Summer matinee with Dida Condria, Piano

Piano recital with 22 year old Romanian/Irish pianist, Dida Condria. Music will include:

Rachmaninoff: Selections from Etudes-Tableaux op.39: no. 7,8,9

Beethoven: Sonata no.31 in Ab major op.110

Bach/Kempff: Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g'mein BWV734

Chopin: Sonata no.3 in B minor

Biography

22 year old Romanian/Irish pianist Dida Condria has performed in venues across the globe such as Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Perth Concert Hall and the National Concert Hall of Ireland. Dida began her musical studies at the age of 6 with Prof. Reamonn Keary at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2025, where she studied with Prof. Aaron Shorr. An ABRSM Scholar, Dida is gratefully supported by the Drake Calleja Trust and Countess of Munster Trust, and is pursuing her MPerf on full scholarship at the Royal College of Music under the tutelage of Prof. Vanessa Latarche.

Dida was recently awarded the McCullough Bursary, and the Charles J. Brennan Prize for the highest placed Irish competitor in the 2025 Dublin International Piano Competition. She was awarded the 2025 Irish Heritage Music Bursary and the Blackwater Valley Opera Festival IH Bursary Award. A laureate of multiple international competitions, Dida was a Keyboard Finalist in the 2022 BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition and the winner of the BBC Walter Todds Bursary, won 1st prize in the Edinburgh Festival Concerto Competition and 2nd prize and the Audience Prize at the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe Intercollegiate Competition in Birmingham.

Dida has performed with numerous orchestras throughout the UK and Ireland and has had the pleasure of performing in prestigious festivals of music such as Madrid Atempo, Vivace Vilnius, London Prokofiev Festival, Walled City of Music Festival Derry, West Cork Chamber Music Festival and Blackwater Valley Opera Festival. She also toured around the UK and Romania in a Rachmaninoff Anniversary Concert Tour representing the Royal Conservatoire in collaboration with the Purcell School of Music. With an affinity for contemporary music, she has been praised for her ‘incredible performances and spellbinding renditions' of Sadie Harrison's piano works (University of York Music Press). A keen interest in free improvisation has led her to work closely with esteemed Estonian free improviser Anto Pett.

As the winner of the Dublin Philharmonic Society Prize, and member of both the Eversheds Sutherland Accelerator Academy and DIPC William Finlay Programme under the direction of Dr. John O’Conor, she has had the privelege to perform in prestigious venues across Ireland, as well as Ireland's national radio station RTE Lyric FM. Her musical journey has been inspired by masterclasses with renowned pianists such as Stephen Hough, Boris Berman, Elizabeth Leonskaja, Dmitri Alexeev, Paul Lewis, Muza Rubackyte, Steven Osborne, Simon Trpceski and Arie Vardi.

She regularly performs as a soloist across the UK and is an avid chamber musician, having performed with her piano trio at the American-Irish Historical Society in New York, and winning the RCS Dunbar-Gerber Chamber Music Cup 2024, RCS Mozart Concerto Prize and Alex Menzies Prize for the most outstanding lieder accompanist. She regularly performs with various singers and instrumentalists across Ireland and the UK. Recent collaborations with Hastings International Piano has led to a passion for community music, music education and wellbeing workshops.