“Ioana Cristina Goicea is a true artist, and that is what matters. She has the potential to become a star!” – Vadim Repin

Ioana Cristina Goicea is a laureate of the international competitions Queen Elisabeth (Brussels 2019), Indianapolis (USA 2018) and Fritz Kreisler (Vienna, 2014). She is the winner of the Michael Hill, Deutscher Musikwettbewerb Bonn, as well as the international Johannes Brahms and Andrea Postacchini competitions.

She has performed in renowned concert halls all over the world: Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Berlin Konzerthaus, St Martin-in-the Fields London, Roman Athenaeum, Wiener Konzerthaus, Townhall Auckland, Bozar Brussels, Melbourne Recital Centre, Meistersingerhalle Nürnberg, Shanghai Concert Hall, Konzerthaus Freiburg.

Ioana Cristina Goicea has performed as soloist with the Belgian National Orchestra, Nürnberger Symphoniker, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Auckland Philharmonia, Indianapolis Symphony, Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Filarmonica George Enescu, Orchestra Nationala Radio, Staatskapelle Halle, Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie.

Violinist Ioana Cristina Goicea was born in 1992 in Bucharest in a family of musicians. She is the daughter of the famous violinist Cristina Anghelescu and granddaughter of the pedagogue Aurelian Anghelescu.

She graduated from the “Dinu Lipatti” High School of Music in Bucharest with Prof. Radu Popescu and Rudolf Stamm and continued her studies in Germany at the Universities of Music in Rostock, Leipzig and Hannover with professors Mariana Sîrbu, Petru Munteanu and Krzysztof Wegrzyn.

Ioana Cristina Goicea is currently a professor of violin at the prestigious Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien), a position she obtained in October 2020, at the age of 27.

She has participated in prestigious chamber music academies: Verbier Academy and Heidelberger Frühling, Masterclasses at the Kronberg Academy as well as masterclasses with teachers Pinchas Zukerman, Mihaela Martin, Silvia Marcovici and Saschko Gawriloff.

She is currently playing a J.B. violin. Vuillaume, donated by a private sponsor, as well as on a modern Jürgen Manthey violin (Leipzig, 2021).