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A partnership with San Francisco Symphony’s Community Chamber Concert
Saturday, 5/4/2024
1:00 - 2:00
Mission Bay Program Room
Mission Bay
Address

960 4th Street
San Francisco, CA 94158
United States

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Listen to a chamber concert featuring San Francisco Symphony musicians Victor Romasevich and Florin Parvulescu. Romasevich and Parvulescu will perform classical pieces from a range of composers and share their experiences as members of the San Francisco Symphony. 

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Victor Romasevich was born in Minsk, Belarus, and started piano studies with his mother, Lena Lubotsky, at the age of four. He entered the Gnesin Music School in Moscow at age five as a violin student of Mikhail Garlitsky and later studied with Rostislav Dubinsky of the Borodin Quartet, Boris Belenky at the Moscow Conservatory and, following his emigration to the United States in 1977, at Juilliard with Ivan Galamian. In 1979 he became a violin and viola pupil of the composer and philosopher Iosif Andriasov. Winner of the Gina Bachauer Prize at the 1985 J.S. Bach International Competition in Washington DC, Mr. Romasevich joined the San Francisco Symphony as Associate Principal Viola in 1990 and in 1992 moved to the first violin section. 

 

Florin Parvulescu joined the San Francisco Symphony first violins in 1998. A native of Romania, he was previously a member of the St. Louis Symphony and Baltimore Symphony, won the 1993 Marbury Competition at the Peabody Conservatory, and was a prizewinner in the 1994 Yale Gordon Concerto Competition. He also attended the American Academy of Conducting at the Aspen Music Festival.