Florin IONESCU-GALATI was born on the 19^th of April 1970 in Bucharest, Romania. He started to study the violin at the age of four with his father, the famous violinist and conductor Ilarion IONESCU-GALATI.

At the age of 10, he started his violin career by having his first broadcast with the National Radio Orchestra, playing Concerto for violin by Kabalevsky and receiving excellent critiques.

Florin attended the School of Music in Brasov as beginning of 1976 receiving instruction from Radu Hamzea. In 1989 he became a student of the Academy of Music in Bucharest, his teacher being professor Stefan Gheorghiu, but always under his father’s musical advice.

Along with several recitals and concerts in Romania, Florin IONESCU-GALATI began his international career in 1982 by performing recitals and concerts with orchestras in the United States, Canada, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Austria, Moldavia, France, Italy, Norway, Japan, Germany, Spain and England (London).

In 1993, he became state soloist of the “Brasov Philharmonic Orchestra”, Romania and in 2014 of the “George Enescu” Philharmonic Orchestra Botosani, Romania.

Awards and Distinctions:

He was Prize Laureate in the following International Competitions:

• International Competition “Usti nad Orlici”, Czechoslovakia 1985

• International Competition “Stresa”, Italy 1986

• International Competition “Dinu Lipatti”, Romania 1987

• International Competition “George Enescu”, Romania 1991

• International Competition “Tibor Varga”, Switzerland 1992

• International Competition “Paganini” Genova , Italy 1993

• International Competition Wieniawski, Poland 1994

• The Highest Prize of the “Union of Critics and Romanian Interprets” 1996

• The Highest Prize of the Romanian Television 1996, 1997

• The Highest Prize given by PRO TV for the international collaboration Romania-America telecast concert

He was declared as the soloist of the year in all over Turkey in 2000.

In 2003 the foundation “Ion Voicu” presented him diploma and golden medal for his special merit of maintaining a life the memory of the great violinist Ion Voicu.

In 2002 and 2004 he was awarded by the Union of the Romanian Critics for Music for promoting the Romanian music in Romania as well as abroad.