Luiza Borac

Luiza Borac is a Romanian classical pianist.

Life

In 2010 with the pianist Alice Herz-Sommer (left)

In 2012, Borac recorded several world premiere recordings with Jaime Martin and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields of works by the pianist and composer Dinu Lipatti. The double CD was awarded 5 stars by the BBC Music Magazine and 6 stars by the magazine Pianonews [de] as the best CD of the double month.^[1]

In March 2014, Borac received her doctorate from the Faculty of Musicology at the University of Bucharest on the piano works of George Enescu with the final grade summa cum laude.^[2]

Borac teaches piano at the Hanover Music School.^[3]

In 2015, Borac was a member of the jury of the Chopin Society [de] for the International Piano Competition.^[3]

In 2019, the pianist played the world premiere of George Enescu's 1897 unfinished Concerto for Piano and Orchestra at the Sala Radio of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company: Compus de ENESCU la Paris, la doar 16 ani: Concertul pentru pian și orchestră cântat prima oară la Sala Radio! (in Romanian language), article on the page orchestreradio.ro [without date], last accessed on 20 December 2019</ref>

Borac is the winner of more than 30 national and international awards,^[4] Including:

1st prize in the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Prize of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin,^[4]
1st prize at the International Music Competition Viotti-Valsesia, Italy^[4]
Silver medal at the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition in Salt Lake City^[4]
Debut prize of Carnegie Hall, in New York City^[4]
the Prix d'Oslo, the Grieg Prize and the Audience Prize at the Edvard Grieg International Piano Competition in Oslo^[4]
2007: Music Award of the BBC^[4]

In 1995, she was a prize winner of the Holland Music Sessions Concert Artists.^[5]

Robert Schumann – Kinderszenen, Etudes Symphoniques op. 13 (Avie)
Erbdrostenhof – Klavierabend mit Werken von Chopin, Liszt und Ravel (R+V)
Ceszky Krmlov Festival – Klavierabend mit Werken von Beethoven und Schumann
Glasgow International Piano Competition – Prizewinner Concert
Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition – Prizewinner Concert
WDR Orchester Köln – Chopin Variations op. 2 'La ci darem la mano' (BMG)
George Enescu – The Three Piano Suites (Avie)
Wanderer – Schubert and Liszt (Avie)
Don Giovanni – Chopin, Liszt, Beethoven (ZEIT-Stiftung)
George Enescu – The Two Piano Sonatas (Avie)
Frédéric Chopin – 24 Etudes and 6 Polish Songs (Avie)
Frühlingsglaube – Piano Transcriptions by Liszt and Rachmaninoff
2012: Piano Music of Dinu Lipatti, Aufnahme mit der Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Portsmouth: Avie Records
2014: Chants Nostalgiques, mit Werken von Leopold Godowsky, Fritz Kreisler, Sergei Rachmaninov, Franz Schubert, Franz Liszt, Constantin Silvestri, Francisco Tárrega, Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss, Tiberiu Brediceanu und Gheorghe Dima sowie eine Hommage an Ion Buzea, Portsmouth: Avie Records
2017: Inspirations & dreams, Booklet und 2 CDs mit Werken von George Enescu, Maurice Ravel, Marcel Mihalovici, Pablo de Sarasate, Claude Debussy und Robert Schumann, Neuhausen auf den Fildern: Profil Medien
2019: Mozart in Love, Profil Medien

Johannes Saltzwedel [de]: Rumänischer Barock / Dinu Lipatti ist als Pianist eine Legende. Nun sind endlich auch seine faszinierenden Kompositionen zu hören. Rezension in the Kulturspiegel, Kulturbeilage der Zeitschrift Der Spiegel, Ausgabe 1/2013 dated 31 December 2012, p. 39; auch als PDF-Dokument

^ Luiza Borac, booklet to the CD Chants Nostalgiques, 2014: Avie Records, p. 25
^ "Luiza Borac" on the page avie-records.com [no date], last accessed on 14 May 2018
^ ^a ^b Stefan Arndt: From the city competition of the Chopin Society The pianist of the piano capital ..., article on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung dated 22 March 2015, last accessed on 14 May 2018
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Luiza Borac", in booklet Inspirations & dreams, Neuhausen auf den Fildern: Profile Media, 2017, p. 5f.
^ Luiza Borac (in English) with biographical information and CDs on the site of the label Avie Records