Cellist Laura Buruiana was born in 1980 in Bucharest, Romania. She studied at the National University of Music in Bucharest with Marin Cazacu, Serban-Dimitrie Soreanu, Vasile Tugui and at the Musikhochschule in Cologne with Frans Helmerson. Buruiana won both the European and the International “Young Concert Artists Auditions” in Leipzig (2002) and New York (2003) as well as the “Premio Arturo Bonucci” in Italy (2004). Concert engagements have taken her to such prestigious venues as the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Konzerthaus and Philharmonie Berlin, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Shanghai Grand Theatre and the Kaufmann Hall in New York. She has performed in festivals such as the Rheingau Musikfestival, the Berlin Young Euro Classic Festival, the Usedomer Musikfestival, the Spoleto Festival and the Enescu Festival in Bucharest. She has also appeared as soloist with orchestras such as the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle in North Carolina, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Bari, the Canton Symphony Orchestra, the Romanian Radio and Philharmonic Orchestras in Bucharest and other orchestras in Romania. Her radio recordings have been broadcasted in several European countries. Since 2004 Buruiana teamed up with pianist Martin Tchiba as a duo with international concert and recording engagements.
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