"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything".-Plato
BIOGRAPHY
Venezuelan pianist, Emiliano Ramniceanu had already made his Debut at the Teresa Carreno Hall in Caracas with the Miranda State Symphony Orchestra at the age of 13, receiving later a scholarship to study in the Interlochen Arts Academy, a prestigious high school for talented artists, under the tutelage of Dr. Michael Coonrod. He then, proceeded to study Bachelor at the San Francisco Conservatory under Yoshikazu Nagai and Master at the Eastman School of Music under Dr. Nelita True, with merit scholarship under both institutions. Since then, Ramniceanu has worked as a soloist, chamber-musician, and ensemble pianist in Venezuela, United States and Europe.
As a soloist, he has performed in major cities around the world including Hamburg, Flensburg, Cologne, San Francisco, Rochester, Paris, London, Vienna, Amalfi, Montepulciano and Caracas. Also, he has played as a soloist with various orchestras including the Francisco de Miranda Symphony and the Miranda State Symphony Orchestra in Venezuela, the Publikumsorchester Hamburg and the Junge Kammerorchester Hamburg. In January 2019, Ramniceanu gave his debut in both halls of the prestigious Elbphilharmonie playing a solo recital and the Prokofiev’s First Piano Concerto with the Publikumsorchester. One year later he played again in the Kleine Saal from the Elbphilharmonie as a Soloist with the Junge Kammeorchester Hamburg.
Other noteworthy performances are the concert at the Gustav Mahler Festival am Attersee 2021, where Ramniceanu performed together with his mentor Christiane Behn, the singers Iris Vermillion and Brigid Steinberger, and the Bach Chor Salzburg an arrangement of the second Mahler Symphony arranged for two pianos, choir and two soloist singers. Ramniceanu also performed in the Schleswig-Holstein Festival with Cellist Daniel Arias and for the opening of the “Musik in den Häusern der Stadt” festival.
HONORS AND PRIZES
Ramniceanu also appeared in television and radio broadcasts from Interlochen Public Radio in the United States and NDR Kultur and NDR Fernsehen in Germany. Ramniceanu continues to give regular performances while he courses his studies of Music Performance at the College of Musik and Dance in Cologne under Florence Millet and Instrumental Pedagogy at the Hamburg Conservatory under Christiane Behn. Some of his future engagements include a concert as solist with the Wolsey Orchestra in England in May 2022, and a Concert as a soloist with the Wuppertal Symphony.
Ramniceanu has been awarded merit scholarships and numerous prizes in local, national and international competitions in Venezuela, United States and Germany. Most recently he was the 1st and 3rd prize winner of the Brahms International Piano Competition in Hamburg in two consecutive years. Among other competition prizes are 2nd Prize, VIII Concurso Nacional de Piano Silvia Eisenstein, 2nd Prize, Concurso Nacional de Piano a Cuatro Manos Gerty Haas-Olga Mondolfi, and 2nd Prize, Concurso Nacional de Piano Harriet Serr, all three on the national level in Venezuela.
2023
Sunday February, 5th, 7am
Laeiszhalle, Grosser Saal. Hamburg, Germany
Sinfonieorchester Eppendorf
Pianist: Emiliano Ramniceanu
More Information and Tickets at:
https://www.elbphilharmonie.de/en/whats-on/sinfonieorchester-eppendorf/19063
Sunday January, 8th, 11:00am
Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal. Hamburg, Germany
New Year Concert from the Stiftung Flügel-Fundus c/o Sutor Stiftung
Pianists: Emiliano Ramniceanu, Andrey Denisenki, Moises Mattos,
Junges Kammerorchester Hamburg
More Information and Tickets at:
https://www.elbphilharmonie.de/en/whats-on/neujahrskonzert-der-stiftung-flugel-fundus/19270
2022
Tuesday November, 1st, 6:00pm
Historische Stadthalle, Mendelssohn Saal, Wuppertal, Germany
Symphony Concert „Junge Talente“ with the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln Orchester
Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto N. 1, Op. 10
Sunday, January 19th, 11:00am
Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal. Hamburg, Germany
New Year Concert from the Flugel-Fundus Foundation
Soloists: Emiliano Ramniceanu, Daniel Arias, Andrey Denisenki, Moises Mattos, Junges Kammerorchester Hamburg
More Information and Tickets at https://www.elbphilharmonie.de/en/whats-on/neujahrskonzert-der-stiftung-flugel-fundus/17498
Sunday, February 6th
Historische Stahdthalle, Wuppertal, Germany
Faculty Chamber Music Concert of the College of Music Cologne
Tuesday, March 1st and 2nd, 9:45am and 11:00am
Historische Stadthalle, Wuppertal, Germany
Camile Saint-Saens: Carnaval of the Animals
Symphonieorchster Wuppertal, Soloists: Emiliano Ramniceanu and Ahhyun Lee
More Information and Tickets at https://www.sinfonieorchester-wuppertal.de
Monday, May 16th
Concert with the Wolsey Orchestra at The Corn Exchange, Ipswich, UK
Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto in a minor, Op. 16
Piano: Emiliano Ramniceanu, Conductor: Richard Laing
More Information and Tickets at http://www.wolseyorchestra.org
2021
Mahler Festival at the Attersee Concert in Kammer Castle, Austria
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2, Arrangement for two Pianos, Choir and Soloists.
Pianists: Emiliano Ramniceanu and Christiane Behn, Alto: Iris Vermillion, Soprano: Dorothea Röschmann
More Information and Tickets at https://www.mahler-steinbach.at/gustav-mahler/festival-2019-1/
2019
Tuesday, November 12th, 7pm
Opening Concert from Musik in Hausern der Stadt Festival in Goßlerhaus, Hamburg, Germany
Solo Piano and Chamber Music Recital with works from Beethoven, Ravel, and Dubois
Piano: Emiliano Ramniceanu, Violin: Mio Sasaki, Viola: Florian Huber, Cello: Daniel Arias, Oboe: Yuka Kato
Saturday, November 9th, 8pm
Solo Piano and Chamber Music Recital in Alte Drückerei Ottensen, Hamburg, Germany
Piano: Emiliano Ramniceanu, Violin: Mio Sasaki, Viola: Florian Huber, Cello: Daniel Arias, Oboe: Yuka Kato
Saturday, November 2nd, 8pm
Multimedia-Concert Venezuela auf Knien at One World Kulturzentrum, Lüneburg, Germany
Works from Scriabin, Chopin, and Ravel, Venezuelan Composers and Hector Docx
Video and Art Installation by Hector Docx
Piano: Emiliano Ramniceanu
Monday, September 9th, 6:30pm
Concert from Verein der Musikfreunde in Flensburg, Germany
Solo Recital with works from Bach, Chopin, Ravel, Castellanos and Carreno
Saturday, January 26th, 8pm
Concert with the Publikumsorchester at the Elbphilharmonie, Große Saal, Hamburg, Germany
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D flat Major, Op. 10
Piano: Emiliano Ramniceanu, Conductor: Michael Petermann
Saturday, January 19th, 8pm
Concert with the Publikumsorchester at Kulturpalast Hamburg, Germany
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D flat Major, Op. 10
Piano: Emiliano Ramniceanu, Conductor: Michael Petermann
Sunday, January 6th, 11am
Concert courtesy of Stiftung Flügel-Fundus at the Elbphilharmonie, Kleine Saal, Hamburg, Germany
Solo Piano Recital with works from Bach, Liszt, Chopin, Albeniz and Scriabin
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