Inya Cutova 16 years old, is a 10th-grade student at the National College “Regina Maria” in Constanța, Romania.
In 2024, Inya was selected as the youngest admitted competitor among the 50 participants in the George Enescu International Competition. Among other recognitions, she won the 1st Prize at the “Carl Filtsch” International Piano Competition in Sibiu in 2025 – Category C (up to 32 years old), and the 1st Prize in Category B in 2023. She received the special prize “Best Ranked Romanian Pianist” at the Dinu Lipatti Competition, Bucharest 2025. She was also the 1st Prize Winner of the International Siegfried-Weishaupt Piano Competition, Landesmusikakademie Ochsenhausen, Germany, in 2025.
She was a finalist at the Târgu-Mureș “Marosvásárhely” Piano Competition in 2023 and 2024, and won several other prizes at multiple international piano competitions, such as the Irina Satchi Competition, Râmnicu Vâlcea 2023, and the F. Chopin Competition, Bacău 2023. For three consecutive years (2022–2024), she won the 1st Prize at the National Olympiad of Instrumental Interpretation (Olimpiada Națională de Interpretare Instrumentală).
She received a Special Prize for the Promotion of a Young Musician with Extraordinary Potential from the “Bruno Frey” Cultural Foundation within ISAM 2023, Musik Landesakademie Ochsenhausen, Germany.
She made her orchestral debut with the Philharmonic of Pitești at the age of 12. She has also performed multiple times with the Philharmonics of Târgu Mureș, Chișinău, Râmnicu Vâlcea, Pitești, Constanța, and Sibiu.