Biography :

Born in Bucharest, in a family of musicians, Oxana Corjos started studying piano at a very early age, being taught by Ana Pitis and Ioana Minei, graduating afterwards The Bucharest University of Music where she had the privilege to be guided by the exceptional maestro Dan G r i g o r e.

Laureate of Senigallia Competition (1981, 1983), Barcelona (1984), Rome (1991) she was honored with the "Cella Delavrancea" prize for merits in the cultural field during the year 1992 and a merit diploma for "Incontri Internazionali di Musica Classica" Sorrento (1993).

She was invited in many radio and television programs, she made special recordings for the Romanian National Radio Station performing works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mussorgski, Debussy, R. Strauss, Prokofiev etc., some of them being taken over by the Brussels National Radio Station.

Parallel to her concert performances she also teaches at the University of Music in Bucharest. Considered to be one of the most prominent figures of the pianist landscape of her generation, Oxana Corjos is one of the few Romanian
musicians affirmed after 1990 through a far reaching concert activity with an impressive repertoire - from Bach and Mozart to Rachmaninov and Richard Strauss - being especially appreciated for her performance of the two Brahms concertos.

She performed in more than 80 concerts with important Romanian and foreign conductors - Emil Simon, Gheorghe Costin, Petre Sbƒrcea, Ovidiu Balan, Ludovic Bacs, Corneliu Dumbraveanu, Cem Mansur, Adrian Sunshine, Jan Stulen, Frederic Rabemanjara, Fumio Akizaki, Fillipo Torre, Menesi Gergely, Laszlo Rooth, Benjamin Ashkenazy etc. - and prestigious ensembles of Romania: "George Enescu" Bucharest Philharmonic, The National Radio Orchestra, The Chamber Radio Orchestra and the Philharmonic Orchestra from Cluj, Iasi, Timisoara etc. Lately, Oxana Corjos performed at famous concert halls abroad (Italy, Spain, Moldavia Republic, Switzerland), the most recent appearance, with solo recital, being at Tonhalle -Grosser Saal in Zurich.

Credits :

The revelation of this evening was the young pianist Oxana Corjos, who managed to touch us, leading us into the strange world of Prokofiev\'s lyricism, throwing into relief with great sensitivity the different levels of the composition she plays, with spirit and great expressiveness\" (Meridian Newspaper, December 1992, Oltea ¦erban Pƒrƒu).

". Mrs. Oxana Corjos, the noble gestured pianist, perfectly skilled in the four Preludes of Debussy, her mastering is controlled tempo of the intimate color fullness of the timbre, of the technical details though fluent and bursting of emotion and splendid skilled on the arpeggios of the" Feux d\'artifice" (Giornali di Sorrento, August 1993, Paola de Simone).

"It would be real joy for us always listening such an interpretation to Ciaccona by Bach . This is our fortune, our treasure as piano scope is concerned (.) Oxana Corjos - how wonderful she was.how she performed Ciaccona . all night I got obsessed by the way she played Bach, in Busoni's version." (Music and The World Performance - 1998, Iosif Sava). " Oxana Corjos is characterised by firmness and offhandedeness to which we can add a good sense of the musical tempo, a smart pursuit of the independence of the levels, a natural legato. In the Burlesque by Strauss she depicted the permanent alternation between calm and whirlining with a naturalness which inspires spontaneity \"(Actualitatea Muzicala Magazine, September 1998, Oltea ¦erban Pƒrƒu).

"I think that Oxana is the best piano soloist in Romania\" (Cotidianul Newspaper, July 2000, Dan Grigore).

".Oxana Corjos and her original vision of a Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini showed us Rachmaninov as being rather a contemporary of Prokofiev (.) than a disciple of Tchaikovsky. This young musician\'s piano performance has a certain incisive side that banishes the grandiloquence and sentimentalism of such concerted music" (Adevarul Newspaper, December 2001, Luminita Vartolomei).

".it is remarkable the ardor of her performance; ... as well as the intelligence of the musical support, the pianist aplomb so much needed in performing such a pretentious score - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" (Actualitatea Muzicala Magazine, January 2002, Dumitru Avakian).

"The concerto was dominated by a sense of an exquisite technique, led a romantic, meditative, introvert air, inducing the audience a feeling of calm and serenity. At one moment, the strong impression was that Oxana Corjos personified the very prototype of the romantic musician. A controlled balanced and powerful rubato, doubled by her brilliant interpretation (.) the unique musicality from cadence and the special elegant attitude of the two encores (.) confirmed, if needed, the fact that Oxana Corjos is a genuine musician, the concert experience could be noticed by her performing of more and more original interpretative versions\" (Ziarul de duminica Newspaper, February 2002, Daria Filimon).

".Her performing is full of colour and contrast, proving that she is not only an authentic professional, but also and primarily, a strong artistic personality. Her activity is full of swing and I predict for her a first class career\" (Bucharest, June 2002, Cristian Mandeal).