Mrs. Cornelia Petrescu grew up in Bucharest-Romania. She finished Music High School "Dinu Lipatti" in Bucharest and earned a Bachelor Degree of Piano and Music Education at "Ciprian Porumbescu" Conservatory- Bucharest, studying with famous Romanian pianists as teachers. At Bayreuth Germany she had Piano Master classes with W.Kemph, Nadia Boulanger, Sviatoslav Richter, Aldo Ciccolini, and Valentin Gheorghiu. She earned a piano teacher position in Bukarest. After couple of years she moved with her family (husband, cello player and son) to Venezuela as a pianist of Maracaibo Symphony Orchestra and as the Dean of Piano Department of Conservatory "Jose Luis Paz" Maracaibo-Venezuela. Mrs. Petrescu managed "Centro Musical Amadeus" with more then 60 students. Part of them are now piano teachers and performers at Maracaibo- Caracas, Valencia, Puerto Ordaz -Venezuela. She moved in USA as a pianist of the Miami Symphony Orchestra and joined public schools system as a music teacher. Mrs. Petrescu teaches piano at "Petresco Music Conservatory" piano studio. Recently she earned a Master Degree of Education at AIU University.

PERFORMING EXPERIENCE

Mrs. Cornelia Petrescu traveled allover the world as a pianist of Maracaibo Symphony. As a pianist of Miami Symphony she played at Carnegie Hall N.Y.
She belonged to Trio Amadeus making tours at Caribbean Islands and now she is part of Lippati Trio. She loves opera this why she played as a piano coach for Fidelio by Beethoven with Metropolitan Opera. Mrs. Petrescu played with Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo, preparing and coaching for North Miami Symphony Orchestra, Merry Widow by F. Lehar. As a religious performer she played piano and prepared choirs for Christmas Cantatas. Mrs. Petrescu played piano for Elementary Chorus Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Superintendent's Honor Festival.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Mrs. Petrescu has an extended experience in teaching piano with excellent results. She prepared piano students for Leningrad Conservatory Russia, Piano Competitions in Romania, Venezuela and USA. She has three students who chose a piano as a career at University of Miami. Mrs. Petrescu is very patient with her students and makes them play very quick. She understands that music enhances learning, especially by playing piano. One of the last theories of teaching is that playing piano a student improves FCAT results in math reading and writing. "Petresco Music Conservatory" Inc is a piano studio registered to Tallahassee Florida, therefore Mrs. Petrescu's piano students present an evaluation twice per year. She prepares her students for two annual concerts and she releases a diploma for the level the student is on.