Anca Maria Cristescu began studying flute at the age of 10 at the Carmen Sylva Art College Ploiești with Alina Papara. She completed her bachelor and master studies at the National University of Music in Bucharest, with Vasile Ganțolea, Ionuț Bogdan Ștefănescu and privately with Mihaela Anica. She is a prize-winner of numerous national and international competitions and she received scholarships offered by the The Margareta of Romania Royal Foundation and the Union of Performing Creation of Musicians in Romania. Over the years, she participated in numerous workshops and masterclasses with Mihaela Anica, Matei Ioachimescu, Ana Oltean, Barbara Gisler-Haase, Walter Auer, Sébastian Jacot, Loïc Schneider, Eric Lamb, Karin Bonelli, Karl-Heinz Schütz, and played with orchestras such as George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Camerata Orchestra, Romanian Youth Orchestra, Österreichisch-Koreanische Philharmonie, Media Innovation Orchestra.
In 2017, she received an Erasmus scholarship to study at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, under professor Barbara Gisler-Haase. After that, she followed a master program at the same university in Vienna, specializing in chamber music with professors Robert Wolf, Ting-Wei Chen and Gottfried J. Pokorny. There, she had the opportunity to work with many internationally renowned teachers and conductors, such as Petra Stump-Linshalm, Heinz-Peter Linshalm, Karin Bonelli, Sonja Korak, Eva Furrer, Stefan Mendl, Johannes Meissl, Vida Vujic, Avedis Kouyoumdjian, Jaime Volfson Reyes, Johannes Wildner, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Clive Brown, David Merö.
During her studies in Vienna, she discovered her passion for musical physiology, and in 2022 she starts studying mental training for musicians, music psychology and physiology at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. She is currently giving workshops on music physiology both in Romania and abroad, on topics such as anatomy applied to the instrument, mental training, performance anxiety and fear on stage, interdisciplinary performance or body awareness during artistic performance.
