She then settled permanently in France and simultaneously embarked on a career as an international soloist, performing a repertoire ranging from the Baroque period to the present day. Creation holding an important place in her career, Ancuza Aprodu has performed many first auditions of young composers as well as prestigious creators such as Hugues Dufourt, Richard Festinger, Enrico Correggia, Klaus Ager, Hiroshi Nakamura, Dieter Acker, Marlos Nobre, Daniel Teruggi, Jean-Claude Risset, Alessandro Solbiati…
For several years, as a permanent member or special guest soloist in this field of contemporary music, she has taken part in the activities of numerous ensembles, including Antidogma Musica, L’Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain (EOC), I Solisti della Camerata Casella, Neues Ensemble Linz, and performs as a concert soloist with major ensembles and orchestras throughout the world (Germany, Austria, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Romania, United Kingdom, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, South Korea, Cambodia, Thailand, Philippines, United States, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, South Africa, Morocco). She has also taken part in numerous radio and television productions, as well as several recordings that reflect both her experience and the high quality of her piano playing. Several of her recordings have been awarded prizes: Diapason d’or for (Météores /Dufourt/EOC/Kawka), Coup de Coeur de l’Académie Charles Cross (Litanies du Soleil / Lemaitre), Quatre étoiles Classica (The Four Seasons / Teruggi). She is also co-editor of the Piano Contemporain collection published by Éditions Jobert.
Among the concertos she has performed are those by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Liszt, Messiaen, Paris, Correggia, Solbiati and Dufourt, for which she was accompanied by the RAI Philharmonic Orchestras, des Pays de la Loire, Göttingen, Bucarest, Craiova, Treviso, Novara, Nice, Medellin and Bryansk Philharmonic Orchestras, as well as ensembles such as the EOC, Ensemble Contrechamps de Genève, Ensemble 2e2m, etc.
She has also given recitals and master classes in around thirty countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and America, including major festivals and concert halls such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival, the Festival Radio France de Montpellier, the Morrison Chamber Music Center in San Francisco, the Festival Cervantino Mexico, the Brucknerhaus in Linz, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Radio France in Paris, the Festival Musica in Strasbourg, the Studio Ernest-Ansermet Radio Genève, the Sala Cecilia Meireles in Rio de Janeiro, the Auditorium de Dijon, the Auditorium Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Opera de Nantes, … ..
It is a very wide range of repertoire, based on a vast heritage of interpretation, a permanent curiosity, the in-depth exploration and mastery of the styles which make the fame and the singularity of Ancuza Aprodu, a pianist questioning today great romantic and contemporary works with the same spirit of research, integrity, fantasy too, an artist in great demand finally by the great creators of our time. The concertante piano works dedicated to her by Hugues Dufourt, Philippe Manoury, Enrico Correggia, Bernard de Vienne and Gerard Zinsstag bear witness to this.
In recent seasons, she has premiered numerous works, including Mouvements, a concerto for piano and ensemble by Philippe Manoury with the EOC and conducted by Bruno Mantovani (Festival Messiaen, Festival de la Chaise- Dieu, Opéra de Saint Etienne) and E basta così, a piece for piano and electronics by Daniel Teruggi (Maison de la Radio, ZKM Karlsruhe) and performs in recital, as a soloist on tour in Italy, Germany and France, and in duo with bass-baritone Vincent Le Texier (Opéra de Limoges, Festival Berlioz de la Côte Saint André, Paris, Lille, Opéra de Nice, Opéra de Saint Etienne, Festival Antidogma de Turin, Festival Musicalta,… ). She was also a guest of the Quatuor Stanislas de Nancy in a programme based on the quintet by Cesar Franck, and gave several concerts in tribute to Enrico Correggia on the occasion of his 90th birthday.
This season, she is performing in recital, both solo and with Vincent Le Texier, and has recorded several CDs: on Azur Classical with violinist Gauthier Dooghe, on Megadisc for oeuvres by Daniel Teruggi, and on EnPhases for the Bernard de Vienne concerto and melodies by Debussy and Ravel with Vincent Le Texier, with whom she also recorded Claude Hermitte’s ‘Plupart du temps’ cycle, based on poems by Pierre Reverdy.
Ancuza Aprodu is a professor at the Val d’Yerres-Val de Seine Regional Conservatory (CRD) and also at the Saint-Cloud Conservatory. She has given several seminars and masterclasses in different countries and institutions: in France (CRR de Rouen; CRR de Versailles, Conservatoire de Saint-Raphael…), in the United States (San Francisco State University; CalArts; Wesleyan Illinois University; Northern Illinois University; Williams College), in Brazil (Festival Eleazar De Carvalho; Escola de Musica Bontempo; Corso international de Verao Brasilia; Conservatorio S. Lima in Sao Paulo; Universidade Federal Rio de Janeiro; Conservatorio Pernambucano in Recife; Universidade Federal Rio Grande do Norte; Escola de Musica de Brasilia; Universidade Federal de Goiania; Universidade Federal Salvador Bahia; Seminarios Internationales de Musica de Bahia), at the Conservatorio Superieur de Musique de Buenos Aires; Loyola University in La Paz; Eafit University in Medellin; University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh; National Academy of Music in Hanoi; Yamaha Music School in Bangkok; National Normal University in Taiwan; Soochow University; National Chiao-Tung University; Samgmyung University in Seoul.
