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Ovidiu Marinescu

Versatile musician Ovidiu Marinescu has been active as a cellist, conductor, composer, and educator. Beyond his native Romania, he has been active in the U.S., Western Europe, and Russia, where he has conducted a series of recordings of American music. Marinescu was born in Bucharest in 1965. He is unconnected to the film producer of the same name. During his early childhood, he and his family of five lived in a one-room apartment with a wood stove and no running water. He passed a singing audition and was allowed to study music; strict Communist-regime rules allowed third-graders to begin only on the cello, so he took up that instrument. Soon, he was admitted to the specialized George Enescu Music High School in Bucharest. Marinescu attended the National University of Music in Bucharest (the Bucharest Conservatory), winning two top prizes at the George Dima Cello Competition. In 1991, with the fall of Communism, he departed for the U.S. with only $20 in his pocket. He earned a master's degree at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, studying with Wolfgang Laufer of the Fine Arts Quartet, and went on for a doctorate at Temple University, where his teacher was Orlando Cole. Romania's post-Communist regime did not hold Marinescu's emigration against him, and he was invited to perform at Carnegie Hall to mark the visit of Romanian President Emil Constantinescu. He went on to perform with the New York Chamber Symphony (in Beethoven's Triple Concerto, Op. 56) and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra in Russia. Marinescu remained active in Russia as a conductor, making his recording debut in 2006 with the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra with Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64, and Marche Slav, Op. 31; he went on to make several recordings of American music with that group. At Pennsylvania's West Chester University, where he joined the faculty, Marinescu has taught cello, coached chamber music groups, and led the West Chester University Symphony. He has conducted the latter group at Philadelphia's Kimmel Hall and taken it on tour in Europe. Marinescu has also toured in Europe with the Delaware Chamber Orchestra and conducted Philadelphia's Rebecca David Ballet Company Orchestra, and he has led the Wilmington Orchestra, served as music director of the Immaculata Symphony and Manalapan Orchestra in New Jersey, and been principal conductor of the Goppisberg Festival Orchestra in Switzerland. As a cellist, he has given recitals at Merkin Hall in New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. He has performed the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto with the National Orchestra of Romania in a live nationwide broadcast and has also performed as a concerto soloist with the Newark Symphony in New Jersey, the Cleveland Philharmonic, and the Orquesta de Extremadura in Spain, among other groups. Marinescu has recorded several albums for the Navona label, including one of Bach's unaccompanied cello suites. In 2023, he released the album London Cello Connection with the London Symphony Orchestra on Navona.
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