Cristian

Professional concert pianist based in West Hampstead. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, in Advanced Diploma in Performance (AdvDip), Masters in Music (MMus) and Bachelor of Music (BMus). In 2016 I have been awarded the Diploma of the Royal Academy of Music (DipRAM) for an outstanding performance in a Postgraduate Level Final Recital. My recent D B S check has been done in May 2020.

I am a creative teacher placing the needs of the student at the center of my focus. I encourage my students to think intelligently about music, whilst strengthening their confidence in their own artistic voice. Young children, need to discover music and piano through play, therefore I am making the lessons fun and entertaining for the little ones.

For more advanced studies, I teach piano in context, supporting my students in finding appropriate research materials, books, articles and historical recordings, to further assist and initiate a dialogue, a conversation about shaping their own interpretation of the score. I believe in the primacy of the composer’s initial musical intentions, in informed performance practise, but also in the performer’s ultimate status, as the only power to actualise music and bring it to life for contemporaries.


I am quite an outgoing person with a very open personality. I enjoy travelling, reading literature, philosophy, art galleries, theatre and comedy. I speak Romanian, English and French, having some significant knowledge of German. Italian, Spanish and Japanese are languages that I would love to perfect. If you would like to trade in piano lessons for languages lessons do let me know. I would love to improve my German, Japanese, Italian and Spanish (in this order!)

Availability: - weekdays in the afternoons and early evenings on Mondays and Tuesdays
- weekends - Saturday afternoon or evening

Willing to travel: 8 miles

Experience: - Prize winner of numerous awards and international piano competitions: Concours Musicale de Versailles, Citta di Olleggio International Piano Competition, Sheepdrove Intercollegiate Piano Competition, The Harold Craxton Chamber Music Prize and the William Sterndale Bennett Prize awarded by the Royal Academy of Music London, semifinalist of the Jacques Samuels Piano Competitions, Third Prize winner of the Eastbourne Symphony Orchestra Young Soloist competition, Runner up of the Automobile Club de France competition etc
- has participated in masterclasses with Imogen Cooper, Thomas Adès, Richard Goode Joanna MacGregor, Angela Hewitt, Hamish Milne, Christopher Elton, Pascal Devoyon, Jacques Rouvier,
- participation in numerous other international piano competitions (Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw, Lagny-sur-Marne Competition

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