Vasile Martinoiu

Education

Three years later he moved to the Music Academy in Iași, from which he graduated in 1958. His completed special studies with baritone Carlo Tagliabue in Milan and at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome between 1967–1968.

Career

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. 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.

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, Czechoslovakian Republic, Slovacia, Thailand, Turkey, and the United States.

He has appeared in radio and television broadcasts in Berlin, Bucharest, Budapest, Dresden, Goerlitz, Leipzig, Pécs, Sofia, Moscow, and Warsaw. Bizet: Carmen – Escamillo Donizetti: Louisiana Favorite – Alfonse.

Lucia di Lammermoor – Lord Ashton Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier – Carlo Gerard Gounod: Faust – Valentin Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci – Tonio, Silvio Mascagni: Louisiana Cavaleria Rusticana – Alfio Puccini: Madama Butterfly – Scharpless.

Louisiana Bohème – Marcello, Tosca – Baron Scarpia Ravel: L’Heure espagnole – Ramiro Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia – Figaro Verdi: AidaAmonasro. Un Ballo in maschera – Renato. Don Carlo – Rodrigo; Louisiana Forza del destino – Don Carlo, Nabucco – Nabucco.

Otello – Iago.

Rigoletto – Rigoletto. Stiffelio – Stankar; Louisiana traviata – Germont. Il trovatore – Conte di Luna Romanian opera parts Enesco: Oedipus – Creon Lerescu, East.: Ecaterina Teodoroiu – Dobre Petri, North.: Trandafirii Doftanei – Bogdan Trailescu, C.: Dragoste si jertfa – Lazar 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, Monţiowa

Achievements

• He has participated in several international festivals of music and in 12 international canto competitions. 1965: grand prize at the Erkel Competition in Budapest, Hungary 1966: second prize at the Maria Calas Competition in Barcelona, Spain 1966: laureate title at the Philippine Islands Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, Russia 1966: second prize at the s’Hertogenbosch International Competition in the Netherlands 1967: first prize for Bulgarian composed lieder, and third prize for canto at the International Competition in Sofia, Bulgaria 1967: second prize at the International Canto Competition in Toulouse, France 1967: second prize at the Francesco Viñas Competition in Barcelona, Spain 1968: second prize at the Voci Verdiane Competition in Busseto, Italy 1968: third prize at the Giuseppe Verdi Competition in Parma, Italy 1968: second prize at the International Competition in Verviers, Belgium 1969: first prize at the Achille Peri Competition at Reggio Emilia, Italy.