| Bogdan Vacarescu |
Something About Bogdan Vacarescu Bogdan was born on 12 March 1977 in Bucharest, Romania. In 2008, Bogdan was invited by Oscar-winning composer Gabriel Yared to perform the violin solos throughout the soundtrack for the film Adam Resurrected, recorded at Abbey Road Studios. In 2007, Bogdan and two of his friends (Vladimir Jocic – guitar and Josef Secnik – bass ), started the east European group Paprika Balkanicus. Then the group was joined by Milos Milivojevic and Zivorad Nikolic - accordion. Within just a few weeks from its birth, the group was asked to play in some of the most popular clubs in London and major festivals such as Royal Festival Hall, Glastonbury Festival, Secret Gardens, Edinburgh fringe, Exit and many others as well as world tours. Between the years 2002 and 2006 Bogdan was a part of the Graffiti Classics string quartet with which he made world tours and festivals. In 1996 he was selected to be a part of the World Youth Orchestra and in 1997 he was selected to play in a concert in the Verbier Festival (Switzerland) in a septet with the great violinist Nigel Kennedy. Bogdan obtained 1st and 2nd prizes in violin and chamber music competitions and also made numerous recordings in Television and Radio in different countries. Throughout his career he has had many recitals all over the world and played, with different philharmonic orchestras, some of the major violin concertos such as Paganini, Brahms, Vieuxtemps, Lalo, Mendelssohn, Bach and others. He was 4 years old when he started playing violin under the lead of Beno Schwartzman, a remarkable teacher of Romanian violin school. Since 1990, he has continued his studies with Professor Paul Ratz, soloist, composer and concertmaster at the Bucharest National State Opera Orchestra as well as professor at the "University of Music" in Bucharest, where he was his student. Bogdan graduated the Music High school - “George Enescu”, and finished the University of Music in Bucharest where he also achieved the bachelor degree in the year 2000. In 2003, Bogdan graduated from the London Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with the reknowned professor Gyorgy Pauk, with a Diploma in Postgraduate Performance. |
