Bogdan Vacarescu will perform a wonderful violin concert at The Good Life Festival.

The Good Life was created by Cerys Matthews and Charlie and Caroline Gladstone who have put together a day of the very best Culture, Food and the Great Outdoors. This will be a voyage of fun and discovery for the whole family.
Watch Cerys perform...learn to throw and axe or fire an arrow…cook on a campfire with Tom Herbert of The Fabulous Baker Brothers…abseil…learn how to cook with Bill Granger…eat some spectacular British food…learn how to make sausages or skin a rabbit...discover your new favourite beer…dance to Paprika….take time out with some yoga…learn bushcraft. This and loads more is The Good Life Experience.

Bogdan made his solo debut at the age of fourteen performing Vieuxtemps Concerto no. 4 with the Brasov Philharmonic conducted by Ionescu-Galati. He soon appeared under the baton of many prestigious conductors including Carol Litvin, Daisuke Soga (Japan), Petre Sbârcea, Ludovic Bacs, Antonio Ardinghi (Italy), Anthony Randall (UK), with the Bucharest Radio Orchestra, Sibiu Philharmonic, Ploiesti Philharmonic, Sinfonia Cambrensis (UK), performing major concertos by Paganini, Brahms, Lalo, Mendelssohn, Bach, Wieniawski, Bruch and others.
Bogdan has won national and international violin and chamber music competitions since he was five, when he was awarded first prize at the national competition Cântarea României. Following this he won many other competitions.
Bogdan has made numerous recordings on television and radio across the world on Romanian National Radio and Television, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, BBC Wales and Manchester, ABC Australia, performing Bach Sonatas and Partitas, Paganini Caprices and solo works. He is particularly known for performing Bazzini’s The Round of the Goblins, Sarasate’s Habanera and arrangement of Carmen (Bizet), as well as music by Hubay and Kreisler. He has also recorded soundtracks for films and documentaries, most notably in collaboration with Gabriel Yared, BBC and ABC Television.