| Ion Voicu (October 8, 1923--February 24, 1997) was a Romanian violinist and orchestral conductor. Hundreds of excellent concerts all over the world have brought out in bold relief Ion Voicu's brilliancy as a Romanian violinist of international reputation, one of the greatest masters of our time. He was born in Bucharest where he started his musical training when only six years old, with 200 years of musical tradition in his background. A child prodigy, he was admitted at the Bucharest Royal Academy of music and completed its seven years course in only two years as a pupil of the renowned Romanian professor George Enacovitch. Later on Ion Voicu polished his art under the guidance of such celebrated violin masters namely George Enesco and David Oistrakh.Ph.D. at the Tchaikovski Conservatory. Ion Voicu have given in a fifty five years period of his career, thousands of concerts all over the world: Paris, New York, London, Rome, Vienna, Tokyo, Berlin, Stockholm, aso His annual tours have gained him enthusiastic acclaims everywhere, as respected critics attest ... "Ion Voicu has magic in his fingers and his bow", "He has poet's mind and skill of a hand that makes one think of a conjurer", "Zauberer auf Saiten", "Beifallstürme für Ion Voicu", "Ein Teufelsgeiger", "Sa technique est éblouissante et sa sonorité charmeuse", "Il est parmi les élus", "Ion Voicu se situe sur le plan des plus grands maîtres du violon", "He is one of the greatest violinists", "A lesson of violinistic ... |
