Radu Lupu

Radu Lupu ( born November 30, 1945 in Galaţi ) is a Romanian pianist.

Life

Lupu had his first piano lessons with Lia Busuioceanu. At the age of twelve years he played in public a program of his own compositions. He continued his education at Florica Musicescu, the teacher of Dinu Lipatti, and Cella Delavrancea continued. In 1961 he received a scholarship to the Moscow Conservatory. There he studied until 1969 with Galina Eghyazarova, Heinrich Neuhaus and Stanislaw Neuhaus. He won in the time of three international competitions: the 1966 Van Cliburn Piano Competition, the 1967 George Enescu Competition and the 1969 Leeds Piano Competition.

Since then, Lupu works regularly with major orchestras. In the USA, he joined in 1972 with the Cleveland Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini on. At the Salzburg Festival, he debuted in 1978 with the Berlin Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan, and was in 1986 with the Vienna Philharmonic under Riccardo Muti, the opening concert. In 1989 he was awarded the Abbiati, the price of the Italian critics association.

In the center of lupus repertoire includes the great German composer of the Classical and Romantic eras: he played all five Beethoven Piano Concertos ( with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Zubin Mehta ), as well a as the piano concertos of Brahms and Schumann, the piano sonatas by Mozart and Schubert. The Sonatas for Violin and Piano by Mozart, he recorded with Szymon Goldberg, and the four-hand piano works by Mozart and Schubert with Murray Perahia and Daniel Barenboim. With the violinist Chung Kyung- wha he took on the A major Sonata by César Franck and the A minor Sonata by Claude Debussy. As accompanist, he worked among others with Barbara Hendricks.

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