein, Martin Hughes, Markus Schirmer, Gottlieb Wallisch, Markus Bellheim, Gabriel Amiraș etc.
In the field of chamber music, Maria Diana Petrache is recently collaborating with the violinist Valeriy Sokolov and, as a winner of a SoNoRo scholarship in 2012 and 2010, she had the privilege of being mentored and playing together with prestigious personalities, such as: the cellist David Cohen, the pianist Diana Ketler, the violinist Christina Merblum, the violonist Alexander Sitkovetsky.