Ioana Galu

Violin Soloist

May 14, 2009

Ioana Galu, a native of Romania, earned the Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in violin performance from Gheorghe Dima Music Academy of Cluj. Before coming to the United States, she served on the faculty of the Music Academy as Assistant Professor of Violin and Chamber Music. She earned a second master degree in violin performance from Bowling Green State University and then continued her studies at the Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music. Her passion for new music brought her back to Bowling Green State University to pursue the Doctorate of Musical Arts in Contemporary Music. Galu’s most important teachers were Victoria Nicolae, Vasile Beluska, Yim Won Bin, and Penny Thompson Kruse.

Galu has performed in master classes for the Voces String Quartet, Amernet String Quartet, Alexandru Gavrilovici, David Erlich, Stefan Milenkovich, Annette-Barbara Vogel, Kiss Ladislau, Trio Kadek, Jacques Saint-Yves, Sherban Lupu, Devics Sandor and Wolfram Just. In addition, in 2000, she earned a scholarship to study at the Académie musicale de Villecroze, France.

She has been awarded prizes in numerous national and international competitions, including Second Prize in the Mozart International Competition for Piano Trios (Romania), and First Prize and Special Prize of the SOROS Foundation at the George Enescu Violin National Competition (Romania). She also won Second Prize in the Starling Violin Competition College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati (CCM) and was the winner of the CCM Concerto Competition in February 2004.

Galu has performed recitals in Romania, Budapest (Hungary), Dusseldorf (Germany), Lyon and Villecroze (France), and Bowling Green, Toledo, Cincinnati, and New York City. She appeared as soloist with several orchestras in Romania, the CCM Orchestra, the Heidelberg College Orchestra, and the Perrysburg Symphony in 2005 and 2007. Since September 2004, she has been on the faculty of the Heidelberg College Department of Music and became the director of the Preparatory Department in September 2005.

Currently, she teaches at Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, N.C., and is a member of the Eastern Festival Orchestra. Between 2006 and 2008 she served as the concertmaster of Central Ohio Symphony in Delaware.