Rasvan Dumitru began
studying violin at the age of four with Victor
Andreescu. Between the ages of 7 and 18, he studied at
the Brasov Arts High School with Maria Mireanu, and
since 2003 has been enrolled at the Gheorghe Dima Music
Academy in the class of Victoria Nicolae. In 2003, he
won first prize at the Constanta Performance Competition
and at the Brasov National Music Competition. In 2004,
Rasvan Dumitru was awarded first prize at the Cornelia
Bronzetti International Competition, winning the Rotary
Atheneum prize in Bucharest and the Ferdinand Weiss
Chamber Music Competition in Cluj-Napoca the following
year.
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SEMI-FINALS
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Sonata No. 1 for solo violin, in G
minor
BWV 1001
SERGUEĎ PROKOFIEV Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 94a
SCOTT GOOD And dreams rush forth to greet the distance
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS Introduction and Rondo capriccioso
Op. 28
NICCOLŇ PAGANINI Caprice Op. 1 No. 14 in E-flat major
FINALS
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Concerto in D major, Op.
ADDITIONAL INFO
1- What do you like most about music? (Why did you
decide to become a violinist?)
To begin with, at the age of four, I hadn’t chosen
anything: chance and paternal wishes had decided things
for me and I naturally tried to play the part assigned
to me. But then, “tout le reste,” as Verlaine put it,
“est littérature” [all the rest is literature]. A
sensitive child, I discovered that words didn’t work for
me, they were not enough. To boldly quote George Enescu:
“If one were to attempt to translate the expressive
content of a Beethoven adagio into prose or poetry,
words would soon fail. Music above all!” So, what I like
most about music is music itself. It is the most complex
language, but it can be heard and understood by everyone.
2- Which composers or what works are you particularly
drawn to? (What music would you bring with you to a
desert island?)
Bach’s sonatas and partitas, and the sonatas of Mozart
and Beethoven.
3- Who are your favourite violinists (dead or alive)
and why?
David Oistrakh, Jacques Thibaud, József Szigeti, Yehudi
Menuhin, Fritz
Kreisler, George Enescu, Itzhak Perlman, Maxim Vengerov,
Liviu Prunaru,
Stefan Ruha, among others. Why? Just because of who they
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