Bogdan Dulu is a versatile concert pianist, orchestral musician, educator, and arts administrator based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He plays keyboard instruments with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and serves as Co-Director of Keyboard Studies at its School of Music. He is also Artistic Director of the Pacific International Youth Music Society, which presents an annual festival and competition for piano, strings, and chamber music.

His career spans four continents, collaborating with more than 50 conductors and distinguished soloists in repertoire covering over 400 years. Highlights include working with Tan Dun on the Canadian premiere of his Buddha Passion, performing Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with leading violinists, and collaborating with Marc-André

 

Hamelin, Jonathan Crow, Hung-Wei Huang, among many others.

Gold medalist at the Seattle International Piano Competition, he has toured extensively across Canada with Jeunesses Musicales and Debut Atlantic. His performances have reached remote northern communities and have been broadcast internationally by NHK Tokyo, YLE Helsinki, KING FM Seattle, WFMT Chicago, the Romanian Radio, and the CBC.

 

An active educator, mentor, and adjudicator, his students have won coveted spots on CBC's "30 under 30" annual list, and have been accepted to leading institutions such as Juilliard, Manhattan School of Music, Glenn Gould School, Berklee, and Stanford. 

 

He holds graduate degrees from Mannes School of Music in New York City (under Irina Mrozova) and the University of British Columbia, where he proudly received a doctorate as Jane Coop’s last graduating student. 

He is an avid cyclist and coffee enthusiast who likes to get things done. He does not like viola jokes.