Valentin Răduțiu
- Cello
Praised by the Süddeutsche Zeitung for his “glowing, distinctive and exciting masculine tone” as “one of the great cello-talents of our time” (Süddeutsche Zeitung, 2013), cellist Valentin Răduțiu was born in Munich and received his first cello lessons from his father at the age of six. He later studied in Salzburg, Vienna and Berlin with Clemens Hagen, Heinrich Schiff und David Geringas.
Valentin has won national and international competitions, was distinguished several times at the “Jugend musiziert” competition and the Dotzauer Competition in Dresden, and won first prize at the International Karl Davidov Competition in Riga. In 2011 he was honored with the Music Prize of German Business, one of the most important prizes for up-and-coming young musicians in Germany. In 2012 Valentin Răduțiu won second prize at the International Enescu Competition in Bucharest.
He has performed with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Czech Philharmonic, Münchener Kammerorchester, Camerata Salzburg, Bucharest’s Filarmonica Enescu and the Radio-Symphony-Orchestra, the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, to name a few. He also has appeared at the Berliner Philharmonie, Munich’s Prinzregententheater, Philharmonie and Herkulessaal, the Konzerthaus Berlin, Philharmonic Hall Riga, Konserthuset Stockholm, Bucharest Atheneum, Hong Kong City Hall.
Valentin has been heard at numerous festivals, including the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Heidelberger Frühling, Cellobiennale Amsterdam, Honk Kong Arts Festival, SoNoRo Festival, Fürstensaal Classix, Klangspuren Tirol.