Recent and upcoming highlights include performances with the Montreal Symphony & Kent Nagano, Brahms Double with William Hagen at the Aspen Music Festival, Gewandhousorchester Leipzing and Chicago Symphony both with Herbert Blomstdet, and recital performances in Chicago, Washington, D.C., he made his New york debut recital in Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall, and regularly appears at the Wigmore Hall.

Andrei has performed with Martha Argerich, Christian Tetzlaff, Sergei Babayn, and Seteven Isserlis among others. He performs for major venues and chamber music festivals in Europe, North America, and Asia.

On his highly acclaimed debut solo album "Oblique Strategies," Andrei gives the world premiere recording of Brett Dean's work 11 Oblique Strategies paired with works by Bach, Kodály, and Svante Henryson. "Ionita handles [Henryson's piece] so superbly and joyfully that you're left breathless and smiling yourself…Rarely have I been so impressed on so many fronts by a debut recital album." (The Strad)

Highlights of Andrei’s 2023-24 season include performances with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich under the baton of Paavo Järvi, the Mexico Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ludwig Carrasco, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Ruth Reinhardt, the Opéra national de Lorraine conducted by Marta Gardolińska, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Newbury Festival conducted by Jonathan Bloxham. Also in the 2023-24 season, Andrei will serve as Artist-in-residence of the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra in Bucharest in Timișoara, Europe’s 2023 cultural capital.

Prior to winning the Tchaikovsky Competition, Andrei won First Prize at the Khachaturian International Competition in June 2013, and Second Prize and the Special Prize for his interpretation of a commissioned composition at the International ARD Music Competition. In 2014, he received Second Prize at the Grand Prix Emanuel Feuermann in Berlin. He was a BBC New Generation Artist from 2016-18 and was the Symphoniker Hamburg’s artist-in-residence for the 2019-20 season.

Born in Bucharest, Romania in 1994, Andrei Ioniță first became a student of Ani-Marie Paladi and later of Prof. Jens Peter Maintz at the University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin. A scholarship recipient of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, Andrei performs on a cello made by Giovanni Battista Rogeri from Brescia in 1671, generously on loan from the foundation.

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