his career, Lupu often refused to grant interviews to the press out of "fear of being misunderstood or misquoted". His aversion to the press and publicity has prompted them to label him as "the reclusive Radu Lupu", with The Independent referring to him as a "woolly recluse" and "like someone dragged unwillingly into the concert hall but asked to leave his begging-bowl outside." In addition, Lupu usually did not allow radio broadcasts of his performances. In 1994, Chicago Tribune noted that Lupu's press kit then contained one single interview he granted to Clavier magazine in 1981. Other published interviews include a "conversation" that Lupu granted to Clavier in 1992 and an interview from 1975 that was aired on BBC Radio 3. Lupu died in Lausanne, after a long illness, on 17 April 2022, aged 76. Footnotes References External links Radu Lupu biography at Decca 1945 births 2022 deaths 20th-century classical pianists 21st-century classical pianists Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Grammy Award winners Honorary Members of the Royal Academy of Music Jewish classical pianists Male classical pianists Moscow Conservatory alumni Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom People from Galați Prize-winners of the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition Prize-winners of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Pupils of Maria Curcio Romanian classical pianists Romanian Jews