Virineia Pirnau

Five singers took part in the opera gala given with the Sofia Philharmonic on 2 October 2022, Virineia Pirnau among them, on a bill she shared with Ioannis Lazopoulos, Wonjun Jo, Adelina Maria Cociobanu and Bozhidar Bozhkilov. Pirnau was born in Orhei in the Republic of Moldova and began music at eight, in choral conducting and voice. From 2012 she attended the Stefan Neaga music college while studying classical singing with Vladimir Vichilu, then read canto clasic at the National University of Music in Bucharest, graduating in 2020 and completing a master's degree with Iulia Isaev in 2022. Prizes followed from Cernauti in 2014, Iasi and Piatra Neamt in 2015, Bucharest in 2018 and 2019, and the Remember Enescu competition in Busteni in 2019, where she took first prize and the Emil and Georgeta Pinghiriac special prize. She sang at the Romanian Athenaeum and the Sutu Museum, at the Festival of Independent Opera in Iasi in 2017 and at the Sibiu opera festival in 2021, and was selected for Raina Kabaivanska's masterclass in the autumn of 2022.