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Ilarion Ionescu Galati
conductor
 He was born on the
17th of september 1937. He graduated the Music High School in
Bucharest, and after The Academy of Music in 1959, having as
professors George Manoliu, Vasile Filip, Constantin Bobescu, Emanuel
Elenescu, George Breazul, Zeno Vancea. As a violonist he won the
First Prize at "George Enescu" Competition in 1960; as a soloist, he
played with all the orchestras of the country.
He was the first interpreter in Romania of the Concert no.1 for
violin of Sostakovitch. He had tours in China, Mongolia, France,
Spain, Russia.
He started to study conducting, first privatelly with Mircea
Basarab and then between 1965-1968, at l'École Normale Superieure
de Musique" in Paris, with Pierre Derveaux and Charles Munich,
where he obtained the First Prize with the unanimity of the jury.
In 1970 he participated at two series of courses of Eugene
Ormandy, in Philadelphia, and Leopold Stokovschi, in New York.
From 1968 to 1999 he was permanent conductor of "Gheorghe Dima"
Philharmonic of Brasov. Maestro Ilarion Ionescu-Galati was also
permanent conductor of the Musical Theatre of Brasov (1980-1985),
at the Symphonic Orchestra of Gavle-Sweden(1972-1982), at the
Symphonic Orchestra of Winterthur-Switzerland (1980-1984) and at
the Symphonic Orchestra of Istambul-Turkey. He collaborated also
with a lot of important orchestras in Europe, Asia and USA, having
under his baton all the great romanian soloists of the time and
many others from the countries in which he performed.
Besides his interpreting activity, he also had a rich teaching
activity in the contry and abroad , and he participated at
severall musical festivals or in competitions jury.
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