ABOUT

Romanian pianist Teodora Oprișor specializes in collaborating with singers. Passionate about the Art Song repertoire, Teodora has performed recitals in major venues and festivals such as the Wigmore Hall in London, Musikverein in Vienna, Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, Schubertíada Vilabertran and the Musée d’Orsay  in Paris.  Her performances have been broadcast on BBC 4, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, the National Romanian Television and the National Spanish Television. 

She is a former scholar of the Heidelberg Lied Academy, the Académie Orsay-Royaumont and the Yehudi Menuhin LIFE Music Now Foundation. She  has also been awarded the best piano accompanist at the John Warner Singing competition in Chichester (United Kingdom) and the Robert Schumann Song Competition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In May 2023 she was awarded the Associateship of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) for making a significant contribution in the musical field.

Having studied piano performance with Szokolay Balázs at the Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT in Weimar (Germany), she then pursued her Master’s Degree in Piano Accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music in London under the tutelage of Prof. Michael Dussek and James Baillieu. She received the DipRAM title for an outstanding performance on her Postgraduate final recital. Back in Weimar, she crowned her studies with a  Konzertexamen in Liedgestaltung in the class of Prof. Thomas Steinhöfel, graduating with Distinction in 2020. Additionally, she took masterclasses with distinguished musicians such as singers Thomas Hampson, Christoph Prégardien, Véronique Gens, KS Edda Moser and pianists Malcom Martineau, Graham Johnson, Susan Manoff, Gerold Huber and Hartmut Höll. 

Passionate about discovering hidden song treasures, during her Konzertexamen she undertook a research project in collaboration with the Music Archive of Thuringia. With her project Weimarer Liederschule she is keen to reveal and reintroduce in the standard song repertoire works by less well-known composers of the 20th century.

Teodora is currently based in San Sebastian (Spain), where she has served as pianist of the Orfeón Donostiarra choir for five years. At the same time, between 2021-2023 Teodora was teaching Song Accompaniment at her Alma mater, the Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT Weimar, as part of the Thuringian Funding Programme for young scientists and artists. From the 2024-25 academic year , she is Accompanying Pianist Professor at the Reina Sofía School of Music’s ‘Alfredo Kraus’ Fundación Ramón Areces Voice Chair.