In the 2025/26 season, Alexandra performs with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Santtu-Matias Rouvali at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest, followed by season opening concerts in Tallinn with the Estonian National Symphony and Olari Elts, and in Belgium with the Brussels Philharmonic and Kazushi Ōno. These performances will feature the powerful “Fantasies” by Nadia Boulanger and George Enescu, alongside Clara Schumann’s piano concerto, a signature piece for Dariescu. New debuts include performances with the Pacific Symphony and Tianyi Lu in the US, as well as engagements in Scandinavia with the Malmö and Aalborg Symphony Orchestras. In the UK, Alexandra reunites with the Royal Philharmonic and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestras and makes her much-anticipated debut in the Southbank Centre’s Piano Recital Series. She will close the season in Poland with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra under Krzysztof Urbański, followed by a UK tour, including performances in London and Birmingham.

In 2017, Dariescu took the world by storm with "The Nutcracker and I", a pioneering multimedia piano recital with dance and digital animation. It has since enjoyed international acclaim and drawn thousands of young audiences into concert halls across Europe, Australia, China, the Emirates, and the US, realising Dariescu’s vision of making classical music accessible to the wider public. The production’s 100 th performance was celebrated in November 2024 at the Barbican Centre, with recent notable presentations at Beijing’s NCPA, Paris’ La Seine Musicale, Konzerthaus Dortmund and the Megaron Athens Concert Hall.

A passionate advocate for inclusive repertoire, Alexandra Dariescu’s recent highlights include UK premieres of works by Dora Pejačević and Doreen Carwithen with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the world premiere of James Lee III’s "Shades of Unbroken Dreams", written for her, with the Detroit Symphony and BBC Philharmonic. She also recorded the newly discovered 1900 Piano Concerto by Leokadiya Kashperova for BBC Radio 3.

Deeply committed to education and cultural leadership, Dariescu co-created the educational concerts “Count Me In!” and “One Voice Above the Crowd” with conductor Tim Redmond, developed for the London Symphony Orchestra and the Leeds International Piano Competition. In 2024, she launched the Alexandra Dariescu Award, the first prize of its kind in the history of the Leeds Competition, recognising outstanding performances of works by female composers.

Dariescu has released nine albums to critical acclaim, the latest disc being the Clara Schumann and Grieg Piano Concertos with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Tianyi Lu. Her discography includes a Decca album with Angela Gheorghiu and Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Dariescu has been mentored by Sir András Schiff and Dame Imogen Cooper. In 2020, Dariescu received the Order 'Cultural Merit' in the rank of Knight by the Romanian President and became an Associated Member of the Royal Northern College of Music, where she also held the position of Professor of Piano for two years. From September 2024, Dariescu assumed the role of Professor of Piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

SEASON 2025 / 2026