Florin IONESCU GALATI

Violin (Türkiye, Special Projects)

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.

Recordings:

“L’Estro Armonico” by Vivaldi, Electrecord, 1988
12 Concerts recorded by Romanian Radio and TV Broadcasting, 1988 – 1996
CD “Paganini 1” for violin at Munchen – Hercules Hall
4 Concerts recorded by Turkish TV Broadcasting, 1994-1998
CD “Mozart” Concert no.3 with Brasov Philharmonic, 1998
CD “Schubert” Forellenquintett 1998 International Chamber Festival
CD New Year Concert 2000, encores
ZDF 3 concerts life recordings from festivals

Repertory:

Tartini, Corelli, Bach, Mozart, Leclair, Arriaga, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Paganini, Locatelli, Wieniawski, Bruch, Lalo, Enescu, Elenescu, Kreisler, Saint-Saens, Ysaye, Kabalevsky, Tchaikovsky, Sarasate, etc.

He now has permanent collaboration with all Orchestras all over Europe.

He has played with:

Graz Symphony Orchestra
Saarbrucken Symphony Orchestra
Turkish Symphony Orchestras: Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Adana
Norway Symphony Orchestra
Marseilles Symphony Orchestra
München Symphony Orchestra
Genova Symphony Orchestra
Athens State Symphony Orchestra
Moldavian Philharmonic Orchestra
Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra Prague
Deutsches Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra
Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra
Bucharest Radio National Orchestra
Basel Radio Orchestra… among others.

Played and/or collaborated with renowned musicians, such as;

Lazar Berman, Radu Lupu, Iosif Conta, Ayla Erduran, Valentin Gheorghiu, Rainer Hoffmann, Igor Oistrach, Viktor Pikaisen, Eugen Sirbu, Michael Stern, Victor Tretiakov, Tibor Varga, Ion Voicu, Lory Wallfish, Ian Brown, Horea Andreescu, Vladimir Altschuler, Gűrer Aykal, Alexander Rahbari, Marek Pijarowski….

Played in famous Concert Halls, including;