Dr. Marcelina Turcanu
Dr. Marcelina Turcanu
Visiting Professor of Piano, (2008)
Marcelina Turcanu has performed extensively in Russia, Sweden, Romania, Germany, Spain, Greece, France, Italy, Portugal, Haiti and the United States. The Stockholm News has called her a pianist of "noble playing, combining a remarkable technique with a delicate and seductive tone" and The St. Petersburg Times "a passionate, generous and dramatic musician of an extreme concentration." In addition to her intense solo pianist and concert soloist schedule, Marcelina Turcanu is highly in demand as a collaborative pianist. She has appeared in recitals with performers such as Movses Pogossian, Sergei Proskurin, Mark Weiger, Rachel Joselson, Eugene Rousseau, Gordon Hunt, Peter Lloyd, Daniel Kenzi and Natalya Timoveyeva. Dr. Turcanu received first prize at national and international competitions including the Dinu Lipatti, the Tallinn International and the "Marjorie Conrad Peatee" Art Song competitions. In 1997, she was awarded the Prince De Lambrino Award for an outstanding teaching and performing career. The following year, she was invited to the United States by Jerome Rose and, since then, has performed over 350 recitals and given numerous master classes at universities in America and abroad. She has been invited to serve as adjudicator for piano competitions in Romania, Moldova, Russia, and the United States. Her teachers include Dmitri Ageev, Constantin Ionescu-Vovu, Dan Grigore, Dumitru Goya, Jerome Rose and Theodor Turcanu, her father. She served as assistant coach for the Kishinev and Bucharest Opera Houses and on the faculty of the Kishinev Conservatory and at the Academy of Music in Bucharest. Some of her students have gone on to win national and international competitions and many have continued their studies at the American and European universities. Dr. Turcanu is currently Artist in Residence at the International Academy for Russian Music, Arts and Culture. With the generous support of the Academy, she has translated and is preparing for publication Evgenii Shenderovich's eminent method Overcoming the technical difficulties in the piano reductions of orchestral scores. In the coming year, her engagements include recitals and master-classes in Sweden, Denmark, Cyprus, Romania and the United States. Her solo CD of piano music by Dinu Lipatti, Constantin Silverstri and Mihail Jora will be released in 2009.
