"A reflexive artistic nature, music criti Elena Zottoviceanu writes, sche belongs to that category of pianists filtering their emotional impulse through a bright intelligence. I intuit a performer with a modern spirit in Alexandra Costin, capable of expressing her own viewpoint in the music she communicates. Her exceptional talent is supported by a remarkable sense of construction, also apparent in performing the pieces on her debut CD, so different stylistically. This true key test of the styles in convincingly passed by the pianist.

Born in Bucharest on May 13th 1980, Alexandra Costin graduated from the National Univeristy of Music in Bucharest, the class of professor Dana Borsan. In the 1995 - 2002 period, she studied as a scholarship holder at the Summer Academy in Cervo, Italy (1995) with professor Arnuff von Arnim from the Academy of Music Dortmund, Germany, at the International Academy of Music in Nice, France in 1999 and 2000, with professor Brigitte Engerer from the National Higher Conservatoire of Music in Paris, at Wiener Music Seminar (Austria 2001 - 2002) with professor Krassimira Jordan from Bayler University, Texas, the USA. In the 2002 - 2003 academic year, she had an ERASMUS scholarship studying with professor Joh. Christoph Lieske at the "Mozarteum" University of Music in Salzburg.

Winner of national and international competitions, Alexandra Costin has given concerts accompanied by the Philharmonic Orchestras in Bacau, Ploiesti, Oredea, Arad, Targu Mures, Craiova, Timisoara, by the Radio Chamber Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of Maracaibo (Venezuela), the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, as well as numerous recitals at home and abroad, in Austria, Germany, France, Greece.

(Costin Tuchila)