Sorin Dogariu, piano, is the Concerto Soloist of the State Philharmonic of Arad, Romania. He graduated in 1982 from the National University of Music from Bucharest, Romania. He studied piano with the eminent pianist and professor Gabriel Amiras. In 1996 and 1997 he studied with famous Russian pianist and professor Lazar Berman, at the Piano Academy from Imola, Italy. Dogariu is part of the piano faculty at the Music School of the Vest University in Timisoara, Romania. In 2002 and 2003, Dogariu was associate professor of piano at the National University of Music in Bucharest. Since early in his musical life, he was present at the prestigious national piano competition where he obtained the supreme prize on numerous occasions. Dogariu appeared as soloist with prestigious Romanian orchestra, in concerts throughout Romania as well as on tours in Germany, Hungary, Italy and Taiwan.