Faculty Recital:
Monday, March 2, 2026
Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre
Performing Arts Center
7:30 PM
Ovidiu Marinescu, cello
Carl Cranmer, piano
ARTIST PROFILES
Ovidiu Marinescu is internationally recognized as a cellist, composer, conductor, and educator. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Weill Hall, Merkin Hall (New York), the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Holywell Room in Oxford, Oriental Art Center in Shanghai, and has appeared as soloist with the London Symphony, New York Chamber Symphony, the National Radio O rchestra of Romania, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Helena, Great Falls, Portsmouth, and Newark Symphonies, Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Philharmonic, Limeira Symphony in Brazil, Orquesta de Extremadura in Spain, Sinfonietta Vidin (Bu lgaria), and most of the professional orchestras in his native Romania. Mr. Marinescu’s MOTO series of recordings, featuring contemporary works and developed with Parma Recordings, has been praised as “bold and expressive” (Gramophone Magazine) and “tight, musical, technically virtuosic” (The Whole Note). Moto was followed by Journey, with several piano trio albums, and now, Resurgence, with the 3rd set of cello and piano recordings to be released in 2026. Since the launch in 2012, MOTO , Journey, and Resurgence series ha ve premiered works by more than one hundred composers in both recordings and performance at Carnegie Hall.
Equally successful as a conductor, Marinescu has worked with the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra , Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of the Romanian National Radio, “New Russia” State Orchestra, the Orchestra Society of Philadelphia, the Bacau, Craiova, Ploiesti, Botosani, Targu Mures, and Braşov Philharmonics in Romania, Filarmonica de Gaia in Portugal, Orquesta de Extremadura in Spain, the Helena, Newark, and Southeastern PA Symphony Orchestras, as well as Vidin Sinfonietta in Bulgaria.
His compositions have been performed in Romania, China, Brazil, Bulgaria, Russia, Guatemala, Montenegro, and across the United States. Marinescu has been composer -in-residence for the International Chamber Music Festival in Guatemala City and the 7th edition of the International String Encounters in Limeira, Brazil. For the 2026-27 Marinescu will be composer -in-residence with Helena Symphony, MT. His Concerto for Two Cellos, String, and Percussion was co -commissioned by seven orchestras in 2020 with funding from West Chester University. The Seven Dreams of Frida Kahlo, for clarinet and string quartet was premiered by Detroit Symphony Musicians in October 2024 , with subsequent performances.
Marinescu is cello professor at West Chester University in Pennsylvania as well as founder and Artistic Director of the International Musicians Academy .
Carl Cranmer is an internationally acclaimed pianist who has performed with renowned ensembles such as the Royal Philharmonic of England, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Juilliard Orchestra. Praised by the New York Times for his technical mastery and lyrical expres siveness, Carl has appeared in prestigious venues worldwide and currently serves as a professor of piano at West Chester University.
PROGRAM
Suite No. 3 in C major for Cello Solo, BWV 1009.................................................................................Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
I. Prélude
II. Allemande
III. Courante
IV. Sarabande
V. Bourrée I / Bourrée II
VI. Gigue
Nocturne in 3–4 for Cello and Piano......................................................................................................................Warren Gooch (b. 1957)
Tango for Cello and Piano(1999)
Eugenio Toussaint (1954–2011)
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Sonata in A Major for Cello and Piano, FWV 8(arr. Jules Delsart)....................................................................César Franck (1822–1890)
I. Allegretto ben moderato
II. Allegro
III. Recitativo-Fantasia: Ben moderato - Molto lento
IV. Allegretto poco mosso
Ovidiu Marinescu , cello Carl Cranmer , piano
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Ovidiu Marinescu , cello
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