Razvan Popovici
Viola

Born into a family of musicians, Razvan Popovici studied in Salzburg, Paris and Freiburg with Peter Langgartner, Jean Sulem, Wolfram Christ and Christoph Wyneken. He is founder and executive director of the Chiemgauer Musikfrühling Festival in Germany and of the SoNoRo Festival in Bucharest. He was appointed executive director of the Europalia Festival 2019/20 in Brussels.
Razvan is a member of the Ensemble Raro, with which he tours regularly Europe, Japan and North America. As a soloist Razvan has appeared in venues such as the Théatre-dés-Champs-Elysées in Paris, the Cologne Philharmonie, and the Prinzregententheater in Munich with orchestras such as the Kobe Chamber Orchestra, the Cologne Chamber Orchestra, the Romanian National Radio Orchestra and the George Enescu Philharmonic Bucharest under the baton of Shlomo Mintz, Christian Badea, John Axelrod, Christoph Wyneken and Tomas Djupsjöbacka.
As a chamber musician Razvan is a regular guest at some of the most renowned festivals in the world such as Lucerne Festival, Wiener Festwochen, Rheingau Musikfestival, Kuhmo Chamber Music and Stavanger Festival. Razvan has performed extensively with artists such as Natalia Gutman, Giovanni Sollima, Vilde Frang, Barnábas Kelémen and Lawrence Power as well as the Szymanowski, Vertavo and Schumann Quartets. He gives master classes in Europe, Japan and South America. He teaches regularly at the Villa Musica Foundation in Mainz and since 2017 at the Royal Conservatory in Antwerp.