Tudor
Matei Jora

Biography

About Tudor

Tudor Matei Jora began the piano at four and a half at the “N. N. Tonitza” Art School in Bârlad, with Prof. Anemona Forțu-Niagu, who gave him the foundations of technique and a love for the instrument. Since 2019 he has studied with Prof. Dr. Roxana Ota in Iași, his current teacher, whose teaching has shaped his discipline, his sound and his sense of style, from the clarity of Bach to the colour and virtuosity of Liszt and Scriabin.

In May 2026 he made his recital debut at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest, performing Scriabin’s Fifth Sonata.

He won First Prize at the National Music Performance Olympiad in 2025 and again in 2026. In 2026 he also took the Absolute First Prize at the Orbetello Piano International Competition in Italy and First Prize with the Special Jury Prize at the National “Carl Czerny” Competition. Earlier prizes include First Prize at the International Carl Filtsch Piano Competition in Sibiu (2025) and Third Prize at the International Mozart Competition in Vienna (2024).

Masterclasses have taken him to Sofia and Leipzig with Prof. Jacques Ammon, and to the Académie Musicalta in Rouffach, Alsace, where he worked with Igor Andreev.

His repertoire runs from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier to Liszt’s concert études and Prokofiev’s Third Sonata. Away from the keyboard he composes, which he describes as a way of understanding music from the inside.

• Masterclasses
• Florian MitreaPurcell School / Royal Academy of Music
• Prof. Jacques AmmonAllegra Festival & University of Music Leipzig
• Prof. Reto ReichenbachCrescendo Summer Institute
• Prof. Pablo GaldoInternational Piano Masterclass
• Igor AndreevAcadémie Musicalta, Rouffach
• Aurelia VisovanL’Académie Musicalta
• Larisa JarAMTAP