Atena Carte is a pianist born in Timisoara, Romania. She graduated from the University of Music in Timisoara, where she studied with Maria Bodo. Later on she obtained Concert and Soloist Diplomas studying with Jean-François Antonioli at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne, and a Concert Diploma in Chamber Music with Ulrich Koella and Peter Solomon at the Zürcher University or Arts.
A Swiss Confederation scholarship holder, she received as well the Paderewski Society Prize. She attended masterclasses with Jaques-Saint Yves, François René Duchable, Axel Bauni. She also earned a Certificate of Advanced Studies in cultural project management from the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève.
Since 2007, Carte has a pianist position at the Zürcher University of Arts and since 2018 she is a piano professor at the Conservatoire de Musique de Lausanne. She is also the artistic director of the ACRISCO Festival (CrissierArts Switzerland).
Atena Carte performs regularly in concerts and has won 9 national and international awards. She appears in various festivals (St Prex Festival, Murten Classics, Musique et Montagne, Septembre musical Montreux, Piano à Saint-Ursanne ,Musique en Ecrins,France, Festival de Oravita, Roumanie, Carnegie Hall,New York, with ensemble Altaïr) and collaborates with prestigious orchestras such as Tonhalle Zürich, Opernhaus Zürich, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre de chambre de Lausanne, Bern Symphonie Orchestra. As an orchestra and chamber music musician she collaborated with conductors like Paavo Järvi, Charles Dutoit, Jaap van Zweden, John Eliot Gardiner, David Reiland, and for contemporary music with John Adams, Helmut Lachenmann, Matthias Pintscher, and Pierre-André Valade.
She has recorded several CDs, including works by Piazzola, Messiaen and Raphael.
Carte has been the Coordinator of the Verbier Festival’s piano class since 2o21.
