Sergiu Nastasa

An invitation to the Sofia Philharmonic's season opening on 30 September 2004 brought Sergiu Nastasa into an evening built around the sixtieth anniversary of Apostol Kaloferov, with Jossif Radionov, Apolon Gramatikopulos, Michel Michalakakos and Stefan Popov also on stage. Born in Bucharest in 1962, Nastasa had his first violin lessons at the music college of the city and graduated from the Bucharest music university; at thirteen he appeared as soloist with the Bucharest Radio Symphony Orchestra in Novacek's Prelude. He played in the Ploiesti Symphony Orchestra, the George Enescu Philharmonic and the Bucharest Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra while serving as concertmaster of the orchestra of the University of Bucharest, and in the autumn of 1990 joined the Orchestra of Colours at the invitation of Manos Hadjidakis. Since 1991 he has played with the Camerata - Friends of Music Orchestra in Athens, and from 1996 as its concertmaster, recording with it works of Theodorakis, Hadjidakis, Mamangakis, Antoniou and Skalkottas under Neville Marriner, Christian Mandeal and Miltiadis Caridis. He is a member of the Echo String Quartet.