Claudiana Rotaru

The Romanian singer, Claudiana Rotaru, comes from a musician’s family. She started her canto studies at Constanta Art High School, having Aida Abagief as her teacher. After she graduated from High School, Claudiana continued her studies at the National University of Music Bucharest, where she majored in Musical Interpretation at the Canto department under Prof. Iulian Baiasus; also studied with the renowned Romanian sopranos Arta Florescu and Mariana Nicolesco. She has perfected her studies taking Masterclass in Lied and Oratory at Vienna with Prof. Walter Moore, and in Leipzig with Regina Werner Dietrich.

Claudiana has held many chamber concerts as the lead singer in Germany (Bielefeld University, Hamburg, Dortmund, Lübeck, Paderborn, Münster, Köln, etc.), Austria (Vienna), Spain (Madrid, Coslada), France (Lyon), Italy (Rome, Torino), Bulgaria (Varna as guest and representative of Romania) and Croatia (Zagreb), Hungary (Debrecen) but also in Japan (as a guest in Tokyo in Katsushika Symphony Hills) and the USA (Atlanta Georgia Dome). In her home country of Romania, she often performed as a soloist and guest in many concert halls as collaborator with the orchestras Targu Mures, Pitesti, Ploiesti, Constanta, Valcea, Casa Radio and the Palace of the Romanian Parliament in Bucharest together with orchestras and chamber ensembles. As a guest, she has given concerts at the Leipzig University and the City Hall as well as at the Polish Institute and the Stasi Museum Leipzig.

Claudiana Rotaru also held charity concerts for helping children with disabilities, as well as charity concerts for the integration of the foreigners and the minorities. Her artistic activities have been broadcast with interest on TV, Radio, as well as Newspapers and Press.

She colaborated with renowned musicians like Shinya Ozaki, Adolf Winkler, Andrei Ionita, Cristian Mihai Dirnea, Georgeta Popescu and many other famous musicians resulting in recordings with religious and chamber music. Her repertoire includes oratorios and passions of Johann Sebastian Bach (Johannespassion, Matthäuspassion, Osteroratorium, Magnificat, Weihnachtsoratorium and various cantatas), Georg Friedrich Händel (Messias, Josua, Judas Maccabäus Israel in Ägypten, 9 Deutsche Arien), Antonio Vivaldi (Gloria, Magnificat, Motetten: Laudate pueri, Nulla in mundo pax sincera), G. P. Telemann (Lauter Wonne, lauter Freude; Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland), Joseph Haydn (Die Schöpfung), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Exultate Jubilate, Laudate Dominum, Missa in c-Moll), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Paulus), as well as songs by Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johannes Brahms, Gabriel Faure and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, but also international spiritual songs.

Claudiana Rotaru writes as a composer songs and also poetry in Romanian, her native language.