Luiza Borac is a Romanian classical pianist.
Life
In 2012, Borac recorded several world premiere recordings with
Jaime Martin and the
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
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John Churchill, then Master of Music at the London church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, and Neville Marriner founded the orchestra as "The Academy o ...
of works by the pianist and composer
Dinu Lipatti
Constantin "Dinu" Lipatti (; 2 December 1950) was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was cut short by his death from effects related to Hodgkin's disease at age 33. He was elected posthumously to the Romanian Academy. He comp ...
. The double CD was awarded 5 stars by the
BBC Music Magazine
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History
The first issue appeared in September 1992. BBC Worldwide, the commercial subsidiary of the BBC was the original owner and publisher toget ...
and 6 stars by the magazine ' as the best CD of the double month.
[''Luiza Borac'', booklet to the CD ''Chants Nostalgiques'', 2014: Avie Records, ]
In March 2014, Borac received her doctorate from the Faculty of Musicology at the
University of Bucharest
The University of Bucharest ( ro, Universitatea din București), commonly known after its abbreviation UB in Romania, is a public university founded in its current form on by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princel ...
on the piano works of
George Enescu
George Enescu (; – 4 May 1955), known in France as Georges Enesco, was a Romanian composer, violinist, conductor and teacher. Regarded as one of the greatest musicians in Romanian history, Enescu is featured on the Romanian five lei.
Biog ...
with the final grade ''
summa cum laude
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''.
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on the page ''avie-records.com'' o date
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last accessed on 14 May 2018
Borac teaches piano at the Hanover Music School.
[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
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Lower Saxony (german: ...
'' dated 22 March 2015, last accessed on 14 May 2018
In 2015, Borac was a member of the
jury
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of the for the International Piano Competition.
In 2019, the pianist played the world
premiere
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A work will often have many premières: a world première (the first time it is shown anywhere in the world), its first ...
of George Enescu's 1897 unfinished Concerto for Piano and Orchestra at the
Sala Radio of the
Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company
The Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company ( ro, Societatea Română de Radiodifuziune), informally referred to as Radio Romania ( ro, Radio România), is the public radio broadcaster in Romania. It operates FM and AM, and internet national and lo ...
''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''
ithout date last accessed on 20 December 2019
Awards
Borac is the winner of more than 30 national and international awards,
Including:
* 1st prize in the
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Prize of the
Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin,
["Luiza Borac", in booklet ''Inspirations & dreams'', Neuhausen auf den Fildern: Profile Media, 2017, .]
* 1st prize at the International Music Competition Viotti-Valsesia, Italy
* Silver medal at the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition in
Salt Lake City
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* Debut prize of
Carnegie Hall
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, in New York City
* the Prix d'Oslo, the Grieg Prize and the Audience Prize at the Edvard Grieg International Piano Competition in Oslo
* 2007: Music Award of the
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In 1995, she was a prize winner of the Holland Music Sessions Concert Artists.