Concerts in Old Schlosskirche Schöneiche

Maria‐Magdelena Pitu‐Jokisch was born in Bucharest in 1974. She began playing the piano at the age of 6. From 1980 to 1992, she attended the “G. Enescu” Music High School in Bucharest, where she subsequently studied for two years at the Academy of Music. In 1994, she moved to Berlin and studied piano as her major at the Berlin University of the Arts under Professors Hans Leygraf and Martin Hughes, graduating with distinction in 2001. She then began a supplementary program in concert piano at the “Hans Eisler” Academy of Music in Berlin under Professor Georg Sava, which she completed with honors in early 2005. During her musical training, she participated in international competitions and won, among others, third prize at the “G. Enescu” Competition and first prize at the “Pacem in Terris” Competition. She has already performed at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall with the Hohenfels Orchestra and has given concerts, radio performances, and solo recitals in Bucharest, Athens, Berlin, Darmstadt, Helsinki, Salzburg, Strasbourg, and Tokyo. She is currently active as a concert pianist and piano instructor.

The Japanese concert pianist received much of her musical training in Germany, studying at the Hanns Eisler School in Berlin. Her mastery of an unusually wide range of repertoire, from the baroque to the contemporary, including world premieres of new works, has ensured that she is in demand as both soloist and chamber musician across Europe and Asia. Critics delight in the meditative, intimate atmosphere her performances evoke as well as her virtuosic dexterity and scintillating technique.