Born in Romania in 1988 into a musical family, pianist Dinu Mihailescu is established in Lausanne (Switzerland) since 2020.
During his academic career, he studied at the Haute Ecole de Musique in Geneva having had as mentors Prof. Dominique Weber and Cédric Pescia. He also had the opportunity to study with renowned pedagogues such as Leon Fleisher, Dmitri Bashkirov, Menahem Pressler and Paul Coker.
He is a PhD holder thanks to his doctoral research on a specific repertoire for piano by Béla Bartók.
Dinu has performed as a concert artist with the main orchestras in Romania, as well as with the Orchestra of the HEM of Geneva and the Orchestra of the Festival of Gijón-Candás. He was invited to perform in renowned international festivals such as the Verbier Festival UNLTD, Lavaux Classic, Millennium Piano Festival of Gijón (Spain), Puplinge Classique (Switzerland) among other.
In Switzerland, he has performed in important venues such as the Menuhin Forum in Bern, the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Ansermet Studio of the Swiss Radio and Television (Geneva), the Franz Liszt Hall of the Conservatoire de Musique and Alhambra in Geneva.
He toured in the U.S. at MSU’s Cook Hall, Detroit’s Steinway Gallery Hall and New York’s RCI.
In 2021, with his duo OXY MORE he recorded a CD with an innovative repertoire for 2 pianos, at the Rosey Concert Hall in Rolle (Switzerland). The duo collaborated in 2024 with the renowned Korean jazz singer Youn Sun Nah in a cross-over project combining classical and jazz.
This talented young musician has also been awarded numerous prizes, within the most relevant are the 2nd Prize at the International “Béla Bartók” Piano Competition in Szeged (Hungary, 2017), and the Rotary Club Award for Excellence for his participation in Art and Culture in Romania.
Dinu Mihailescu is combining his career as a performer with teaching, being a piano faculty at the Popular Conservatory of Music, Dance and Theater in Geneva and at the Music School of Lausanne (Switzerland), and he is increasingly dedicated to mixing classical and modern repertoire with contemporary piano repertoire.
In October 2025 he will perform the ROmerican Avant-Garde program at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall.