Bio : Artists

Ioana Galu : Violin II

Ioana Gulu, a native of Romania, earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Gheorghe Dima Music Academy of Cluj. Before coming to the United States, she served on the faculty of the Music Academy as Assistant Professor of Violin and Chamber Music. She earned a second master degree in violin performance from Bowling Green State University and then continued her studies at the Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music. Her passion for new music brought her back to Bowling Green State University to pursue the Doctorate of Musical Arts in Contemporary Music. She has been awarded prizes in several national and international competitions, including Second Prize in the Mozart International Competition for Piano Trios (Romania) and First Prize and Special Prize of the SOROS Foundation at the George Enescu Violin National Competition (Romania). She also won Second Prize in the Starling Violin Competition College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati (CCM) and was the winner of the CCM Concerto Competition in February 2004. Galu has performed recitals in Romania, Budapest (Hungary), Dusseldorf (Germany), Lyon and Villecroze (France), and Bowling Green, Toledo, Cincinnati and New York City.  Most recently, she appeared as soloist with the Jackson Symphony Orchestra, the Southern Great Lakes Symphony, and the Perrysburg Symphony.  Since September 2004, she has been on the faculty of the Heidelberg University Department of Music. Between 2006 and 2009 she served as the concertmaster of Central Ohio Symphony in Delaware, and she is now the co-concertmaster of the Southern Great Lakes Symphony.