Link to the Show / Show NotesIn this week’s Inspired Minds, Sherban Lupu talks to Breandáin O’Shea about Rumania’s very special violin school, the influence of the country’s folk music and his passion for the music of George Enescu.
Sherban Lupu has performed as a soloist though-out the world. He is renowned both for his interpreatations of main-stream Western classics, and for his contemporary Rumanian repertoire. He has worked with leading Rumanian composers such as Theodor Grigoriu, Gheorghe Costinescu and Violeta Dinescu who have all dedicated works to him. Lupu specializes in the music of his native Rumania and Eastern Europe, and is regarded as one of the world's leading performers of Rumanian composer George Enescu's music. In collaboration with the composer Cornel Taranu, he finished and reconstructed Enescu’s Caprice Roumain for violin and orchestra. Lupu left Romania in the seventies to study in London at the Guildhall School of Music and took lessons and master classes with the legendary violinist and one time Enescu student Yehudi Menuhin. Later in the United States, Lupu studied with Dorothy DeLay and Josef Gingold and chamber music with Manahem Pressler. In 2000, Sherban Lupu received a lifetime achievement award from the Romanian Cultural Foundation for his efforts to promote Romanian culture and music internationally.
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