Mariana Preda
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About
Mariana Preda is a panflute musician based in Amsterdam.
She has been playing the pan flute for over 19 years.
She released many albums such as, "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.
Her education was enriched by Dutch panflute player Matthijs Koene. In May 2018 she got her bachelor's diploma in 'Classical/Contemporary panflute' at the Conservatory of Amsterdam which opened for her the first Master panflute department in the world.
In 2020 she finished her Master's degree in 'Classical/Contemporary panflute'.
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 panflute 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.
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 2019-2020: Grachten Festival, 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, Havana, New York, Chicago Cultural Center, Los Angeles, Cairo and more.
In 2018 Mariana together with Daisuke Kanamaru took part at the well known IBLA Grand Prize, a music competition that takes place in Ragusa, Italy every year, run by the IBLA Foundation based in New York City.
On 5th May 2019 Mariana got an Honorary Citizenship of the city of Jacksonville, Arkansas, handed by Mayor Bob Johnson.
On 7th May 2019 Mariana performed at Carnegie Hall in New York.
In 2019-2020 Mariana had many concerts in the Netherlands with the 'Cununa Ensemble', a musical group that links classical music to jazz and folk.
The classical/contemporary pan flute has developed only in the last 20 years which concluded with composers writing for this instrument and educators to develop a teaching program. The instrument has been very famous in world music for centuries, therefore the oral transmission played and still plays an important role in teaching and developing the techniques of the instrument.
I've been teaching the pan flute for 7 years.
My style is based on demonstration, involving the student in the process of understanding the techniques of the instrument as well as the reasons behind certain musical styles in order to help them achieve confidence and a better interpretation.
I use most of the time the brainstorming strategy to help students generate questions and ideas and get creative like in improvising, writing their own melodies, etc. In matters of musical interpretation, I encourage experimenting with phrases, musical colors, rhythms, musical direction, and music analysis.
My method is based on personalized learning, combining the existing material that I have, such as pan flute methods, pieces, exercises, and the needs that the student has. In this way, the learning process becomes much faster and clearer since I focus on the struggles that the student has in regards to the instrument technique and work with specific exercises only on those. In my classes, I combine the learning of the techniques (personalized exercises) with the repertoire that the student wants to approach. In this way, the technique matters consolidate while approaching the repertoire. At the beginning of each class, I do ear training exercises to stimulate the student's attention using game-based learning.
The texts I usually recommend are 'Complete Pan Flute Book by Costel Puscoiu' and my personal method I wrote for my Master's thesis which will be soon published.