in collaboration with St. Peters Chamber Music

Our 2008 Master Class with

Liviu Prunaru

Concertmaster,

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam

was a huge success!! 

Romanian violinist Liviu Prunaru has won the top prizes and gained international recognition at all of the most prestigious international violin competitions in the world, including the gold medal in the 1997 Dong-A International Violin Competition in Korea, and silver medal in the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels.  Currently he serves as Concertmaster of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam.

Mr. Prunaru made his New York City debut with the Julliard Symphony in Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall after capturing the first grand prize in the Juilliard Mendelssohn Competition.  He has been featured as soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, and Belgium National Orchestra, among many others.

Born in Craiova, Romania, Mr. Prunaru began his violin studies at the age of 6.  He completed his professional studies with Miss Dorothy DeLay in New York, where he also actively participated in Master Classes with Itzakh Perlman.  Currently a professor at the Menuhin Academy in Switzerland and former assistant of Miss Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School in New York, Mr. Prunaru is performing on a 1676 Guarneri violin graciously lent to him by Professor M. Muller.