Enescu Soirees Debut Online with Daniel Ropotă (Piano)

As our cultural promotion efforts are starting to unfold only in the virtual sphere, we are pleased to announce the continuation of our popular Enescu Soirees of New York program as a series of online recitals, recorded exclusively for us by some of Romania’s most brilliant musicians and broadcast every Thursday. The run debuts with the virtuosic Manchester-based pianist Daniel Ropotă playing Enescu’s Toccata from Suite No. 2 and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. 

Available on our Facebook, YouTube and at rciusa.info/blog from Thursday, April 16, 7 p.m. (New York time). RSVP is possible but not necessary.

See trailer on YouTube.

DANIEL ROPOTĂ is a Romanian pianist based in Manchester, UK. Alumnus of the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), Daniel is currently in his first year of the Master of Music course at the RNCM and has professor Helen Krizos as principal study tutor. He was granted a scholarship award for his first undergraduate academic year (2015/2016) and is now doing his postgraduate studies under the ABRSM EU Postgraduate Scholarship.

His past years are marked by a total of twenty four prizes received at piano competitions from countries like Romania, Italy, and Hungary. He made his debut as soloist at the age of fifteen and since then he has played with different philharmonic orchestras from Romania, Moldavia, and England. He held solo piano and chamber music recitals in festivals such as "George Enescu" International Festival in Bucharest, "The Chetham's International Piano Summer School" in the United Kingdom, and "Crescendo Summer Institute Festival" in Hungary.

He has collaborated with conductors such as Olivier Robe, Vlad Conta, Mihail Agafita, Marco Belassi, and Juan Ortuno.

Daniel had the opportunity to participate in masterclasses of pianists Stephen Hough, Kathrynn Stott, Philippe Cassard, Andreas Henkel, Reto Reichenbach, Csiky Boldizsar, Rostislav Yovchev, Pascal Solomon, Alexandra Dariescu, Josu Okinena and many others.

Last year he made his London debut at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, being invited by the Romanian Cultural Institute. He finished his undergraduate studies with a concert at the University of Manchester where he performed George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with Gorton Philharmonic Orchestra.