A 1st Prize Winner of the Young Concert Artists Award in New York in 2003, which was additionally garnished with five special prizes, the Romanian cellist Laura Buruiana is quickly establishing a reputation worldwide as "a bonafide virtuoso, drawing a wealth of color, drama, and flowing line from her instrument" (The New York Times) in performances where "one might guess she would also be a very fine singer. She embraces her instrument as an extension of her own body, personifying a lyricism that was fitting for an instrument whose timbre is o close to that of the human voice." (Washington Post) The same year, Laura also won the 1st Prize of the Premio Arturo Bonucci Competition in Rome.

Born in Bucharest in 1980, Laura Buruiana started playing the cello at the age of ten and studied from 1999 to 2004 with Prof. Marin Cazacu (the leading Romanian cellist, a soloist of the Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra) at the Music Academy of the Romanian capital. Further studies from 2004 with Prof. Frans Helmerson at the Cologne University of Music lead to her Master Degree in 2007. While taking part in master classes in Germany, France, the Netherlands and Romania, she also benefited from the advice of famous cellists.

As a soloist, Laura Buruiana performed the 1st Shostakovich concerto in the Berlin Philharmonie together with the Berliner Symphoniker, the Dvorák concerto with the Bari Symphony while touring Italy, as well as Bach's A Minor Concerto at the Rheingau Music Festival (Germany) with the Berlin Chamber Orchestra, in 2006. She also played with the Shanghai Orchestra in the Shanghai Grand Theatre. Under the aegis of Young Euro Classics in Berlin, she has been the soloist in the 1st cello concerto of the Romanian composer Anatol Vieru. In 2005, she made her debut at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest, taking over the cello solo part in Paul Constantinescu's Triple Concerto and was invited for a recital at the same festival in 2007 with pianist Andrei Vieru. Furthermore, she performed with all major orchestras in Romania, besides other orchestras in Europe, USA and Asia under the baton of conductors such as Oliver von Dohnányi Gerhard Zimmermann, Lorenzo Muti, Chen Xiaochen, Song Kyu Ryu, Remus Georgescu, Dorel Pascu, among others.

Due to her great success at the New York competition, she has already toured extensively the US, including concerts at Kennedy Center Washington, Kaufmann Hall New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, in Virginia, Connecticut, Ohio as well as at the Mostly Tchaikowsky Festival in Pella. Other venues and festivals in Europe included the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Diligentia Theatre The Hague and the Holland Music Sessions in the Netherlands, the Spoleto Festival and venues in Rome, Milan and Venice (UNESCO gala) in Italy, Fontainebleu Castle and the "Rencontres Franco-Roumaines" in France, the festivals at Santander and Toroella de Montgri in Spain, the Glyptotek Copenhagen, Salle Flagey in Brussels and the Bruno Walter Society in Luxemburg. In Germany, Laura appeared repeatedly at the Usedom Festival, at the EXPO 2000 in Hanover and the Saarbrucken festival. In 2004, she performed twice the complete Beethoven sonatas.

Laura Buruiana recorded CDs for the labels Naxos (the two Enescu sonatas) and Toccata (works by Vieru and Enescu), as well as for the German and Romanian broadcast. Her repertoire includes all the major cello concertos and duo works, besides a large scale of chamber music and many works of Romanian composers. Laura is now a doctoral student at the National University of Music in Bucharest, where she also has a teaching position since 2007.