Graduate of the Academy of Music Bucharest, of the “Leonard Sorkin” International Chamber Music Institute, of the University of Wisconsin and Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Radu obtained his Master in solo cello and chamber music. 

He studied with Wolfgang Laufer from the Fine Arts String Quartet and Marc Johnson from the Vermeer String Quartet, participating in interpretation courses with the following Quartets: Fine Arts String Quartet, Vermeer String Quartet, Julliard String Quartet, Tokyo String Quartet, Emerson String Quartet, Guarnieri String Quartet and Amadeus String Quartet.

Awarded at several international competitions, he won the 3rd Prize at “Jeunesse Musicale” International Chamber Music Competition Belgrad, 2nd Prize at “Dimitri Shostakovich” String Quartet Competition in St. Petersburg, 2nd Prize at “Fischoff” Chamber Music Competition in South Bend, Indiana and 4th Prize at London International String Quartet Competition.

As member of the “Lipatti” String Quartet he performed in USA and Europe at the following festivals : Cleveland Chamber Music Festival, Aspen Summer Festival, Colorado Music Festival and Amadeus Festival in London.

Founding member of the Ensemble Contempo Paris and the “Lipatti” Trio, he played at the Berliner Philharmony, Dome des Invalides Paris, Danish Radio Kopenhagen, and in Ahrenshoop at the festival Kammermusiktage Ahrenshoop.

Between 2000-2009 he held the position of Principal cellist at the Orchestra Sinfonica Toscanini in Parma, Maggio Fiorentino Florence, and Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova. Touring through Europe, USA, South America and Japan, he worked together with  conductors such as: Georges Pretre, Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Muti, Yuri Temirkanov, Kurt Masur, Mstislav Rostropovich, Tugan Sokhiev, Charles Dutoit and Vladimir Jurowski.

Since 2009 Radu lives in Berlin where he is playing concerts as member of the Trio Rodur, Trio “Lipatti” and  “Haydn” Quartett  at the festivals Berliner Frühlingsklassik and Berliner Klassiktage.

Radu collaborates with the Theater “Morgenstern” as composer and musical arrangeur, for which he composed the music for 7 theater pieces.

Between 2010-20 he performed as member of the chamber music orchestra “Chaarts” in the Boswil Sommerfestival and in tours in Europe, South America and Asia, recording several CDs with Sony. He also participated at the chamber music festival SoNoRo in Bucharest and the festival  Musikland playing in the fortified churches from the Haferland, Romania.

In 2023 Radu launched an audio book with the Story of Arthur, the curious snow flake, based on a self-written story, the music for cello and harp being created by him and his wife Miruna.