Andrei Dinescu
ARTISTIC COORDINATOR
Andrei Dinescu is a musician. He started studying the violin in 1995 at the National College of Music “George Enescu” in Bucharest. He continued his classical music studies with prestigious musicians, such as Ion Voicu, Aurelian Anghelescu, and Daniel Podlovski. At the age of 7, in 1992, he performed his first concert at the “Nottara Museum” in Bucharest. Between 1993 and 1999 he participated in numerous international and Romanian competitions, winning multiple prizes as a violinist (1st prize in Italy, Strasa, 1st prize in Italia, San Bartolomeo). Since 2005 he has been studying and producing experimental and electronic music.
He is professionally skilled in handling numerous musical instruments such as guitar, synthesizer, saz, trumpet, theremin, sitar, bass, drums and percussion, electric violin, and various other electronic instruments.
Andrei started to focus on Balkan music in 2009 and 2011 began with his collaboration with Dana Cenușa. They developed together the first humanitarian project for the inmates in the Juvenile Penitentiary in Craiova, Jilava, and Rahova. From this, the anti-discrimination show “Shamanelism” was born. He performed numerous concerts in this show format together with young and adult inmates from juvenile penitentiaries.
In 2013, he established the Recording Studio in the Mogoșești village, where he was visited by great artists from the world of traditional Roma music (Ionică Minune, George Ness, and many others).
He founded the bands, Steaua de Mare, in 2019, and Impex in 2017. He performed in concerts from stages of Moscow and Hamburg together with Rodion G.A. Also, in 2019, he took part in the musical project “Taraf de Impex”, created together with Taraf de Haidouks for the “Europalia International Arts Festival”, in London.