Vlad Bourceanu was born in Bucharest in 1980.

At the age of 2 years and 3 months, he started his music lessons. At the age of 4, he won first prize piano, second prize violin in his first national music competition. Just before the age of 5, he started studies at the “George Enescu Music High School”, Bucharest.

At the age of 9, he was a guest of the London Symphony Orchestra as part of a group of otherwise 16 to 23 year old musicians. He performed at the South Bank and Barbican Centres and was interviewed on BBC Radio 3, as well as being mentioned in the Daily Telegraph as “nine-year-old virtuoso pianist and violinist Vlad Bourceanu”.

At the age of 11, after a year’s study at Rome’s Music Conservatoire, he came to London to study at the Purcell School of Music and, then, from the age of 16, at the Royal Academy of Music.

He now holds a Bachelor of Music (Performance) degree as well as the Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music (Performance) Diploma. He has studied with international professors such as Jean Harvey and Erich Gruenberg. Whilst at the RAM, he won 2nd prize in the RAM Beethoven Violin Concerto competition, at the age of only 19.

He has taken part in Masterclasses with international violinists such as Zakhar Bron, Ruggiero Ricci, Maurice Hasson and many others.

He has performed as an orchestral musician under Bernard Haitink KBE, Sir Colin Davis, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Colin Metters, Edward Gardner and many others. He led the London Philharmonic Youth Orchestra under Kurt Masur and Ilan Volkov. He has been a co-leader of the European Union Youth Orchestra in 2000, having joined it in 1997 as its then youngest and first violin section member.

As a chamber musician, he has performed with musicians such as Leeds Piano Competition finalist Chiao-Ying Chang, and performed for Maestro Gyorgy Sebok and for John Suchet. He has also performed with pianists including Catherine Dubois, Alice Demske Hansen and Jessica Chan.

He has been, amongst others, Assistant Conductor to an Opera Holland Park’s production of La Traviata, with Anne-Sophie Duprels in the title role.

As a composer, his co-composition “Variations on ‘Notations’ by Pierre Boulez” was performed by his chamber group at the Barbican Hall, in the presence of M. Boulez himself.

He has contributed, between 2007 and 2013, to the Harrow Observer as a classical music and theatre critic.

He also holds a Graduate Diploma in Law and is