Madelaine Pitu

Madelaine Pitu was born in Bucharest and began piano lessons at six. After training at the George Enescu specialist music school and the Bucharest Academy of Music, she continued her studies in Berlin.

She studied with Hans Leygraf and Martin Hughes at Berlin University of the Arts and completed her Konzertexamen with distinction under Georg Sava at the Hanns Eisler School of Music. Concert appearances have taken her to Athens, Berlin, Helsinki, Salzburg, Strasbourg and Tokyo.

She works as a concert pianist and piano teacher. Alongside solo programmes, chamber music has an important place in her work. In the Rodur Trio Berlin, she performs with violinist Junko Fukabori and cellist Louise von Schweinitz.