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IRINA IORDACHESCU

SOPRANO

Soprano Irina Iordachescu was born in Bucharest, on the 9th of March, 1977, in a family of musicians.

In 2000 she graduated the Academy of Music in Bucharest, at the singing class of professor Maria Slatinaru Nistor and the lieder-oratorio class of professor Dan Iordachescu.

Starting with 1997 she has been a laureate of national singing competitions, such as "Mihail Jora" (Second Prize) and "Ionel Perlea" (Grand Prize). She is also a laureate of international singing competitions such as

“G.B. Viotti” - Italia, Prize “Cesare Bardelli”; “Silvia Geszty” - Spain, Third Prize; “Maria Callas” - Greece, Third Prize; “Vincenzo Bellini” - Italy, Second Prize; “IVC s’Hertogenbosch” - Olanda, Third Prize and the Prize of the Public.

The year 2000 will bring the debut of soprano Irina Iordachescu on the stage of the Bucharest National Opera, in the role of Pamina from W.A. Mozart’s "Die Zauberflote", and in 2001 she will make her international debut on the stage of the "Dante Alighieri" Theatre in Ravenna, in the role of Giulietta from "I Capuleti e I Montecchi" by Vincenzo Bellini, in the Musical Festival of Ravenna, Italy.

Also in 2001 she is invited to sing in two vocal-symphonic concerts on the stage of the "Teatro alla Scala" from Milan, Italy, under the musical direction of Maestro Riccardo Muti, with the Orchestra and the Choir of "La Scala". In the same concerts, she will also sing in the "Tourneo nei paesi dell’Est" (Armenia, Turkey and Polland) of the Orchestra and Choir of "La Scala", under the musical direction of Maestro Riccardo Muti.

Soprano Irina Iordachescu is engaged in a rich concertistical activity, carried out in cameral recitals and concerts with vocal-symphonic works of great breadth, such as

Mozart’s "Exultate, jubilate", “Requiem” and the "c minor messe", Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis” and “The Ninth Symphony”, Haydn’s “Nelson Messe”, Brahms’s “German Requiem”, Dvorak’s “Requiem”, Paul Constantinescu’s "The Byzantine Christmas Oratory", together with prestigious Romanian orchestras, such as the "George Enescu Philarmonic Orchestra" and the "National Radio Orchestra" in Bucharest, the "Banatul" Philarmonic Orchestra in Timisoara, "Oltenia" from Craiova, "Black Sea" from Constanta, the State Philarmonics from Sibiu and Oradea, and from abroad: the Symphonic Orchestra from Mulhouse (France), "L’Estro Armonico" from Luxembourg, Orchestra Clasica "Ciudad de Murcia" (Spain), the State Philarmonic Orchestra from Salonic (Greece), the "Veneta" Philarmonic Orchestra from Italy and the "Brabants Orchestra" from Holland.

In Romania and abroad, she has performed under the musical direction of great musical directors such as Riccardo Muti, Cyril Diederich, Claire Gibault, Ivan Anguelov, Julian Kovatchef, Daffydd Bullock, Nicolas Astrinidis, Christoph Adt, Cristian Mandeal, Rasvan Cernat, Gheorghe Costin, Lucian Anca, Florentin Mihaescu, Constantin Petrovici, Ilarion Ionescu-Galati, Tiberiu Soare, Acel Ervin, Iurie Florea, Iosif Prunner.

In the recent years she has been invited to sing in concerts and festivals in Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, Greece, and together with Maestro Gheorghe Zamfir she has performed in the United States of America

(New York - Carnegie Hall and Chicago) and in Israel (Tel Aviv, Jerusalim and Haifa).

Since 2005 soprano Irina Iordachescu has been a soloist of the Bucharest National Opera, on whose stage she has rendered high class interpretations of the roles Lucia from Lucia di Lammermoor by G. Donizetti, Gilda from Rigoletto by G. Verdi, Fiordiligi from Cosi fan tutte by W.A. Mozart, Pamina from Cosi fan tutte by W.A. Mozart.