Winner of Remember Enescu International Competition, The Tillett Trust and a Finalist of Young Concert Artist Trust, Vlad has performed concerti and recitals that have included appearances at major venues in Europe (Wigmore Hall, South Bank Centre, The Sage Gateshead, Basilica Santa Cecilia in Rome, Salle Flagey in Bruxelles, Kulturhaus Helferei in Zurich) as well as Merkin Hall, Kaufman Center – New York and The Athenæum in his native Romania.
Born in Ploiesti, Romania (1985), Vlad is a former pupil of The Yehudi Menuhin School, where he studied with Natalia Boyarskaya. In 2008 he graduated with a BMus at the Royal College of Music, where he studied violin with Felix Andrievsky and composition with Jonathan Cole. He is currently completing a Postgraduate Diploma in Composition under Mark Anthony Turnage at the Royal College of Music and a Diplome de Soliste under Pierre Amoyal at the Lausanne Conservatoire.
Vlad combines his busy performing schedule with his great passion for composition. His music features ‘vivid contrasts’ (London Financial Times) and was described as ‘powerfully expressive’ (Actualitatea Muzicala Bucharest). A winner of The George Enescu Composition Prize and the Clive Christian ‘Sound of Perfume’ Prize, Vlad has been selected to take part in the Britten-Pears Young Composer Scheme (which resulted in a performance of Ocean Wing at the Aldeburgh Festival), the LPO Seven Minutes Soundings Scheme (which resulted in a professional commission from the LPO to be premiered in 2010), and recently the LSO Discovery Panufnik Scheme. Future commissions include a new work for the LSO and The European Chamber Orchestra.
