“This pure-blooded musician” (Die Rheinpfalz) whose “boundless virtuosity and strength of singing combine with a delicate sensitivity and spirituality” (Münchner Merkur), Professor at the National University of Music Bucharest, since 1990, concert soloist of the Radio Romania Orchestras and Choirs (2000-2018), and of the Oradea Philharmonic (1981-1990), completed in 2006 a unique project in Romania: The Complete Concertos for Piano and Orchestra by W. A. Mozart, performed in concert with the Radio Chamber Orchestra and on an album containing eight CDs.
Born in Cluj, she graduated from the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory in Bucharest and obtained a scholarship at the Berlin University of the Arts. She studied with Gabriel Amiraș, Georg Sava, Peter Florian and received the guidance of Hans Leygraf, Hélène Boschi and Dmitri Bashkirov.
Numerous prizes at national and international competitions and, above all, the Second Prize at the prestigious Robert Schumann International Competition in Zwickau, won at the age of 19, quickly propelled her onto the great concert stages.
For more than 50 years, the artist’s name has been constantly appearing on concert bills in 17 countries, in the programs of well-known festivals (in Bucharest, Potsdam, Faenza, Aberdeen, Cluj, Chisinau).
Over 950 concerts and recitals, and about 2000 minutes recorded for the Romanian Broadcasting Society, 14 CDs and two LPs released by Casa Radio, Eterna Records, KU Classics, Electrecord, collaborations with renowned conductors such as Cristian Măcelaru, Vladimir Uryupin, Julien Salemkour, Sascha Goetzel, Sébastien Rouland, Jochen Wehner, David Crescenzi, David Gimenez, Emil Tabakov, Horia Andreescu, Manfred Ramin, Christoph Adt, Joseph Domenech, Dejan Savić, Alexis Hauser, Cristian Mandeal, Daisuke Soga, Jin Wang, Emil Simon, Ludovic Bacs, Erwin Acel, Ovidiu Bălan, Mihai Agafiței, define Dana Borșan’s piano career.
Awarded by the Romanian music critics (1991, 1998, 2006), with the UNIMIR Prize (2019) and with the Order of Cultural Merit in the rank of Knight (2011), conferred by the President of Romania.
She has been invited to teach at the universities of Vienna, Paris, Stuttgart, Weimar, Oslo, Cork, Nuremberg (through the Erasmus programme), has given masterclasses in Essen, Wuppertal, Stuttgart, Catania and has participated in the juries of national and international competitions in Bayreuth-Weimar, Oslo, Hong Kong, Guérande, Bucharest, Cluj and Arad.
