Mihaela Ursuleasa
Mihaela Ursuleasa ( born September 27, 1978 in Braşov, † 2 August 2012, in Vienna, Austria ) was a Romanian pianist.
Life
Mihaela Ursuleasas father, a Rome, was a jazz pianist, her mother was a Moldavian singer. Mihaela was a so-called child prodigy who played the 32 variations of Beethoven at the age of nine and went on concert tours. Mihaela Ursuleasa should be drilled as a competitive athlete to technical perfection. In 1990, she played as a twelve- year-old in front of the conductor Claudio Abbado. The advised her to leave for an intense musical development time. Mihaela Ursuleasa followed his advice and stayed in Vienna. She retired to concert performances and focused on their school and piano training.
In 1995, she won the Clara Haskil Competition. The other school education followed concert and recital evenings. In 1998 she made her debut at the Salzburg Festival with the Mozarteum Orchestra and in January 1999 she went with the German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen under Paavo Järvi on tour. In the same year she made her diploma as a concert pianist at Heinz Medjimorec in Vienna.
This was followed by recitals in many major concert halls such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Philharmonie Cologne, Tonhalle Zurich and at Carnegie Hall in New York. Mihaela Ursuleasa played, among others, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and over again with the Vienna Symphony. She performed at numerous international festivals such as, among others, at the Lucerne Festival, the Salzburg Festival and the Beethoven Festival in Warsaw.
As a chamber musician Mihaela Ursuleasa has played, among others, with cellist Sol Gabetta and Patricia Kopatchinskaja; with two they played chamber music works a CD.
Her first solo album, Piano & Forte, was released on 16 October 2009 noble / Berlin Classics at the label and was awarded the ECHO Klassik 2010 in the category " Solo Recording of the Year" ( 19th century, piano). Ursuleasa played Ludwig van Beethoven's 32 Variations in C minor, Op 117, the interludes of Johannes Brahms, Maurice Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit cycle, the first piano sonata by Alberto Ginastera and a Toccata by Paul Constantinescu one. Their second CD, Romanian Rhapsody, with works by, among others, George Enescu, Paul Constantinescu, Franz Schubert and Bartók was published on 11 March 2011 with the same label.
Mihaela Ursuleasa lived in Vienna. On August 2, 2012 she was found dead in her flat in Vienna. According to coroner she died of a cerebral hemorrhage. She left behind a daughter and was August 9, 2012 at the Bucharest cemetery " Cimitirul Serban Voda " is also called " Cimitirul Bellu " buried with military honors. This cemetery is known as the Pantheon of Romania.