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Mariana Preda

Bio

Haarlem, Netherlands

  • Pan Flute Piano

  • Professional

  • Conservatorium Van Amsterdam

Mariana Preda is a Pan Flute musician and singer originally from Romania.

To this day she released three albums, "Luna", "Sunrise" and "The Untold Stories", with the Italian label MAP from Milan.

Mariana won numerous music awards, among which are also the Maria Tanase, the Mamaia Music Festival award and the first place at the Panflute Competition in the Netherlands.

In May 2018 she got her bachelor diploma in 'Classical/Contemporary Panflute' at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. The Conservatory opened for her the first Master Panflute department in the Netherlands. She is currently finishing her 2nd Masters year under the guidance of Dutch Panflute Professor Matthijs Koene.


In 2016 Mariana has been given a special prize at the Palace of Parliament in Bucharest for being one of the best Romanian students abroad in the field of the arts, a recognition that also rewards her activity of promoting the pan flute all over the world.


In 2015, 2016 and 2017 she performed at UNTOLD Festival in Cluj Napoca, the largest electronic music festival held in Romania each year, approaching a new style of music.


In 2017 she released her first single called "Dungeons".


Mariana Preda performed classical and contemporary music accompanied by Japanese pianist Daisuke Kanamaru at the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ for the 40th edition of the Uitmarkt Festival.


Other music festivals where Mariana took part in 2018: Vondelpark Festival, Uitmarkt Festival, Prix Annelie de Man, Gaudeamus Festival, Romanian Days in De Hoge Veluwe.


She performed in many cities around the world such as Bucharest, Cluj, Milan, Rome, Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Cairo, Copenhagen, Madrid, Havana, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.


During summer 2018 Mariana together with Daisuke Kanamaru took part at the 27th edition of IBLA Grand Prize, a music competition that takes place in Ragusa, Italy every year, run by the IBLA Foundation based in New York City.

Mariana got two awards: Outstanding Musician scoring 9.20 out of 10 and the Bartok Special Award.


The award brought her on the IBLA Tour 2019 with different performances around the USA.

On 26th April Mariana performed at Radford University in Virginia.

On 5th May 2019 Mariana got an Honorary Citizenship of the city of Jacksonville, Arkansas, handed by Mayor Bob Johnson.

On 6th May 2019, Mariana performed at Casa Italiana Zarrili-Marimò.

On 7th May 2019 Mariana performed at Carnegie Hall in New York.

In August 2019 Mariana performed with the 'Cununa Ensemble' during the opening at the Grachtenfestival and the closing day at Amnesty International Headquarters. Mariana played with Daisuke Kanamaru at Uitmarkt 2019 in Vondelkerk.

In October 2019 she released 'Levante', a new single together with Dutch DJ Dread Pitt which got more than 2.000 streams on Spotify in less than a month.

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Mariana Preda & Daisuke Kanamaru - Uitmarkt 2019 - Part 2

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Cununa Ensemble - Cantecul lui Iancu Jianu & Hora Martisorului

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IBLA Grand Prize 2018 - Mariana Preda & Daisuke Kanamaru - Romanian Folk Dances by Béla Bartók

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Ouverture - Suite in E Flat Major for Flute Pastorelle, Strings and B.C

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Mariana Preda & Daisuke Kanamaru at Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam

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