Renowned Romanian pianist Mihaela Ursuleasa dies at 33

PanARMENIAN.Net - Internationally-renowned Romanian pianist Mihaela Ursuleasa has been found dead in her apartment in the Austrian capital, Belfast Telegraph said.

The musician's agent, Andreea Butucariu, said in a statement from Berlin that Ursuleasa, 33, had died on Thursday from the effects of a cerebral haemorrhage and asked for her family's privacy to be respected. Police in Vienna confirmed the cause of death.

Butucariu told Romanian media that Ursuleasa had recently cancelled two concerts in the Romanian capital Bucharest on unspecified health grounds.

Ursuleasa began playing the piano at five under the guidance of her gypsy jazz musician father in then communist Romania. She obtained a grant to study in Vienna at 12, a year after communism collapsed.

She went on to play at New York's Carnegie Hall, with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester in Berlin, with Orchestre National de France and also with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.