Ionut Pascu

Baritone and conductor both, Ionuț Pascu was born in Constanța in 1977 and studied vocal performance at the National University of Music in Bucharest, later adding orchestral conducting, a period at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan and doctoral research. Don Giovanni, Rigoletto, Macbeth, Iago, Escamillo and the Dutchman in Der fliegende Holländer are among his roles, together with the title part in Enescu's Oedipe. He has performed in Romania, Italy, France, Spain, Israel and Korea. He finished the Bucharest degree singing Don Giovanni and Marcello in La bohème, and spent three seasons as a soloist of the Oleg Danovski company in his native Constanța before returning to the university for conducting.