Liviu Prunaru
Ch. de la Chiesaz, 10
1806 St-Legier
Telephone/Fax: +41 21 9435394
Mobile: +41 78 7096614
Email: liviu@tiscalinet.ch

Violinist Liviu Prunaru has won the top prizes and gained international recognition at all of the most prestigious International Violin Competitions in the world. Mr. Prunaru was the 1997 Gold Medallist of the Dong-A International Violin Competition in Korea, Silver Medallist of the 1998 Indianapolis International Violin Competition in the USA, Silver (2nd Grand Prize) Medallist at the 1993 Queen Elizabeth in Brussels, Gold Medallist at the 1991 Rodolfo Lipizer International Violin Competition in Italy, and Gold Medallist at the R. Molinari Violin Competition in Switzerland, among many others.
Mr. Prunaru made his New York City debut with the Juilliard Symphony in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall after capturing the 1st grand prize in the Juilliard Mendelssohn Competition. Also in 1999, Mr. Prunaru won the 1st grand prize at the E. Nakamichi Wieniawski Violin Concerto Competition resulting in performances with the Aspen Young Artists Orchestra.
Mr. Prunaru has been featured as a soloist with: the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, Belgium National Orchestra, Westdeutsche Sinfonia, Athens Philharmonic Orchestra, Bari Symphony Orchestra, Bucharest Radio-Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Mayo of Buenos Aires, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, the Meridian Symphony, Mississippi Symphony, the Juilliard Symphony, and the Puchon Philharmonic Orchestra in Korea among many others. Mr. Prunaru has collaborated with many renowned conductors including Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Yuri Simonov, Andrew Litton, Peter Braschkat, Georges Octors, Cristian Mandeal, Lukas Vis, Horia Andreescu, Mario Benzecry, and Park Eun Seong. Mr. Prunaru performs frequently as a soloist and in recital in all major cities in the world.
In the 2001-2002 season, Mr. Prunaru will be performing extensively in North America, Switzerland, Argentina, Belgium, Germany, Italy, France, and Holland.
Mr. Prunaru has performed at many prestigious Festivals including the Menuhin, Enescu, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Wallonie, Flanders, Evian, Athens, and Salzburg Festivals.
Mr. Prunaru has recorded many CDs with Camerata Lysy, as well as his own debut CD featuring works by Strauss, Brahms, Gluck, de Falla, Saint-Saens, and Sarasate with pianist Luc Devos, which is released by Pavane Records.
Born in Craiova, Romania, Mr. Prunaru began his violin studies at the age of 6 with Professor Oprisan. His teachers: Mr.Berbec, Madame Mailat, Ms.Adriana Carpen and Ms.Cornelia Bonzetti, guided him through his early years. During this period he won seven national competitions and 1st prize at the International Kocian competition of Czechoslovakia. Then in 1990, Mr. Prunaru was invited by violinist and Maestro Alberto Lysy to study with him at the renowned Menuhin Academy of Gstaad, Switzerland, where he worked among great artists like Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Igor Oistrakh, Ruggiero Ricci, Nikita Magaloff, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Peter-Lukas Graf, and Pierre Amoyal.
Mr. Prunaru recently completed his professional studies with Miss Dorothy DeLay in New York, where he also actively participated in Master Classes with Itzakh Perlman. Currently a professor at the Menuhin Academy in Switzerland and former assistant of Miss Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School in New York, Mr. Prunaru is performing on a 1676 Guarneri violin graciously loaned to him by Professor M. Muller.

"Technical mastery...he can turn a single phrase with one note..."
The Strad

"If a musical paradise exists, it must resemble the violin of Liviu Prunaru...luminous, limpid, radiant...a single phrase suffices for the audience to hold their breath, suspended by his bow...with this Romanian all music flows from the source effortless, with all the natural elegance of youth..."
Le Soir

"The bow of Prunaru draws a true sonorous beauty and is rendered with exceptional ease, all in simplicity, but with what grandeur! Luminous...a radiant seduction but at the same time, a penetrating sensitivity."
La Grande Fancy Fair d'Anvers

"...he possesses not only an accomplished technique and style, but also a very large repertoire...he can play everything!"
Auxipress, Juillet Musical d'Aulnes, Belgium

"The vibrato and authenticity of Prunaru resembles that of the young Menuhin."
Jean-Michel Molkhou, Diapason