about me

Pianist Roxana Ioana Cîrciu is a versatile musical personality, active as a chamber musician, festival organizer, soloist, and pedagogue. Her playing has been praised in the press for its “breathtaking virtuosity” and “parlando-like expressiveness of tone.”

 

At the heart of Roxana’s recent performance activity is her piano duo with Andrei Gologan. Acclaimed for their “technical perfection and breathtaking beauty of sound,” the duo performs regularly across Europe. Recent highlights include engagements at the Schubertiade RTS in Sion, the Mozart Festival in Sicily, Musikfreunde Coburg, SoNoRo Musikland in Transylvania, and the Ocean Sun Festival in Turku, as well as various radio broadcasts and performances in venues such as the Stiftung Mozarteum in Salzburg, Konzerthaus Solothurn, Stift Ossiach, the National Radio Hall in Bucharest, and the Vienna Rathaus.

 

A passionate advocate for innovative concert formats, Roxana co-founded ONLINE: concerts & talks, a virtual concert series created in cooperation with Austrian broadcaster FS1 in response to the suspension of live performances during the COVID-19 pandemic. Active throughout 2020 and 2021, the project featured a total of 25 streamed concerts and brought together over 60 musicians from across Europe. In 2024, she co-funded the international Buzz Chamber Music Festival in Obertrum am See, Austria. Heading into its third edition in April 2026, the festival presents classical chamber music through a fresh, interdisciplinary lens and actively engages with new audiences.

 

Born in Romania, Roxana began her musical education with Elisabeta Andreescu and Prof. Dr. Felicia Stancovici, herself a student of legendary Florica Musicescu. A series of first prizes at national and international piano competitions led to Roxana’s orchestral debut at age 16 with the Banat Philharmonic Orchestra, performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 37, followed by concert engagements in Germany, Austria, Hungary, and throughout Romania. Shortly thereafter, she was accepted into the renowned Mozarteum University in Salzburg, where she studied with pianists Stan Ford and Imre Rohmann and graduated with distinction in 2020.

 

Roxana Ioana Cîrciu currently lives in Salzburg, Austria, where she mentors a new generation of pianists as a faculty member at Musikum Salzburg.