Alexandru Gavrilovici

The virtuoso violin player is mostly preoccupied by 20th century music, such as Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Arthur Honegger, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, giving solo performances of prestigious violin concerts (A. Berg, I. Stravinsky, S. Prokofiev, C. Nielsen, M. Rózsa, H. Dutilleux, A. Schnittke, D. Shostakovich, B. Britten). As a soloist he has worked alongside world-renowned conductors including Gustav Kuhn, Peter Maag, Rudolf Barshai, Witold Rowicki, Dimitri Kitaiynko, Andrey Boreyko, Mario Venzago, Jan Krenz etc. He has given numerous chamber music recitals, together with Jürg Wyttenbach, Hans Heinz Schneeberger and other important Swiss musicians. From 1979 to 2013 Alexandru held the position of the first concertmaster at the Bern Symphony Orchestra in Switzerland. Alexandru Gavrilovici is founder of Academia Sighișoara (1993) and Music Campus Balchik (2014).