Romanian pianist Alina Bercu has fascinated audiences worldwide with her fine velvet tone, from Europe to Japan to America. Her touch conjures up brilliant colours of sound. Her playing is natural wrote the Belgian magazine Klassiek Centraal. 

Alina Bercu appears regularly on stages such as Carnegie Hall New York, Bass Performance Hall Fortworth, Tonhalle Zrich, Tonhalle and Opernhaus Dsseldorf, Thtre de Vevey, Die Glocke Bremen, Auditorium Rome, Romanian Atheneum, Prinzregententheater  Mnchen and many more. She has played alongside orchestras such as Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestre de chambre Lausanne, Mozart Orchester - Hamburg, Limburg Symfonie Orkest, George Enescu Philharmonic  Bucharest, Gulf Coast Symphony - Mississippi / SUA, Bremen Philarmoniker and Orchester Gesellschaft  Zrich, under the baton of notable conductors, e. g. Adrian Prabava, Nicloas Pasquet, Misha Katz, John Wesley Strickler, Paolo Arrivabeni, Theo Wolters, Jan Stulen, Robert Stehli, Romely Pfund, Cristian Mandeal, Horia Andreescu, Vlad Conta, Ilarion Ionescu Galati, Sergiu Comissiona.

Since she was 16, Alina started her studies in Germany, improving her piano skills under the guidance of Grigory Gruzman at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar and Wolfgang Manz from the Nrnberg University of Music. Concurrently she studied chamber music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main with Michael Sanderling and Angelika Merkle.

In November 2017 she received her diploma in piano performance (Konzertexamen) with the highest distinction, playing Beethovens Emperor Concerto. 

As part of her musical training, Alina has taken part in master classes and workshops with distinguished musicians such as Rudolf Buchbinder, Leslie Howard, Robert Levin, Andras Schiff, Werner Brtschi, Menahem Pressler and Karl-Heinz Kmmerling.

Born in Campina, Romania, in 1990, Alina started piano at the age of 7 in her home town. At the age of 9 she moved with her parents to Brasov to study piano with Prof. Univ. Dr. Stela Dragulin from the Faculty of Music at the Transylvania University. 

As a young teen, Alina Bercu was awarded a special prize by Romanias Ministry of Foreign Affairs for promoting her nation through culture. Many other prizes followed, she was a Finalist of the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition / Switzerland, she was awarded the 1st Prize and the Audience Prize at Steinway & Sons International Piano Competition, "Artistic Performances Prize by the Romanian Society of Radio Broadcast, the 1st Prize for solo section, concerto section and The Golden Medal at the World Piano Competition Cincinatti  Ohio / USA.

Alina has also won the 2nd Prize at the European Piano Contest Bremen in Germany, she was a laureate of the Chamber Music Competition Premio Trio diTrieste as Duo Enescu, with Violinist Dragos Manza in Italy, laureate of the A.M.A. Calabria International Piano Competition in Italy and received the 2nd Prize at the International Piano Competition ZF Musikpreis in Germany.

Alinas debut CD was awarded the Golden Label and Cle d'or prizes (coproduction with the Label Fuga Libera and BNP Paribas Fortis). It was recorded together with Ilian Garnet, Laureate of Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition in Brussels, with works by Schubert and Brahms.

She has recorded three other CDs for the Golden Sound Archives of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company.

Alina has frequently made radio and television appearances with MediciTV, NBC (USA), Radio Suisse Romande  Espace 2 and Tlvision Suisse Romande (Switzerland), Eurovision and Telepace (Italy), Metro  TV (Indonesia) and TVR (Romania).