Alina Bercu
Alina Elena Bercu (born 9 February 1990, in Câmpina, Prahova, Romania) is a Romanian concert pianist. Life. She started her first piano lessons at the age of 7 at the Arts School in her native town. In 1999 she settled with her family in Brasov, Transylvania, to study piano with Professor Stela Drăgulin from the Faculty of Music. Aged only 16, she passed the entrance examination at the Franz Liszt Music University in Weimar, Germany, becoming Grigory Gruzman’s student. She attends in parallel the courses of the National College Andrei Saguna in Brasov. She gave her first  concert with an orchestra at only 9, and soon performed at noted stages in Europe, America and Asia including: The Romanian Athenaeum and Mihail Jora Studio from the Radio Broadcast Hall in Bucharest, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Teo Otto Theater - Remscheid, Prinzregententheater München, Musikhalle-Hamburg, Auditorium - Rome, Tonhalle Zürich, Carnegie Hall and Theatre du Vevey. Bercu has given more than 200 concerts with widely known orchestras and made recordings for several European broadcasters.