Four Named Winners of 2002-03 Concerto Competition
	Back to the main story		DANIELA FLONTA Pianist Daniela Flonta was born in 1980 in Zalau, Romania. She began her piano studies at the age of six with Margareta Pop. She attended the music school in her native town, studying with Kozák Maria until 1990. From 1990 to 1999 she studied at the Music High School in Cluj-Napoca with Mihaela Gavris (1990-1992) and Vera Negreanu (1992-1999). She has participated in master classes with Tatiana Pikaizen (Brasov Music Festival, 1996), Robert Shannon (Oberlin, 1998), Laura Melton (Oberlin, 2000), Ralf Gothoni (Gilmore Festival, 2000), Maxim Mogilewski (Oberlin, 2001), and Richard Goode (Oberlin, 2001). Flonta has participated in several summer music festivals. In 2001 she was a scholarship student at the Aspen Music Festival and School, where she studied with John Perry and Jean-David Coen. In 2002 she attended the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, where she studied piano with Yoheved Kaplinsky and chamber music with Emma Tahmiziàn and Nick Jones. Flonta has appeared on national television, and stories about her have appeared in both national and local newspapers. She has played solo and chamber music recitals in Zalau, Cluj-Napoca, Oberlin, Lakewood (Ohio), and Cleveland. Flonta has won the following national and international awards in Romania and abroad: 1987, first prize, Zalau Competition, 1989, second prize Oradea National Competition, 1992, 1st mention, Mozart Piano Competition, Cluj-Napoca, 1993, first prize, Deva National Competition, 1993, mention, Constanta National Competition, 1993, first prize and grand prize, "Sigismund Toduta" National Competition for Romanian Music, Bistrita, 1994, mention, Bach Competition, Cluj, 1994, second prize, Suceava National Competition, 1997, finalist, Brasov International Piano Competition, 1997, finalist, Oberlin Piano Competition and Festival, 1998, second prize, Oberlin Piano Competition, 2001, honorable mention, Corpus Christi (Texas) Young Artist Competition, 2001 and 2002, winner, Three Arts Club of Lakewood (Ohio) scholarship, 2002, winner, Oberlin Concerto Competition (Ohio) In addition to performing, Flonta teaches elementary and intermediate piano. She has taught private lessons, class piano, and piano lab at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She is a member of the Oberlin Music Coalition, a volunteer group that brings music to children and to the entire community. In 1999, she was admitted to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where she is pursuing a piano performance major and pedagogy minor. She is a full scholarship student of Peter Takács.
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