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Andrei Ionita

Cellist Andrei Ioniță won several of classical music's most coveted competition prizes in the 2010s. In addition to an international career as a soloist, he also maintains a variety of collaborations as a chamber music player. Ioniță was born in Bucharest, Romania, on January 1, 1994. He generally uses the Romanian diacritical marks on his name when possible, even in anglophone contexts. Ioniță took up the piano at age five and added cello lessons three years later. Traveling to Germany for study, he attended the University of the Arts in Berlin, where his principal teachers were Ani-Mari Paladi and then Jens Peter Maintz. Ioniță received scholarship support from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben. He began to make an impact in major competitions while still a teen, winning the David Popper International Cello Competition youth event in Hungary in 2009. Ioniță went on to win the Aram Khachaturian International Competition in Armenia in 2013. The following year, he took second prizes at two German events, the Grand Prix Emanuel Feuermann in Berlin and the International ARD Music Competition in Munich. The crown in Ioniță's competition career was a first prize in the cello division of the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Russia. That opened up recording opportunities for Ioniță, and in 2017, he recorded the clarinet sonatas and clarinet trio of Brahms with clarinetist Pablo Barragán and pianist Juan Pérez Floristán; the album was released in 2018 on the IBS label. That year, Ioniță made his soloist debut with the Rococo Variations of Tchaikovsky with the Münchener Philharmoniker on that orchestra's own label. Ioniță has been very active as a recitalist, concerto soloist, and chamber music performer in the late 2010s and 2020s. He has appeared with major orchestras in Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Asia, and the U.S., including the Mariinsky Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Ioniță's recital career includes appearances at Carnegie Hall in New York as well as a variety of European summer events such as Germany's Kissinger Sommer, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and Schleswig-Holstein festivals. Ioniță's chamber music collaborators are a distinguished group that includes pianist Martha Argerich, violinist Christian Tetzlaff, and cellist Steven Isserlis. He recorded for the Orchid Classics and CPO labels before moving to Naxos in 2024, after a pause during the COVID-19 pandemic; there, he joined violinist Suyeon Kang, violist Karolina Errera, and pianist Catalin Serban on an album of piano quartets by Fauré and George Enescu.
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