Teo Gheorghiu
| Teo Gheorghiu | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 12, 1992 |
| Origin |  Männedorf, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland |
| Genres | classical |
| Instruments | piano |
Teo Gheorghiu is a young Swiss-Canadian pianist and actor born on August 12, 1992 in Männedorf in Canton of Zürich, Switzerland from Romanian and Canadian parents.[1][2]
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[edit] Movie
In 2004 he played the main character in Vitus, released in 2006.[3] For this role he was presented with an Undine Award in Baden, Austria for the best male debut in 2007.[4]
[edit] Music
He started playing the piano at the age of 5 with Daniel Höxter.[2] He studied at the Purcell School, a music boarding school in London, from 2001 to 2010.[3] He currently attends the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he studies with Gary Graffman.[5]
He won the first prize in the San Marino Piano Competition in 2004. In 2005 he was first again in the Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Weimar.[3]
He made his first public concert performance in 2004 in Zürich Tonhalle with Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto.[3] In May 2007 his interpretation of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Winterthur Orchestra was acclaimed.[3] The same year he gave concerts with the Tokyo New City Orchestra, the Zürich Chamber Orchestra (dir. Muhai Tang) and the Berne Symphony Orchestra. In 2008 he played concerts in Tokyo, Istanbul, London, Saint Petersburg and Potsdam.[6] In 2009 toured in Zürich, Gstaad,[7] and he will also be in Harrogate, Bad Saarow, Bucharest, Bonn, in China and in Taiwan.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ Andrew Littlejohn (2008-10-30). "I need to get my energy out somehow!". Swissinfo. http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/front/I_need_to_get_my_energy_out_somehow.html?siteSect=108&sid=10021425&cKey=1228033401000&ty=st. Retrieved 2009-04-19.
- ^ a b (German) "TEO GHEORHIU, Vitus (12 Jahre)". vitus-film.com. http://www.vitus-film.com/de/cast-teo-gheorghiu.php?n=20. Retrieved 2009-04-19.
- ^ a b c d e "International Festival "George Enescu": Artists". George Enescu Festival. http://wikiwix.com/cache/?url=http://www.festivalenescu.ro/eng/artisti/teo_gheorghiu.html. Retrieved 2009-04-18.
- ^ "Undine Award for Teo Gheorghiu". 2007-10-29. Archived from the original on 2007-11-01. http://web.archive.org/web/20071101235938/http://www.swissfilms.ch/detail_n.asp?id=2137729209. Retrieved 2009-04-18.
- ^ http://www.harrisonparrott.com/artist/instrumentalist/teo-gheorghiu
- ^ a b (French) Falconnier, Isabelle (15 January 2009). "Vitus a grandi. Génial!". L'Hebdo (3): 68–69. ISSN 1013-0691. http://wikiwix.com/cache/?url=http://www.hebdo.ch/_1252_.html. Retrieved 2009-04-19.
- ^ (French) Sylvie Bonier (2009-02-02). "Theo Gheorghiu a pris son envol à Gstaad". Tribune de Genève. http://www.tdg.ch/actu/culture/theo-gheorghiu-pris-envol-gstaad-2009-02-01. Retrieved 2009-04-19.
[edit] External links
Teo Gheorghiu at the Internet Movie Database
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