Йоана Гойчеа

Appointed professor of violin at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna at twenty-seven, Ioana Cristina Goicea was born in Bucharest in 1992 and studied with Radu Popescu, Rudolf Stamm and Ștefan Gheorghiu before working with Mariana Sîrbu in Leipzig, Petru Munteanu in Rostock and Krzysztof Węgrzyn in Hanover. She took first prize at the Michael Hill International Violin Competition in 2017 and at the German Music Competition in 2018, with further prizes at the Fritz Kreisler, Indianapolis and Queen Elisabeth competitions, and she plays with orchestras across Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand as well as in chamber music. Her recordings appear on Atoll, Genuin and Naxos. A first prize at the Johannes Brahms competition belongs with the others, and she was artist in residence with the George Enescu Philharmonic for the 2024-25 season.