Gabriel Teclu

Born in 1976 in Bucharest, he received his first piano lessons at the age of seven and a half with Veronica Gaspar. From the age of ten, he was already performing as a soloist, won several national competitions and even played with the Romanian National Orchestra in a concert broadcast live on television.

In 1991, he settled in Belgium and continued his studies at the Conservatoire Royal de Liège, where he successively obtained the highest distinctions in the classes of Jo Alfidi and François Thiry for piano. He also received the Grand Prix de piano at the Conservatoire International de musique de Paris with Colette Lassance and Pascal Godart. In addition, he benefited from the advice of Alan Weiss and followed an advanced course of high level training with Bruno Mezzena in Pescara, Italy.

Since 2001, he has been invited to perform as a soloist or chamber musician in Belgium, notably at the Palais des Beaux Arts Bruxelles and with the OPRL, as well as in Luxembourg, France, Romania, Italy and England. In 2006, he won first prize at the Grétry Competition and third prize at the International San Marino Competition.

Invited as a soloist to the Durbuy music festival, he distinguished himself in a concert where he shared the stage with Abdel Rahman El Bacha. He is also invited together with his wife, the soprano Andreea Minculescu, to give concerts in Romania and Belgium, centred on the works of Schumann and the great operatic arias.

Alongside his concert activity, he devotes himself passionately to teaching. He gives masterclasses in Romania and France and teaches piano and chamber music at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles and at the Conservatoire Royal de Liège as lecturer, guest speaker and professor. During his pedagogical career, he was assistant to François Thiry at the Conservatoire Royal de Liège and to Jean Claude Vanden Eyden and Dominique Cornil at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles. He currently works in close collaboration with Johan Schmidt, Mickaël Faerman and Eliane Reyes at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles. Since 2010, he has been a member of the jury of the Concours de piano de Liège.

He has taken part in various television programmes on RTBF and radio broadcasts, notably on Musique3, including Table d’écoute and concert broadcasts. He has regularly shared the stage as a soloist or in duo with Laurence Koch, Sebastien Walnier and Thibault Lavrenov at the Festival de Stavelot and at Flagey within the framework of the Festival de Wallonie.

In 2012, he performed the complete Études by Frédéric Chopin during the Concerts de Midi at the Salle Académique of the Université de Liège, where he is a regular guest. In 2015, he formed a two piano duo with Johan Schmidt and they made their successful concert debut. In 2017, their first CD was released under the label Azur Classical.

In 2017, he was invited as a soloist by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Ploiesti in Romania to perform the Grieg concerto.