Ovidiu Marinescu

composer

Ovidiu Marinescu is internationally recognized as a cellist, composer, conductor, and educator. His compositions have been performed in Romania, China, Brazil, Bulgaria, Russia, Guatemala, Montenegro, and across the United States. Parma Recordings included I’m All Ears for solo cello on the album Moto Celeste and Rorrim No. 1. A Sort Essay on the album Through Glass. The piano trio “The Journey” is the centerpiece of the Navona Records album A Grand Journey, in a spectacular performance by Trio Casals. Marinescu has been composer-in-residence for the International Chamber Music Festival in Guatemala City and the 7th edition of the International String Encounters in Limeira, Brazil. His Concerto for Two Cellos, String, and Percussion was co-commissioned by seven orchestras in 2020 with funding from West Chester University. His recent clarinet quintet titled The Seven Dreams of Frida Kahlo is dedicated to renowned clarinetist Ricardo Morales and The Dali Quartet. Marinescu’s compositional style is eclectic, and his works are often inspired by ethnic music from around the world, such as in his recent orchestral work The Day I Started, which was premiered in May 2024 by the Westchester Chamber Soloists (NY) and uses Scandinavian tunes.

Marinescu has performed at Carnegie Hall, Weill Hall, Merkin Hall (New York), the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Holywell Room in Oxford, and the Oriental Art Center in Shanghai, and has appeared as soloist with the London Symphony, New York Chamber Symphony, National Radio Orchestra of Romania, and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra; the Helena, Great Falls, Portsmouth, and Newark Symphonies; the Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Philharmonic, Limeira Symphony in Brazil, Orquesta de Extremadura in Spain, and the Sinfonietta Vidin (Bulgaria), and most of the professional orchestras in his native Romania. Marinescu has more than 25 album releases for Parma Recordings and Cambria. His MOTO series, developed with Parma Recordings, has premiered works by nearly fifty composers in both recordings and performance at Carnegie Hall.

Equally successful as a conductor, Marinescu has worked with the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra in Moscow, the Chamber Orchestra of the Romanian National Radio, “New Russia” State Orchestra, the Orchestra Society of Philadelphia, the Bacau, Craiova, Ploiesti, Botosani, Targu Mures, and Braşov Philharmonics in Romania, Filarmonica de Gaia in Portugal, Orquesta de Extremadura in Spain, the Helena, Newark, and Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestras, as well as Vidin Sinfonietta in Bulgaria.

Marinescu is cello professor at West Chester University in Pennsylvania as well as founder and Artistic Director of the International Musicians Academy. More information can be found at marinescu.com.