The Romanian-born violinist Remus Azoitei graduated with a Master’s Degree from the Juilliard School in New York, where he had a full scholarship to study with the late Dorothy DeLay, Masao Kawasaki, as well as having lessons with Itzhak Perlman. He has also studied in London with Maurice Hasson, at the Royal Academy of Music.

Since his concerto debut at the age of eight, Remus has performed extensively as a soloist with all the major orchestras in Romania, including the Romanian National Radio Orchestra and the “George Enescu” Philharmonic. He has also been a featured soloist with other orchestras in Europe and North America, such as the Weimar Symphony, English Soloists Ensemble, Jena Philharmonic, Salzburgen Solisten, and the New Jersey Hoboken Orchestra. His recording in 2001 of the Tchaikovsky violin concerto with the Romanian National Radio Orchestra was placed in the National Golden Audio Archives.

As a recitalist, Remus Azoitei has performed in venues such as Alice Tully Hall in the Lincoln Center and CAMI Hall (New York), Wigmore Hall and St-Martin-in-the-fields (London), Sala Argenta (Santander, Spain) and at the Music Festivals of Yokosuka (Japan), Cambridge, London (England), Cadaquez (Spain), Dannenberg, Traunstein and Sylt (Germany). Remus has been broadcast on the Romanian Cultural Channel, Radio Kishinev, as well as on Concert FM in New Zealand. He has had the privilege to share the stage with artists such as Gerard Causee, David Geringas and the Voces string quartet.

Remus won the first prize at the 2000 Michelangelo Abbado International Violin Competition in Milan, and second prize at the 1999 George Enescu International Violin Competition. He has also won prizes at other international violin competitions including the Jeunnesses Musicales (1st Prize), Weimar (2nd Prize) and Michael Hill World (New Zealand, Special Prize). In 1992 he was awarded the Cella Delavrancea Prize given by the Romanian Government for valuable accomplishments in the field of culture, and in 1995 he was the only winner of the Eugen Sarbu prize, which led to his debut at CAMI Hall in New York.

In 2005 Remus is going to record the entire violin repertoire by George Enescu for Hanssler Classic. In September, he will perform the Bach Double Concerto with Nigel Kennedy in Bucharest, at the Enescu Festival.

Remus is a violin professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London.