Andrei Ioniţă (Cello)
Born: 1st January 1994, Bucharest
Nationality: Romanian
Andrei Ionuț Ioniță is a Romanian cellist. He won first prize in the cello division of the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition.
Ioniță began studying piano when he was five years old and started cello lessons three years later. He studies at the Berlin University of the Arts under Jens Peter Maintz. In 2009, he won the David Popper International Cello Competition, and in 2013 won first prize in the Aram Khatchaturian International Competition. A year later, he took second place at the 63rd ARD International Music Competition and the Emanuel Feuermann Competition.
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Introducing Andrei Ioniță
The Romanian cellist talks to Katherine about his debut solo album Oblique Strategies, which includes the world premiere recording of Brett Dean's Brian Eno-inspired work of the same name as well as music by JS Bach, Kodály and Svante Henryson.