Răzvan Popovici
- Viola
Răzvan Popovici was born into a family of musicians and studied in Salzburg, Paris and Freiburg with Peter Langgartner, Jean Sulem, Wolfram Christ and Christoph Wyneken. He is founder and executive director of the Chiemgauer Musikfrühling Festival in Germany and of the SoNoRo Festival in Bucharest.
He was appointed executive director of the Europalia Festival 2019/20 in Brussels. He has performed as a soloist in prestigious venues such as the Cologne Philharmonie, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest, Prinzregententheater in Munich and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, alongside ensembles such as the Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Kobe Chamber Orchestra, Romanian Radio National Orchestra, George Enescu Philharmonic, Chaarts Chamber Artists and Orchestra Comunale del Teatro di Bologna.
He has collaborated with artists such as Juliane Banse, Shlomo Mintz, Elena Bashkirova, Radovan Vlatkovic, Daishin Kashimoto, Olli Mustonen, Gilles Apap, Frans Helmerson, Nobuko Imai and Mihaela Martin. He is a regular guest at festivals around the world including the Lucerne Festival, Wiener Festwochen, Spoleto Festival, Mintz Festival Tucumán, Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival, Mittelfest Cividale, Festival Academy Budapest, and the festivals in Stavanger, Delft, Tallinn, Rolandseck, Korsholm and Kuhmo. Among the concert halls he has performed in are Carnegie Hall in New York, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna, Wigmore Hall in London, YMCA in Jerusalem, Bozar in Brussels, Philharmonie de Paris and Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. He performs internationally as a member of Ensemble Raro and is a professor of viola at the Royal Conservatory in Antwerp.
He was appointed executive director of the Europalia Festival 2019/20 in Brussels. He has performed as a soloist in prestigious venues such as the Cologne Philharmonie, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest, Prinzregententheater in Munich and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, alongside ensembles such as the Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Kobe Chamber Orchestra, Romanian Radio National Orchestra, George Enescu Philharmonic, Chaarts Chamber Artists and Orchestra Comunale del Teatro di Bologna.
He has collaborated with artists such as Juliane Banse, Shlomo Mintz, Elena Bashkirova, Radovan Vlatkovic, Daishin Kashimoto, Olli Mustonen, Gilles Apap, Frans Helmerson, Nobuko Imai and Mihaela Martin. He is a regular guest at festivals around the world including the Lucerne Festival, Wiener Festwochen, Spoleto Festival, Mintz Festival Tucumán, Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival, Mittelfest Cividale, Festival Academy Budapest, and the festivals in Stavanger, Delft, Tallinn, Rolandseck, Korsholm and Kuhmo. Among the concert halls he has performed in are Carnegie Hall in New York, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna, Wigmore Hall in London, YMCA in Jerusalem, Bozar in Brussels, Philharmonie de Paris and Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. He performs internationally as a member of Ensemble Raro and is a professor of viola at the Royal Conservatory in Antwerp.
