Valentin Radutiu

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Valentin Radutiu (* 1986 in Munich ) is a German cellist of Romanian descent.

Career

Radutiu learned to play the cello from his father Emil Radutiu, a cellist with the Munich Radio Orchestra. He fled Romania in 1977 by taking a concert tour of his orchestra with his cello and concert clothes.

Radutiu later studied in Salzburg , Vienna and Berlin with Clemens Hagen , Heinrich Schiff and David Geringas . Valentin Radutiu lives in Berlin.

Awards

Praised by the Süddeutsche Zeitung for his “excitingly unique, energetic, enchanting singing up high, always clearly contoured, male tone in the lower registers”, Valentin Radutiu is one of the rising cellists of his generation.

Honored many times at the "Jugend musiziert" competition, in 2008 he won 1st prize at the International Karl Davidov Competition in Riga. In 2011 he was honored with the German Business Music Prize. In 2012 Valentin Radutiu won the 2nd prize at the International Enescu Competition in Bucharest. From the 2012/13 season Valentin Radutiu was supported as a “stART” artist by Bayer Kultur with concerts and project funding.

collaboration

Valentin Radutiu gave concerts a. a. with the following orchestras:

His chamber music partners included u. a. the Hagen Quartet , Ewgeni Boschanow , Antje Weithaas , Julian Steckel , Ib Hausmann, Diana Ketler, Alissa Margulis, Igor Ozim , Alina Pogostkina , Razvan Popovici, Rolando Villazón and the 12 cellists of the Berliner Philharmoniker .

Radutiu played under the conductors Jiří Bělohlávek , Wolfram Christ, Ruben Gazarian , Gustavo Gimeno , Pablo Gonzales, Stanislaw Kochanowski, Jérémie Rhorer, Leoš Svárovsky and Radoslaw Szulc.

Stages

He kicked u. a. in the: Hong Kong City Hall , Berlin Philharmonic , and Konzerthaus Berlin , Munich Philharmonic in Gasteig, Herkulessaal Munich, Prinzregententheater Munich , Glocke Bremen , Rheingoldhalle Mainz , Great Guild Hall Riga, the Athenaeum in Bucharest and at numerous festivals (including Schleswig- Holstein Music Festival , Heidelberg Spring , Cellobiennale Amsterdam, Intermezzo Vilnius, Hong Kong Arts Festival, SoNoRo Festival Bucharest).

Discography

Radutiu has released several CD recordings with the pianist Per Rundberg: In addition to the debut CD, which was released in 2011, there is an album with works by Lalo, Ravel and Magnard and the first complete recording of the works for cello and piano by George Enescu on Hänssler Classic in front. The first CD recording of Peter Ruzicka's cello concerto and cello chamber music documents the intensive collaboration with the composer and conductor. After the album “Remembering the rain” by jazz pianist Benjamin Schaefer , a recording of classical cello concertos with the Munich Chamber Orchestra was recently released. Next publications at Hänssler Classic are cello concertos by Haydn, Janson and Christian Bach with the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn as well as a duo recording with the pianist Evgeni Boschanow and works by Sergei Wassiljewitsch Rachmaninow and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky .

  • 2016: Joseph Haydn: Concerto for Violoncello and Strings No. 1 in C major

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Violoncello in D major (after the Horn Concerto KV 447)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Concerto for Violoncello in B major, Wq. 171

with the Munich Chamber Orchestra under Stephan Frucht

  • 2015: Remembering The Rain - A Jazz View

with Benjamin Schaefer (piano) and Marcus Rieck (drums)

  • 2014: Peter Ruzicka: works for violoncello, Valentin Radutiu violoncello, Per Rundberg piano, Camerata Salzburg, conductor: Peter Ruzicka
  • 2013: George Enescu: Complete Works for Violoncello and Piano (first complete recording)

with Per Rundberg (piano)

  • 2012: Édouard Lalo: Sonata for violoncello and piano

Albéric Magnard: Sonata for violoncello and piano op.20

Maurice Ravel: Sonata for violin and piano (arranged for violoncello) with Per Rundberg (piano)

  • 2011: Robert Schumann: Five pieces in the folk tone, Op. 102 César Franck: Cello Sonata in A major

Peter Ruzicka: Recitativo for cello and piano (first recording) Camille Saint-Saëns: Introduction & Rondo capriccioso, op.28 with Per Rundberg (piano)

instrument

Radutiu plays a violoncello by Francesco Ruggieri (Cremona, 1686).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Valentin Radutiu on the classic column of sueddeutsche.de, accessed on April 7, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d Valentin Radutiu onkammerphilharmonie.com, accessed on April 7, 2017
  3. ↑ start - Bayer Culture. Retrieved April 9, 2017 .
  4. ↑ teresa59dos: 7 (7) STARS OF TOMORROW 22.12.13 Rolando Villazón "Élégie" (Massenet). December 23, 2013, accessed April 9, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Cello Concerts - Hänssler Classic / Profil Webshop. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 9, 2017 ; Retrieved April 9, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / shop.haensslerprofil.de
  6. ↑ Valentin Radutiu. Retrieved April 10, 2017 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Radutiu, Valentin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cellist
DATE OF BIRTH 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich