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David Irimescu is an Italian-Romanian pianist winner of 70 National and International Competitions and Festivals prizes, as well as Amadeus Factory, the only italian talent-competition dedicated to classical music and produced by Sky TV in collaboration with the magazine “Amadeus”.
Praised for his early musical maturity and sound care, as well as for his “trascendental pianism” and “big conquering musical abilities”, David Irimescu has attended masterclasses and lessons held by internationally renowned musicians, including Gavrailova, Entremont, Achucarro, Béroff, Rana, Madzar, Delle Vigne-Fabbri, Scalafiotti, Voghera, Plano, Susan Shu-Chen Lin, Chin Chuan Chang, Chi Wu, Bidini, Fitenko, Pace, Butzberger, Martinez-Mehner, Lipstein, Pisarenko, Durso, Alexander Gadjiev, Siavush Gadjiev, Miazzon, Schnyder, Mazzola, Rouvier, Karayev, Ovtcharov, Poblocka, Gililov, Bloch, Devastato, Engeli, Shereshevskaya and Noam Sivan for Piano Improvisation.
Already guest of important concert companies, has performed in Europe and USA, receiving always excellent public as well as critical acclaim. Also active in the chamber music field, he has played in various ensembles with piano, voice, strings and winds, as well as with orchestras; was selected to represent as soloist his school (Liceo Cavour from Turin, top marks) with the Italian National Musical High School Orchestra, as and his Conservatory (Giuseppe Verdi, Turin) opening its musical season performing Tchaikovsky’s Concerto n. 1, and receiving a special scholarship for the best student from the piano department.
Has been appointed by the “Cavour” Music High School in Turin as professor of a special piano course, Conservatory’s entrance-exam oriented, for complimentary piano students.
In 2018, David Irimescu has to stop his musical activities for health problems, and starts studying in detail physiology of body and movements and the interaction between psyche and physical inclinations, with the help of disciplines such as Feldenkrais, Taubmann, Posturology, Psychology, Phenomenology, Mindfulness, Mental Coaching, Kinesiology, Sat Nam Rasayan, Sound therapy, Craniosacral, Reiki and others. While rehabilitating, develops a pure love for teaching, therapy and sharing with others the results of his due research. Focusing on the musician’s well-being, continues to gather and integrate information, with the objective of spreading knowledge among all interested people and preventing students from hurting themselves, facilitating instead their personal expression.
In 2023 David resumes giving concerts and graduates from Turin Conservatory under the guidance of maestro Claudio Voghera with top marks cum laude and special mention of honour, receives the “Bacewicz International Prize 2023” at the Penderecki Institute in Krakòw and starts a collaboration with Unione Musicale in Turin. In 2024 he’s awarded a scholarship as best student from the Conservatory, is granted scholarships to attend the University of Georgia (USA) in an international project in the class of Alan Woo, to take part into the Advanced Piano Course with Enrico Pace at Accademia di Pinerolo and with Vovka Ashkenazy at Rossetti Academy in Lugano, and is awarded a Scholarship from PluS foundation (Basel) to attend the Master in Piano at Basel Musik Akademie under the tutelage of Filippo Gamba and Tobias Schabenberger. David is a scholarship holder of Regione Piemonte, Fondazione Cecilia Gilardi, Associazione De Sono and Monetti Award. Further accomplishments are the entitlement of the Progetto Musica 2024 scholarship awarded by Gloria Campaner, the admission by Alexander Gadjiev to take part into his festival “Sconfinamenti”, the Sunrise Prize awarded by Camerata Ducale, the Scarlatti Prize (Trapani) and Mozart Prize (Vienna) and 30 more awards. He was recently invited to present his research theses—“Schoenberg and the Research of Primordial Consciousness” at the Turin Conservatory, and “Scriabin and the Elemental Poem” (winner of the Music City Lab Prize 2025) at MDW in Vienna during the Lange Nacht der Forschung. He has also been invited to serve as an honorary jury member in international competitions. He holds a Master’s degree from the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi di Torino, graduating with 110 e lode and receiving a special mention from the director.
Serving Music, he is dedicated as a musician to create a sincere musical fruition during concerts and, as teacher and therapist, to sensibilize people to access more of themselves. He holds Music Listening seminars and events to bring listeners closer to the emotional and descriptive resources that lie deep down in them. The mission is to reset the coincidence between music and well-being through awareness, sensitivity and knowledge.