10.1.2024
Ioana Cristina Goicea is one of the outstanding violinists of her generation. She won First Prize at the 2017 Michael Hill International Violin Competition in New Zealand, with critics praising her passionate performance and describing her as “a new star in the musical firmament.” In 2018 she won First Prize at the German Music Competition in Bonn and was a laureate of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. In 2019 she became a prize winner of the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. She is also the winner of the J. Brahms International Competition (2013) and laureate of the ”Fritz Kreisler” International Violin Competition Vienna (2014).
Ms. Goicea has performed as a soloist at renowned venues in Europe, Asia, America, New Zealand and Australia, among them the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus Berlin, St Martin-in-the-Fields London, the Melbourne Recital Centre, Wiener Konzerthaus, Bozar Brussels, Meistersingerhalle Nürnberg, the Shanghai Concert Hall, the Athenaeum Bucharest, Townhall Auckland.
In addition to her career as a soloist, the young violinist is also an avid chamber musician.
Ioana Cristina Goicea was born into a family of musicians in Bucharest in 1992. She studied with Mariana Sirbu, Petru Munteanu and Krzysztof Wegrzyn at the Universities of Music Leipzig, Rostock and Hannover.
From Osvaldo Golijov to Béla Bartók’s virtuosic Violin Sonata and Georges Enescu’s dazzling Romanian Rhapsody, the concert is a journey through works inspired by the folk music of different cultures. On top of all this, the multi-talented South African Gareth Lubbe amazes listeners as the overtone singing viola soloist.
Jackpot
9.6.
The afternoon concert will feature pioneering works by Mozart and Schumann, works that immediately left their mark in the history of their form and never left.
Devil’s violin
11.6.
The concert will feature compositions that reflect the absurdity of war, as well as Tartini’s virtuosic Devil’s Trill Sonata.
Tales from Spain
12.6.
The concert evening with a Spanish atmosphere will include Fallen Leaves actor Jussi Vatanen.
In honorem maris
13.6.
Our homage to the sea, a tradition of the Naantali Music Festival, treads the paths laid out by Jaakko Kuusisto and Franz Schubert. Although Kuusisto did not always compose for the sea, probably not a bar of music would have been composed had he not found inspiration from his sailing trips. The chamber works Miniö […]
