Mariana Sirbu
Born in Romania, Mariana Sirbu received her musical training
from her parents. She completed her musical education
in Bucherest at the National Academy of Music where her
principal teacher was Prof. Stefan Gheorghiu.
Born in Romania, Mariana Sirbu received her musical training from her parents. She completed her musical education in Bucherest at the National Academy of Music where her principal teacher was Prof. Stefan Gheorghiu. Her concert career started at a very early age, and brought her virtually to every country in Europe and oversees. Mrs. Sirbu has been price winner at International Competitions such as "George Enescu" (Romania), "Carl Flesch" (London), "Maria Canals" (Barcelona), Vittorio Gui" (Florence).
Mariana Sirbu has appeared as soloist in all the most important concert halls in the world: Berlin Philharmonic, Opera House-Sydney, Musikverein-Vienna, Concertgebow-Amsterdam, Teatro Colon-Buenos Aires, Carnegie Hall-New York, Teatro La Scala-Milan, Suntory Hall-Tokyo, etc. She has recorded extensively for various Radio and Television Broadcasting in Europe, including the complete series of Beethoven's Violin Sonatas for the Irish National TV network, and in USA, Japan, Canada and Australia.
In 1968 Mariana Sirbu founded and led the Academia String Quartet, which won major competitions in Liege (1972), Munchen (1973) Geneva (1974) and Belgrad (1975), followed by tours throughout the world. For seven years ( from 1978 to 1984) the <Academia> was RTE's resident string quartet. In 1985 she became the violinist for "Trio di Milano" with pianist Bruno Canino and Cellist Rocco Filippini, with whom she performs frequently in Europe, North and South America and Australia.
She is regular guest at famous International Chamber Music Festivals, where she collaborates with important musicians such as Bruno Giuranna, Richard Stoltzman, Antony Pay, Boris Pergamenscikov, Menahem Pressler, Franco Petracchi, Klaus Kangiesser, Reiner Kussmaul, Michel Portal, Peter Lukas Graf, Arnold Steinhart, Pepe Romero, Irish Chamber Orchestra, etc. In 1992 Mrs. Sirbu has joined as leader and soloist the celebrated Italian chamber group "I Musici" with whom she performs regularly all over the world and recorded numerous CDs for Philips.Since 1994 she is also founder member and leader of the "Quartetto Stradivari" group which is frequent guest of numerous Concert Societies and International Music Festivals worldwide.
After her graduation, she has been assistant teacher at the class of Stefan Gheorghiu at the Music Academy in Bucharest, she held numerous master classes in Spain, Ireland, Holland, Canada - Banf School of Arts-, France, Switzerland, China, Japan and Italy; she taught for several years violin and chamber music to post graduate students in the "Scuola di Musica di Fiesole" - Florence - Italy. At present she teaches violin at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelhsson Bartholdy” in Leipzig, Germany and she is visiting Professor at the Irish World Academy of Music & Dance, University of Limerick, Ireland.
She has made several LPs and CDs for PHILIPS, DECCA, Schwan-Harmonia Mundi, Dynamic and UNICEF. Among her most recent CD releases are the complete series of Violin Concertos and Capriccios "L'Arte del Violino" by Locatelli, the Twelve Violin Concertos from "Il Cimento dell'Armonia e dell'Invenzione" and the "Concerti per Anna Maria" by Vivaldi, for Philips. Mariana plays the "Conte di Fortana" Stradivarius used by Dvid Oistrakh for much of His career.
MA Classical Strings Performance
19 February, 2008
