The young pianist born in Bucharest has been playing piano since she was seven. She studied with the support of the Rahn Cultural Funds, while she was accepted to the masters course to the Zürich University of Arts, where she studied in the class of professor Konstantin Scherbakov. Her earliser studies include her as an Erasmus-funded talent at the Stuttgarti Hochshule für Musik in the class of Hans Peter Stenzl. Formerly she was student of the Bucharest National Music University and also Dinu Lipati music school as a juvenile.

Oana Popescu won the first prize at the a Carl Filtsch international competition in 2001, and gained the second prize at the Kosice International Piano Competition in 1999. She was performing with philharmonic orchestras around Roumania, Poland, Slovakia and Austria between 2001 és 2007. Lately she has been performing on solo-concerts around Germany.