Dida Condria

Romanian/Irish pianist Dida Condria, 22, has performed in prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Perth Concert Hall, Brasov Filarmonic and the National Concert Hall of Ireland. Dida is currently pursuing her MPerf at the Royal College of Music, gratefully awarded the RCM C.H. Scholarship under the tutelage of Prof. Vanessa Latarche, alongside the generous support of Irish Heritage, Drake Calleja Trust and the Countess of Munster Trust. A 2025 graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with first-class honours, Dida studied with Prof. Aaron Shorr as an ABRSM Scholar. She began her musical studies with Prof. Reamonn Keary at the Royal Irish Academy of Music at the age of 6.

A BBC Young Musician Keyboard Finalist and winner of the BBC Walter Todds Bursary 2022, Dida is a laureate of numerous international competitions, including 1st prize in the Edinburgh Festival Concerto Competition and Scottish International Youth Piano Competition, and 2nd prize and the Audience Prize at the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe Intercollegiate Competition. Dida was recently awarded the 2025 McCullough Bursary and the Charles Brennan Prize for the highest placed Irish competitor in the triennial Dublin International Piano Competition. She was also awarded the 2025 Irish Heritage Music Bursary and the 2026 Blackwater Valley Opera Festival Bursary Award.

The winner of the Dublin Philharmonic Society Prize, Dida was part of RIAM’s Young Scholar Programme, the Eversheds Sutherland Accelerator Academy and DIPC William Finlay Programme. She has performed extensively across the UK and Ireland, as well as Ireland’s national radio station RTE Lyric FM, and has had the pleasure of performing in New York, Spain, Italy, Lithuania, Switzerland and Romania. Her festival appearances include Madrid Atempo, London Prokofiev Festival, West Cork Chamber Music Festival, and Vivace Vilnius.

Dida has performed with multiple orchestras throughout the UK and Ireland and has also toured around Romania in a Rachmaninoff Anniversary Concert Tour, a collaboration between the RCS and the Purcell School of Music. With an affinity for 20th century Russian and also contemporary music, she has been praised for her ‘incredible performances and spellbinding renditions' of Sadie Harrison's piano works (University of York Music Press). A keen interest in free improvisation has led her to work closely with esteemed Estonian free improviser Anto Pett. Her musical journey has been inspired by masterclasses with world-renowned pianists including Stephen Hough, Boris Berman, Dmitri Alexeev, Elizabeth Leonskaja, Steven Osborne, Simon Trpceski, Noriko Ogawa and Arie Vardi.

She is also an avid chamber musician and song pianist, winning the RCS Dunbar-Gerber Chamber Music Cup 2024, Mozart Concerto Prize and Alex Menzies Prize for the most outstanding lieder accompanist, and she regularly performs with various instrumentalists and singers across Ireland and the UK. Recent collaborations with Hastings International Piano have deepened her passion for community outreach projects, music education, and wellbeing through music.