RALUCA STRATULAT

Raluca Ioana Stratulat was born in 1980 in Bucharest, graduated the National Music University in Bucharest in 2003, has a Master degree from the same institution in 2005, a PhD in music since 2010 and also graduated MIDAS courses at U.N.M.B in 2013. She has participated in many classical and contemporary music festivals, solo or as member in various chamber ensembles. She was awarded several times by national and international contests, has performed in Romania, Holland, Finland, Greece, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Belgium, Italy and the US. She has performed in orchestras conducted by Jin Wang, Jozsef Horvath, Horia Andreescu, Adrian Morar and also performed many first-time auditions of contemporary music for works of Romanian and international composers. Currently she is a teacher and head of department of cameral music at the national college of music “George Enescu” in Bucharest. Besides chamber music and pedagogy activities, she has collaborated with Romanian indie bands such as Travka, Subcarpaţi or Cred Că Sunt Extraterestru. Together with Alexei Ţurcan (Travka) and Bogdan Gugu (Piteşti Philharmonic) they form the live version of Tomma Alistar and Asociaţia Kalelarga and organize several musical training courses for college students. She is a musical consultant, collaborating with the Romanian National Art Museum and Heineken Romania. For the "Lucifer" Rock-Opera, Raluca recorded both violin and viola scores.