Vasile Martinoiu


Vasile Martinoiu is a Romanian operatic baritone. A long-time member of the Romanian National Opera, in 2004 he was made a Commander of the Ordinul "Meritul Cultural" for services to Romanian music.

Biography

Born in a family of musicians in Tirgu Jiu, Martinoiu discovered his vocal gift in his high school years, when he sang with various school choirs. After high school, he became a student at the Cornetti Conservatoire in Craiova. Three years later he moved to the Music Academy in Iași, from which he graduated in 1958.
In 1959, Martinoiu made a successful debut at the Musical Theatre in Galați as Count di Luna in Il trovatore. The Romanian Opera in Bucharest offered him the opportunity to become a permanent soloist with their organisation.
His completed special studies with baritone Carlo Tagliabue in Milan and at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome between 1967–1968.
He has performed in numerous engagements in Europe and overseas, singing at the New York City Opera, Philadelphia Grand Opera, Baltimore Opera, and the Kennedy Centre in Washington. He has toured in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Thailand, Turkey, and the United States.
He has appeared in radio and TV broadcasts in Berlin, Bucharest, Budapest, Dresden, Goerlitz, Leipzig, Pécs, Sofia, Moscow, and Warsaw.

Prizes

He has participated in several international festivals of music and in 12 international canto competitions.
;Romanian opera parts
;Vocal-symphonic works and lieder
Beethoven, Borodin, Brahms, Donaudi, Enesco, Fauré, Gluck, Grieg, Haendel, Haydn, Leoncavallo, Massenet, Mendelssohn-B, Mahler, Mozart, Rachmaninov, Respighi, Saint-Saëns, Schubert, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Thomas, Wolf
;Romanian composers
Brediceanu, Constantinescu, Drăgoi, Eliade, Gheciu, Monţia