Florian Mitrea
Piano Professor
Described by Martha Argerich as ‘an outstanding young pianist’, British-Romanian pianist Florian Mitrea was a double-laureate at the Glasgow, Hamamatsu, and Munich-ARD International Piano Competitions. He won the piano section of the Royal Overseas League Music Competition, and was a major prize winner at the Harbin – China, St Priest, and James Mottram-Manchester International Piano Competitions. He was the top prize winner at the 2018 New York International Piano Festival, and consequently gave his debut performance at Carnegie Hall.
Florian has performed as a soloist with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Philharmonia in London, Elbland Philharmonie in Dresden, Collegium Musicum in Basel, the Romanian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the George Enescu Philharmonic. A recitalist and concerto soloist at festivals such as Lucerne in Switzerland and Enescu – Bucharest, Florian has also performed at the Bozar Centre in Brussels, the Zhuhai Grand Theatre in China, the Bunka Kaikan Hall in Tokyo and the Sonic Concert Hall in Oomiya City, the Seoul Arts Centre, the Harbin Concert Hall, and in the UK at the Usher Hall - Edinburgh, Royal Concert Hall - Glasgow, Bridgewater Hall - Manchester, King’s Place
and St Martin in the Fields in London. He recorded and performed live for numerous broadcasters, frequently for the BBC, but also for SWR, BR, Radio France Musique, Radio Télévision Suisse, and Radio Romania Muzical, and reviewers have praised his playing as ‘absorbing and masterly’ (Edinburgh Music Review 2020). He was a Making Music Young Artist, a Kirckman Concert Society pianist, and was selected to perform in the historic Manchester Mid-day Concerts Series.
Florian trained with Flavia Moldovan and Gabriela Enasescu at the George Enescu National Music College in Bucharest, before winning a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London under Diana Ketler. He graduated with First Class Honours and the DipRAM Distinction, and he is now a piano professor at the RAM. The last major artistic influence on his development was the intense course at the Imola Piano Academy in Italy with the legendary pianist Boris Petrushansky.
Florian has been appointed an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, a specialist piano teacher at the Purcell School for Young Musicians, and an examiner for the ABRSM.