Razvan Popovici – viola
Born in Bucharest into a a family of musicians, Razvan Popovici studied in Salzburg, Paris and Freiburg with Peter Langgartner, Jean Sulem and Wolfram Christ. His other mentors were Tabea Zimmermann, Paul Coletti, Wifried Strehle, Thomas Riebl, the Hagen Quartett and Peteris Vasks.
As a soloist he has appeared in the Théatre-dés-Champs-Elysées in Paris, the Cologne Philharmony and the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden.
As a chamber musician he has performed with Konstantin Lifschitz, Rainer Kussmaul, Alexander Lonquich, Thomas Brandis, Daishin Kashimoto, Baiba Skride, Carolin Widmann, Alina Pogostkina, Mihaela Ursuleasa, David Cohen, Adrian Brendel, Gilles Apap, members of the Amadeus Quartet, casal and Voces Quartets at the Wiener Festwochen, Schwetzinger Festspielen, Harrogate Festival, Open Chamber Music in Prussia Cove, Ferrarra Musica, Oxford Chamber Music Festival, Boswil Sommer and Kobe Music Festival, as well as in halls like the Wigmore Hall and the South Bank Centre in London, the Atheneum in Bukarest, the Essen Plilharmony and the Prinzregententheater in Munich.
As a member of the Ensemble Raro, he tours regularly Europe, Japan and North America. In the season 2009/10 he performed in the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Musashino Hall in Tokyo and both in the Konzerthaus und Musikverein in Vienna.
Razvan played as an extra player with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and has been guest principal violist in many orchestras including the Cologne Chamber Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Essen Philharmonic and the Kobe Chamber Orchestra.
He recorded extensively for radio and television including BR, SWR, BBC Radio 3, MTV, RFI, DRS2, TVR and RRM.
Razvan gave master classes in the Czech Republic, Japan, Italy and Romania.
Razvan is founder and director of the Chiemgauer Musikfrühlingin Traunstein and chamber music series Pélerinages in Munich, Germany and of SoNoRo Festival in Bucharest, Romania.
