
Gabriela Ingrid Nicolaescu
ASFA Member & Aspen Seminar Alumna 2023
Gabriela Ingrid Nicolaescu is a dedicated teacher specialized in vocational art educational system. She grew up in a family of teachers, specialized in literature – foreign languages andbphysics, chemistry, electronics, astronomy. She felt inspired and chose to follow this
profession, with a trans disciplinary view and the will to help all youth discover their potential and their calling. She holds a PhD (MD) in music from National University of Music Bucharest and three different majors in arts. She is head of the Cultural Department – University of Life Sciences King Mihai I and piano teacher, trainer and mentor at the Arts Highschool Ion Vidu.
She works with youth ranging from 4 to 27 with the goal of discovering the qualities and abilities of each student for a better performance in their own chosen profession. During her 22 years of teaching activity she obtained prizes with her students, organized hundreds of diverse cultural events, made partnerships with state and private institutions, coordinated projects, chaired evaluation boards, she was speaker and artist on stage as a pianist, conductor and singer in Timișoara, București, Iași, Cluj, Giurgiu, Bârlad, Zalău, Sighișoara, Ardud, Ruse – Bulgaria, Uzdin – Serbia, Wolluwe Saint-Pierre – Bruxelles, Stuttgart and München – Germany. She has experience in Entrepreneurship and started her own business in retail, and was a cofounder for a company specialized in public safety services. She was semi-finalist with her student’s team at Innovation Labs 2023.






