Valentin Radutiu, Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn & Ruben Gazarian
Biography Valentin Radutiu, Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn & Ruben Gazarian
Valentin Radutiu
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, 15.10.2013), cellist Valentin Radutiu 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 Radutiu 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 Radutiu won second prize at the International Enescu Competition in Bucharest.
Valentin Radutiu has performed with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Czech Philharmonic, the Deutsche Radiophilharmonie Saarbrücken, the Symphonieorchester of the MDR Leipzig and the SWR Stuttgart, Münchener Kammerorchester, Camerata Salzburg, Bucharest’s Filarmonica Enescu and the Radio-Symphony-Orchestra, the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, Prague Philharmonia, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn and the World Youth Symphony Orchestra and 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, and has partnered with conductors such as Wolfram Christ, Gustavo Gimeno, Pablo Gonzales, Stanislaw Kochanowski, Case Scaglione, Leoš Svárovsky and Radoslaw Szulc. He has been heard at numerous festivals, including the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Heidelberger Frühling, Cellobiennale Amsterdam, Honk Kong Arts Festival, SoNoRo, Fürstensaal Classix, Klangspuren Tirol.
Valentin Radutiu konzertiert mit Orchestern wie: Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, MDR-Symphonieorchester, Deutsche Radiophilharmonie Saarbrücken-Kaiserslautern, Radiosymphonieorchester SWR Stuttgart, Bukarester Enescu-Philharmonie und Radio-Sinfonieorchester, Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Prague Philharmonia, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, World Youth Symphony, Münchener und Stuttgarter Kammerorchester und Camerata Salzburg unter Dirigenten wie: Wolfram Christ, Ruben Gazarian, Gustavo Gimeno, Pablo Gonzales, Stanislaw Kochanowski, Leoš Svárovsky und Radoslaw Szulc. Er ist zu erleben in Sälen wie der Hong Kong City Hall, Philharmonie und Konzerthaus Berlin, Philharmonie und Herkulessaal München und dem Atheneum Bukarest sowie bei zahlreichen Festivals (u.a. Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Heidelberger Frühling, Cellobiennale Amsterdam, Intermezzo Vilnius, Hong Kong Arts Festival, SoNoRo Festival Bukarest). Zu seinen bisherigen Kammermusikpartnern zählen u.a. das Hagen Quartett, Evgeni Bozhanov, Antje Weithaas, Julian Steckel, Ib Hausmann, Diana Ketler, Alissa Margulis, Igor Ozim, Alina Pogostkina, Razvan Popovici und die 12 Cellisten der Berliner Philharmoniker. Konzerthighlights 2017 sind u.a. Aufführungen des Schumann Cellokonzertes mit der Deutschen Kammerphilharmonie in der "Glocke" Bremen und Schostakowitschs 1. Cellokonzert mit der Tschechischen Philhamonie unter Leitung von Cristian Macelaru beim Enescu Festival Bukarest.
