Florian Mitrea (piano) was born in Romania in 1989. He won many piano competitions in Romania, including First Prize in the National Music Olympics for 3 consecutive years. He won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music where he won several awards and graduated last year with First Class Honours, and is currently a postgraduate student there. He won the Vienna International Piano Competition in 2010, and the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe competition in 2010. Recently he was a finalist (fourth prize and chamber music award) at the Hamamatsu Piano Competition and earlier in 2015 was awarded second prizes at both the Santa Cecilia Competition in Porto, and the Premio Città di Imola at the Imola Academy. In 2014 Florian won third prize and the Classical Concerto Prize at the ARD International Competition in Munich, and first prize at Lagny-sur-Marne. He has performed widely in London and elsewhere, and on Radio 3 and on Romanian radio and TV. He has performed recitals and concertos across Romania, and in Austria, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Germany, Switzerland, Japan and South Korea. In the UK Florian has performed at venues including St John's Smith Square, King's Place, St. Martin-in-the Fields, St. James' Piccadilly, Steinway Hall, Draper's Hall, Colston Hall and Bath Abbey. Performances by Florian have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Romanian radio and television and Südwestrundfunk (SWR2) and Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR-Klassik) in Germany.

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