Mina Beldimanescu

Born in Bucharest, Romania, Mina Beldimanescu’s performances as soloist have also included, throughout the years, recitals and solo performances with orchestras at the Romanian Atheneum and the George Enescu Museum in Bucharest, Middle Temple Hall and St. James's Church Piccadilly in London, the Romanian Cultural Institutes in Budapest, Paris and London. She also appears regularly as a chamber musician in the Spain and the United States.

Mina is a prize winner of competitions such as the International Piano Competition, the Val Tidone International Music Competition, the International Piano Competition 'Evangelia Tjiarri', and Larnaka - Grand Prix. In London she has also been awarded the Lilian Davies Prize, the Douglas Cameron Prize, and Harold Craxton Prize. In 2009, she was awarded 1st Prize in the National Music Competition organised by the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research. In 2010 she was a scholar of the SoNoRo-Interferente chamber music project, which enabled her to perform with Bernhard Naoki Hedenborg as chamber music partner.

Mina Beldimanescu studied under Carmen Enescu at the Dinu Lipatti Music High School in Bucharest. In 2013 she obtained her Bachelor's degree with distinction (DipRam) at the Royal Academy of Music in the class of Diana Ketler. and in 2015, she obtained her Master of Performance degree with Distinction, graduating from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama as a student of Philip Jenkins. She has participated in masterclasses with renowned pianists such as Boris Berman, Emanuel Krasovsky, Pavel Gililov, Nikolai Demidenko and Yevgeny Sudbin.  

Together with the Arcana Ensemble, Mina is a Concordia Foundation Artist.