Gheorghiu was born in Männedorf, Switzerland to a Romanian father and Canadian mother.

[4] He won the ex-aequo joint first prize in the 12-years old and under section of the San Marino Piano Competition in 2004.

In 2005 he was awarded first prize in the 10- to 13-year-old category of the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Weimar.

[3] He made his first public concert performance in 2004 in Tonhalle, Zürich with Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto (where the footage for the final scene of the film was recorded live).

[5] In 2009 he toured in Zürich, Gstaad,[6] and also in Harrogate, Bad Saarow, Bucharest, Bonn, China and Taiwan.