The Tempest String Quartet
About Liviu Popescu:
Liviu Popescu studied the viola at the Royal
College of Music with Grigori Zhislin and is currently undertaking
postgraduate study at the Birmingham Conservatoire with Rivka
Golani. Throughout the past two years Liviu has been principal
violist of the Birmingham Conservatoire Symphony and Chamber
Orchestras; he is winner of the Alfred Gibson Viola Prize
and the Birmingham Conservatoire Strings Prize.
Liviu has also worked with the City of Birmingham Symphony
Orchestra under the baton of the world’s foremost conductors.
He participated in the 1999 Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo,
Japan and the 2001 Mizra ‘Music in the Valley’
summer music course in Israel. In June 2003, Liviu was invited
to perform in the Dacia – Romanian Music Festival based
in Birmingham.
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