RUCSANDRA POPESCU

Rucsandra Popescu is a composer, choir conductor and pianist who lives in Bremen, but completed her first music education in her home town Bucharest, Romania. Born into a family of musicians, her father and mother being instrumentalists and also her brother, a well known jazz drummer Vlad Popescu, her godfather the composer Horia Moculescu, Rucsandra Popescu approached the world of sounds at the early age of 6, and started studying piano... She graduated from the Dinu Lipatti Music High School - Bucharest and was ranked among the first three best students in her school year. In 2004 she graduated from the Music University in Bucharest with three degrees: in Composition, Music pedagogy and Academic Choir Conductor. During her study she had a special scholarship for best academic results. She studied composition with Octavian Nemescu, Dan Dediu, piano with Oana Velcovici and choir conducting with Valentin Gruescu. In 2004 she was awarded the prize for the best academic results by the..