Selected for representation by Young Concert Artists Trust (YCAT) in 2008, Alexandra Dariescu is an outstanding communicator, hugely popular with audiences.

Over the last year she has appeared as soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonia ViVA, Northern Chamber Orchestra, the Nottingham and York Symphony Orchestras, performing Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Scriabin and Beethoven Concerto‘s. She also performed Mozart’s Concerto K.414 with the European Union Chamber Orchestra in Witten, Germany and Tchaikovsky‘s Concerto No.1 with the International Orchestra for Freedom at St. John’s Smith Square. She has given recitals at Wigmore Hall, Barbican, Leeds International Series, Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, the Bath, Leicester, Ribble Valley and Exeter International Festivals.

This summer Alexandra was resident at the Verbier Festival Academy in Switzerland and was awarded the Piano Prize. Future engagements include a recital (5 April) and a masterclass with Imogen Cooper at Wigmore Hall (9 Nov), a recital at the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham as part of the International Piano Series, a performance of the Elgar Piano Quintet with the Elias Quartet, Schumann Quintet with the Belcea Quartet, Tchaikovsky 1 with the EMG Symphony Orchestra, Brahms 1 with Norwich Symphony, Rachmaninov Paganini Variations with Slough Philharmonic and Beethoven's Triple Concerto with the Nottingham Philharmonic Orchestra. Alexandra will give the premiere of the new piano concerto written for her by the award winner composer Emily Howard with the Liverpool Mozart Orchestra on their 60th anniversary season.

Committed to chamber music, Alexandra has collaborated with the Sacconi Quartet at Wigmore Hall, the Idomeno Quartet at the City of London Festival and with violinist Alina Ibragimova in London. She made her UK debut at Bridgewater Hall in the 2006 Piano Festival with the RNCM Chamber Orchestra conducted by André de Ridder, broadcast live by BBC Radio 3. Further afield she has given recitals in the USA, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Spain and Moldavia and broadcast for BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM, radio and television stations across Romania, Manx Radio, Isle of Man and Nevada Radio in California. In 2008 she won the prestigious Prix Maurice Ravel at the Academie Internationale de Musique Ravel in France, returning to give a recital at the Ravel Festival in 2009.

Born in Romania in 1985, 25 year old Alexandra Dariescu studied in Iasi, Romania, Pocklington School in York and the Royal Northern College of Music (where her teachers included Nelson Goerner, Mark Ray, Alexander Melnikov and Dina Parakhina) graduating in 2008 with distinction. This summer she completed her Masters at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Ronan O'Hora and was awarded the prestigious GSMD Piano Fellowship for 2010/2011.

During her studies at the RNCM Alexandra won all the major prizes and awards including the Gold Medal, Chopin Prize and Peter Donohoe Prize and in 2006 won 2nd Prize in the Adila Alieva Competition in Gaillard. She has appeared with the State Philharmonic in Romania, Kisinev Philharmonic, Eastbourne Symphony, Liverpool Mozart Orchestra, Blackburn, York and Sheffield Symphony Orchestras.