Luiza Borac

Luiza Borac is among the most prominent pianists in contemporary Romania. She specializes in the music of composer George Enescu and pianist-composer Dinu Lipatti but also performs a wide range of non-Romanian repertory. Borac was born in the university town of Pitesti, Romania, in 1968. She took up the piano at four and was sent to a school for musically gifted children in Bucharest. After winning the highest honors at the Bucharest Music Academy, she benefited from Romania's opening to the West in the early 1990s, earning a grant from the Chopin Society that allowed her to ...