Dana Ciocarlie
Dana Ciocarlie (born 26 November 1968) is a French pianist and teacher of music of Romanian origin. Life. Born in Bucharest, Ciocarlie began her musical studies at the Bucharest Conservatory and won her first prize in 1990. She came to work at the École normale de musique de Paris with Viktoria Melki (a student of Alfred Cortot) for her concert diploma, then perfected her skills with Dominique Merlet and Georges Pludermacher for two years at the Conservatoire de Paris as well as with Christian Zacharias and Dmitri Bashkirov. She then participated in various competitions: winner of the Yamaha  Foundation (1993), the Cziffra Foundation (1994), auditions of young artists in Leipzig (1995), and won the Pro Musicis prize in 1996 (prize of the Yvonne Lefébure foundation), the same year than the Robert Schumann International Competition for Pianists and Singers in Zwickau (2nd place) and the Géza Anda Competition the following year in Zurich (special Sándor Végh prize). She has played with violinists Gilles Apap, Nicolas Dautricourt, Laurent Korcia, Irina Muresanu; pianists Christian Zacharias, Philippe Bianconi and Anne Queffélec; with violist Gérard Caussé and the Talich Quartet. She has premiered numerous contemporary works dedicated to her by Édith Canat de  Chizy, Karol Beffa, Nicolas Bacri, Stéphane Delplace, Dan Dediu, Jacques Lenot, Laurent Mettraux, Frédéric Verrières and Helena Winkelman. Ciocarlie is a teacher at the Conservatoire national supérieur musique et danse de Lyon (chamber music) and the École normale de Paris.