
VIOLA
Razvan
Popovici
Razvan Popovici is the initiator and artistic director of the SoNoRo Festival in Bucharest and the Chiemgauer Musikfrühling in Germany. In 2019, he was appointed co-director of the Europalia Festival in Brussels. Since 2023, Razvan has been Professor of Viola at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, Belgium.
Razvan Popovici is the initiator and artistic director of the SoNoRo Festival in Bucharest and the Chiemgauer Musikfrühling in Germany. In 2019, he was appointed co-director of the Europalia Festival in Brussels. Since 2023, Razvan has been Professor of Viola at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, Belgium.
Razvan has performed as a soloist in several European countries, including the Cologne Philharmonic, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Prinzregententheater and Gasteig in Munich, the Théatre-des-Champs-Elysées in Paris, the South Bank Centre in London, the Atheneum in Bucharest with the George Enescu Philharmonic, the Transylvania Symphony Orchestra Cluj, the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Bucharest Radio Orchestra, the Chaarts Chamber Artists, and the Kobe Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Roberto Abbado, Christian Badea, Shlomo Mintz and John Axelrod.
He is a regular guest at European festivals, including the Lucerne Festival, the Schwetzingen Festival, the Vienna Festival, the Enescu Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, the Spoleto Festival, the Festival Academy Budapest and the festivals in Delft, Jerusalem, Stavanger, Málaga and Rolandseck.
His chamber music partners were Nobuko Imai, Natalia Gutman, Radovan Vlatkovic, Daishin Kashimoto, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Benjamin Schmid, Christoph Prégardien, Mihalea Martin, Frans Helmerson, Enrico Pace, Gilles Apap, Elena Bashkirova, Juliane Banse and Giovanni Sollima.
Razvan is co-founder and member of the Ensemble Raro, with whom he performs throughout Europe, Japan and North America, including at the Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna, the Wigmore Hall in London, the Suntory Hall and Musashino Hall in Tokyo, the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Kennedy Centre Washington, the Concertgebow Amsterdam, the Teatro Cólon in Buenos Aires, the Philarmonie de Paris and the Bozar in Brussels.
Razvan gives masterclasses in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Romania, Italy and Japan and regularly teaches in projects of the Villa Musica Foundation.