Vlad Bourceanu, Violin

Biography

Vlad Bourceanu was born in Bucarest in 1980. 
 
At the age of 2 years and 3 months, he started his music lessons, and at 4 years of age won first prize piano, second prize violin in his first national music competition. Just before the age of 5, he started studies at the “George Enescu Music High School”, Bucarest. 
 
At the age of 9, he was a guest of the London Symphony Orchestra as part of a group of otherwise 16 to 23 year old student musicians. He performed at the South Bank and Barbican Centres and was interviewed on BBC Radio 3, as well as being mentioned in the Daily Telegraph as “nine-year-old virtuoso pianist and violinist Vlad Bourceanu”. 
 
At the age of 11, after a year’s study at Rome’s Music Conservatoire, he came to London to study at the Purcell School of Music and at the Royal Academy of Music. 
 
He now holds a Bachelor of Music (Performance) degree from the Royal Academy of Music as well as the Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music (Performance) Diploma. He has studied with internationally renowned professors such as Erich Gruenberg. 
 
He has taken part in Masterclasses with international violinists such as Zakhar Bron, Ruggiero Ricci, Maurice Hasson and many others. 
 
He has performed as an orchestral musician under Bernard Haitink KBE, Kurt Masur, Sir Colin Davis, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Colin Metters, Edward Gardner, Ilan Volkov and many others. He has been a co-leader of the European Union Youth Orchestra. 
 
He has also been an active chamber musician, having worked in this capacity with performers such as Leeds Piano Competition finalist Chiao-Ying Chang, and performed for Gyorgy Sebok and, as part of his Beethoven lectures, for renowned reporter and Beethoven enthusiast, John Suchet. He has also been playing numerous violin and piano chamber music works with pianists including Catherine Dubois, Alice Demske Hansen and Jessica Chan. 
 
He has studied conducting with Denise Ham and has been, amongst others, Assistant Conductor to an Opera Holland Park’s production of La Traviata, with Anne-Sophie Duprels in the title role. 
 
He has also been active as a composer, his co-composition “Variations on ‘Notations’ by Pierre Boulez” having been performed by his chamber group at the Barbican Hall, in the presence of M. Boulez himself. 
 
He is currently active as a violinist, conductor, composer, violin teacher and music and theatre journalist and critic.