Romantic Exuberance Ioana Cristina Goicea & Andrei Banciu

• Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949): Violin Sonata in E-Flat Major, Op. 18, TrV 151:
• 1 Violin Sonata in E-Flat Major, Op. 18, TrV 151: I. Allegro, ma non troppo 11:05
• 2 Violin Sonata in E-Flat Major, Op. 18, TrV 151: II. Improvisation. Andante cantabile 07:41
• 3 Violin Sonata in E-Flat Major, Op. 18, TrV 151: III. Finale. Andante - Allegro 09:30
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 - 1957): Much Ado About Nothing, Op. 11 (Version for Violin & Piano):
• 4 Much Ado About Nothing, Op. 11 (Version for Violin & Piano): I. The Maiden in the Bridal Chamber 03:04
• 5 Much Ado About Nothing, Op. 11 (Version for Violin & Piano): II. Dogberry and Verges [March of the Watch] 02:30
• 6 Much Ado About Nothing, Op. 11 (Version for Violin & Piano): III. Scene in the Garden 05:40
• 7 Much Ado About Nothing, Op. 11 (Version for Violin & Piano): IV. Masquerade [Hornpipe] 02:06
• Stan Golestan (1875 - 1956): Violin Sonata in E-Flat Major:
• 8 Violin Sonata in E-Flat Major: I. Introduction - Allegro resoluto 09:47
• 9 Violin Sonata in E-Flat Major: II. Andante sostenuto 09:11
• 10 Violin Sonata in E-Flat Major: III. Introduction - Allegro giocoso 07:53
• Total Runtime 01:08:27

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The young Romanian violinist Ioana Cristina Goicea and her piano partner Andrei Banciu draw on the full range of their talents: on their debut album, they bring late Romantic music by Richard Strauss, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and the world premiere recording by Stan Golestan to life in full color. The two winners of the competition are perfectly attuned to each other. A technically flawless rendition serves as the basis of their interpretation and is exalted by the extraordinary artistic personality of the two Romanian musicians. The romantic exuberance creates goosebumps! 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. Born in 1985 in Timisoara (Romania), Andrei Banciu began studying the piano in his home town with Maria Bodo, later continuing in Berlin at the UdK (University of the Arts) under Prof. Klaus Hellwig and at the ”Hanns Eisler” School of Music under Prof. Fabio Bidini.

Ioana Cristina Goicea, violin
Andrei Banciu, piano

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 in Indianapolis. In 2019 she was named a prize winner at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. Ms. Goicea has performed at renowned venues and festivals in Europe, Asia, America, New Zealand and Australia, among them the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, the Melbourne Recital Centre, the Shanghai Concert Hall, the Athenaeum in Bucharest, the Townhall Auckland, the Staatstheater Heidelberg and in the Slovak Philharmonic Bratislava. She has performed as a soloist with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra Bucharest, the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie and the Baden-Baden Philharmonic. In addition to her career as a soloist, the young violinist is also an avid chamber musician. In 2015, together with pianist Andrei Banciu, she won Second Prize and the Young Duo Award at the International Competition “Premio Trio di Trieste”. In 2016 she participated in the Chamber Music Academy of the Heidelberger Frühling Music Festival, in 2017 she was invited to the Hitzacker Festival and its Academy, and in 2018 she took part in the prestigious Verbier Festival Academy. Ioana Cristina Goicea was born into a family of musicians in Bucharest in 1992. She is studying with Krzysztof Węgrzyn at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. She previously studied with Mariana Sîrbu at the University of Music and Theatre “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” Leipzig and with Petru Munteanu at the University of Music and Theater in Rostock. Her career as a concert artist has been supported by the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S., the Gertrud- und Hellmut Barthel Stiftung, the DAAD and ad infinitum Leipzig, Live Music Now Hanover and the Werner Richard–Dr. Carl Dörken Stiftung. She has been a scholarship holder of the Gundlach-Stiftung, Hanover since October of 2017. As a scholarship holder of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and prizewinner at the 21st Deutscher Musikinstrumentenfond Music Competition, Ioana Cristina Goicea plays a Giambattista Guadagnini violin (Parma, 1761) generously loaned to her by the Federal Republic of Germany.

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