CONSERVATORY of MUSIC
Bianca BaCIU
About
Dr. Bianca Baciu has led an active career as soloist, chamber musician and pedagogue and has received numerous awards including the University of Ottawa Marusia Yaworska Award for the most talented musician in Canada and the prestigious Izaak Walton Killam PhD Scholarship for research at the University of Alberta under Dr. Jacques Despres. Her book, Death of the Author: A Tribute, discussing postmodernism in Jack Behrens's piano music, was released in 2008 by VDM Publishing in Germany.
Dr. Baciu has served as the ARMTA Edmonton Artistic Director of the Northern Alberta Concerto Competition and the Young Artist liaison. She has offered workshops for ARMTA and APTA, and is a RCM Certified Advanced Specialist. A dedicated teacher and sought-after clinician and adjudicator, she has taught at "Transylvania" University in Romania, the University of Western Ontario in London and the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
Dr. Baciu currently teaches piano and piano literature at the Alberta College Campus, Grant MacEwan University, and also maintains a full private studio in Edmonton. Her students have won numerous national and international awards and scholarships. In 2017, she became a certified mindfulness instructor, dedicated to the study of body and mind awareness in competitive piano performance.
READ BIANCA'S ARTICLE ABOUT PERFORMANCE WELLNESS
Lessons
Bianca offers piano lessons from her private studio located on the south side of Edmonton in the MacTaggart area. Lessons are also available online.
She teaches students ages 5 to adult who have a strong commitment to learning classical piano for all levels including RCM Level 1 to ARCT and LRCM. Students can look forward to performance recitals. She also specializes in Body Mapping, Perfoming Arts Medicine, and Conditioning for Performers.
Request lessons with Bianca to discuss lesson availability and rates.
Education
- Diploma in Advanced Pedagogy (1999) - Transylvania University, Brasov, Romania
- Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance (2000) - Transylvania University, Brasov, Romania
- Master's in Piano Performance (2002) - University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
- Doctorate in Piano Performance (2006) - University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Certification
- RCM Advanced Specialist and Examiner
- Certified Performing Arts Medicine Educator
- Licensed Body Mapping Educator
- Certified Somatic Trauma Therapist
- Certified SSP Provider
- Certified Somatic Stress-Release Practitioner
- Certified Mindfulness Instructor
Performances / compositions / recordings
Dr. Baciu's live performances have been broadcast on CBC Radio 2 and CKUA (Canada), WDR (Koln, Germany), and Radio Romania Tineret (Romania). In 1998, she recorded her first CD featuring works by Beethoven, Brahms and Ravel, released under the patronage of The Romanian Embassy in Bonn, Germany.
After moving to Canada in 2000, she completed a series of recording projects featuring solo and chamber music works by Canadian composers, and in 2006, she recorded a world premiere CD featuring piano solo works by Canadian composer Jack Behrens at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Her CD presenting Behrens's Homages for piano solo was released by Centaur Records in 2008.
She frequently performs as a soloist and collaborative artist nationally and internationally.
Awards / grants / fellowships
- University of Ottawa Marusia Yaworska Award for the most talented musician in Canada
- Izaak Walton Killam PhD Scholarship for research at the University of Alberta