Biography

Kira Frolu was born in Romania in 2000. She started playing the piano at the age of six and pursued a specialized musical education at the Dinu Lipatti Music College in Bucharest, falling in love with the instrument from an early age. Since 2015, she has studied with Prof. William Fong, first at the Purcell School for Young Musicians, then continued with him at the Royal Academy of Music in London for her Bachelor’s Degree. Currently she’s doing her postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music under the guidance of Prof. Ian Fountain. 

Kira has participated in masterclasses with musicians such as Elisabeth Leonskaja, Natalia Trull, Stephen Kovacevich, Marios Papadopoulos, Grigory Gruzman, Dmitri Alexeev, Yong Hi Moon, Pascal Devoyon, Noriko Ogawa and Bernd Goetzke, among others. She’s a scholarship holder of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein, where she regularly takes part in the intensive weeks and activities of the academy.

Since 2019, Kira has been supported by the EMCY foundation, following her success in the „Pianale“ competition in Germany, where she was awarded several prizes, including the audience prize and the city of Fulda prize. She is also a laureate of the „Vladimir Krainev Competition“ in Ukraine and the „Evangelia Tjarri Competition“ in Cyprus, among several other national and international prizes. 

Kira has given solo recitals at prestigious concert halls around Europe, including Wigmore Hall, Milton Court, St. Martin in the Fields and St. James Piccadilly in London, the Fazioli piano factory in Sacile and the Radio Hall, Arcub and Atheneum in Bucharest. 

She has collaborated with the Romanian National Radio, giving live-broadcast recitals and performing with the National Radio Chamber Orchestra. Her most recent concerto performance with them took place in 2022 in the Radio Hall in Bucharest and she has also appeared with orchestras in the UK, Ukraine, Poland and Bulgaria. 

Kira has been featured on BBC Radio 3 in the Notturno program, as well as several National Radio channels in Romania, after winning the Radio Romania Musical’s Award in 2022. 

In summer 2021, Kira’s Artual Association, wholeheartedly supported by family and friends, launched the PianoStar festival for young pianists in Romania, with the aim of helping them broaden their musical horizons and bringing the opportunity to work with an international faculty of renowned professors and pianists.

Kira is generously supported by The Munster Trust and Help Musicians UK, as well as an entrance scholarship awarded by the Academy.