Andrei Ioniță is the winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow – 2015 edition and other international competitions such as: 1st Prize at the International Cello Competition David Popper (2009), 1st Prize at the Khachaturian International Competition (2013), 2nd Prize International ARD Music Competition (2014) and 2nd Prize at the Grand Prix Emanuel Feuermann in Berlin (2014).

Andrei Ioniță has performed as soloist with Hallé Orchestra and the San Diego Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic and the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Radio MDR Symphony Orchestra in Leipzig and the Romanian Youth Orchestra.

Andrei studied under Ani-Marie Paladi in Bucharest and under Jens Peter Maintz at the Universität der Künste Berlin. A scholarship recipient of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, Andrei performs on a cello made by Giovanni Battista Rogeri from Brescia in 1671, generously on loan from the foundation.

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