"...it might have been Paganini himself playing..."
- SEEN AND HEARD INTERNATIONAL
Vlad Maistorovici studied violin at The Yehudi Menuhin School with Natalia Boyarskaya and Lutsia Ibragimova, at the Royal College of Music in London with Felix Andrievsky and at the Haute École de Musique Lausanne with Pierre Amoyal on a Soloist Master degree. He deepened his understanding of chamber music with Bruno Canino at Fiesole Music School Florence and has had influential performance masterclasses with Boris Kuschnir, Anna Chumachenko, Gordan Nikolich, Ivry Gitlis, Ida Haendel, Zakhar Bronn, Ferenc Rados, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Lera Auerbach at courses such as Verbier Academy, Keshet Eilon and others. A faithful performer of the masterworks of the past, Maistorovici is known for balancing traditional repertoire with innovation at major venues and festivals, such as South Bank Centre, Musiekgebouw Amsterdam, Salle Flagey Bruxelles, Studio Ernest Ansermet Geneva, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Romanian Athenaeum Bucharest, Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Conservatoire, Kaufman Centre New York, Verbier Festival, Spoleto Festival, Enescu Festival, with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, European Union Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre des Jeunes de la Méditerranée, Campos do Jordao Festival Orchestra, New European Ensemble of The Hague, Young European Strings Camerata Bruxelles, Sinfonia Cymru Cardiff, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Nouvel Opéra Fribourg, Estonian Sinfonietta, Bucharest Radio Orchestra, under the baton of conductors such as Neil Thomson, Clement Power, Jonathan Berman, Jonathan Bloxham, Michael Wendeberg, Thierry Fischer, Gottfried Rabl, Baldur Brönnimann, Gabriel Bebeșelea, Radu Paponiu, and many others. A violinist with “technical assuredness balanced by interpretive willingness to push boundaries that can, and often does, make sparks fly” (Seen and Heard International), he has inspired, in collaboration with orchestras or as part of the London-based Mercury Quartet, over 20 new works by composers such as Mark Anthony Turnage (who dedicated Romanian Rhapsody to Maistorovici), Jonathan Cole, Mark Simpson, Steven Daverson, Charlotte Bray, Edmund Finnis, Laurent Durupt, Diana Rotaru, Dan Dediu. His love for the music of rock band Queen has led him into the crossover genre with QUEENClassics, where “As bandleader, Maistorovici cuts a kind of Stephane-Grappelli meets-Brian-May figure” directing “classic songs, superbly arranged by Maistorovici” (Wales Arts Review). In 2024 he was commissioned to compose the mandatory work for all competitors of the George Enescu International Violin Competition. In 2025, Maistorovici was awarded the Romanian Academy Award, and in 2026 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is also a winner of numerous awards, among them the Golden Medal of the Berliner International Competition, The Tillett Trust Performer Platform, Young Concert Artist Trust and Remember Enescu International Competition. Vlad Maistorovici has given performance and composition masterclasses at the Royal College of Music London, Lilla Akademien Stokholm, Dartington International Summer School, Geneva Conservatoire and Bucharest National University of Music. In 2015 he founded vibrate!festival with pianist Diana Ionescu, an international event that brings together world-class innovative classical artists, reaching out to new audiences through eclectic programming and cross-discipline projects in alternative spaces.
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MUSICAL AMERICA
Merkin Hall NY
Violinist and composer Vlad Maistorovici travelled to the concert from London, where he currently lives and studies, to perform two works, Ioana Tiberian's lyrical Sonata for Violin and Piano (with pianist Bogdan Dulu), as well as his own catchy and sonorous composition, Monument. Prélude à L'unison - Tribute to Enescu, which ended the recital.
This was the third concert this month featuring pianist Matei Varga, who is quickly establishing himself as one of this generation's most promising artists: New Yorkers also experienced his acclaimed New York debut at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall, as well as an all-Enesco concert at Mannes College (his all-Enesco recording will be released by Naxos in 2009).
SEEN AND HEARD INTERNATIONAL
Wigmore Hall
“Vlad Hirlav-Maistorovici (b. 1985, Romania) is a no holes barred violinist. His technical assuredness is balanced by interpretive willingness to push boundaries that can, and often does, make sparks fly. Szymanowski and Ravel offered near ideal vehicles for him to show this. As was commented afterwards by the adjudicator, it might have been Paganini himself playing the Szymanowski, so much did both the Italian and Polish elements come through. Ravel’s Tzigane was dispatched all the instinctiveness of a gypsy fiddler, and all the technique of a virtuoso. Both performances were also notable for producing the only genuine duo partnerships of the evening, Ellena Hale’s accompaniments being sensitive and telling.”
"...his ideas are always interesting, new and fresh, but never betraying the style and the structure of the performed work..."
BRUNO CANINO
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"...one of the most gifted violinists I have ever taught. His sound is powerful and expressive. His impeccable technique allows him to express himself freely. He is a born performer with compelling charisma..."
FELIX ANDRIEVSKY
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