Nicoleta Paraschivescu

Nicoleta Paraschivescu teaches the organ at the Academy of Music in Basel and is organist at Theodorskirche in Basel. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Leiden and completed her doctoral thesis on Giovanni Paisiello`s partimenti. She was awarded the hibou Foundation Prize in 2016 for her research into partimento practice and in 2025, she was awarded the ‘Premio Giovanni Paisiello Festival’ in Taranto (IT).

With the ensemble La Floridiana, she has recorded highly acclaimed world premiere recordings for the SONY (dhm) label. Concerts have taken her to renowned festivals across Europe. Her publications include books published by Schwabe-Verlag (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Scripta 6, 2019) and the University of Rochester Press, New York, ‘The Partimenti of Giovanni Paisiello. Pedagogy and Practice’ (2022), as well as essays in the Bach-Jahrbuch and with Turchini Edizioni.  www.nicoletaparaschivescu.com