Event Overview:
The Friday Noon Concert Series
Irina Muresanu, violin
Alexei Ulitin, piano
Friday, October 9, 2026
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - RSVP required
(limited seating available)
Program:
Violin Concerto - Ludwig van Beethoven
I. Allegro ma non troppo
II. Larghetto
III. Rondo. Allegro
About the Artists:
Romanian-born violinist Irina Muresanu is equally in demand on both sides of the Atlantic, as she has appeared throughout the United States, Canada, the Caribbeans, Europe, Asia and South Africa. Ms. Muresanu has firmly established herself as a successful recording artist, and her adventurous programming and thematic concepts define her as a soloist, chamber musician and pedagogue. A laureate and winner of top prizes in several prestigious international violin competitions including the Montreal International, Queen Elisabeth, UNISA International String, Washington International, and the Schadt String Competition, Muresanu achieved international acclaim early on. Muresanu’s awards also include the Presser Award, the Arthur Foote Award from the Harvard Musical Association, the Creative and Performing Arts Award from the University of Maryland, a prestigious New Music USA Grant, a Pro Musicis International Award. Muresanu has recently been awarded the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar 2024 award and the Independent Scholarship, Research and Creativity Award from the University of Maryland, for her project “Infinite Strings”: the creation of a platform designed to promote violin music by Romanian composers. She is also the recipient of a three-year National Science Foundation grant and a “Grand Challenges” grant from the University of Maryland for the “Music Education for All through AI and Digital Humanities” research she is conducting at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, where she has recently been named Affiliate Faculty in February 2023. Ms. Muresanu is an avid performer of new music, having had numerous works written and dedicated to her. Her most recent releases are “Irina Muresanu plays Violeta Dinescu” of solo violin works by Violeta Dinescu (September 2023) and “Hybrid, Hints and Hooks” of solo and violin/piano works by Romanian composer Dan Dediu (October 2021), both on Métier label. Other recent recordings include Thomas Oboe Lee’s Violin Concerto (also dedicated to Ms. Muresanu) on the BMOP label, and works by Elena Ruehr for the Avie Records CD “Lift,” included on Keith Powers’ 13 Best Classical Music Recordings of 2016. She has also recorded the complete William Bolcom sonatas on the Centaur label with pianist Michael Lewin, funded by the Copland Recording Grant, and the Guillaume Lekeu and Alberic Magnard late Romantic Violin and Piano Sonatas with pianist Dana Ciocarlie for the French label AR RE-SE (“singing and soaring…[a] sizzling performance.” Fanfare). Of note among additional recordings is the world premiere recording of Marion Bauer’s Sonata for Violin and Piano with pianist Virginia Eskin for Albany Records.
A native of Kiev, Ukraine, Alexei Ulitin enjoys a vibrant career as a chamber musician, solo pianist and a teacher. Ulitin recently joined the Collaborative Piano faculty at the University of Maryland, College Park. He also serves as a piano faculty at Rowan University (New Jersey). From 2016 to 2018, he worked as a visiting assistant professor of collaborative piano at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Ulitin has worked as a member of the musical staff at several music festivals, including Aspen, Meadowmount, Siena and the Northern Lights. He has been a recipient of the New Horizons Fellowship at Aspen Music Festival for three years. His recital partners have included Stephen Wyrczynski, Emilio Colón, Daniel Perantoni, Demondrae Thurman, Anton Belov, Marian Stieber and Jon Garrison. Ulitin has won prizes in numerous competitions, including the 2014 Baltimore Music Club Competition (first prize), 2014 Wonderlic Piano Competition, 2013 Liszt-Garrison International Piano Competition, 2010 International Young Artist Piano Competition in Washington, D.C. (first prize) and 2010 Music Teachers National Association competition (Eastern Division Winner). He earned a Bachelor of Music from Rowan University, a Master of Music from the National Music Academy of Ukraine (Kiev) and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Maryland.
This project is supported in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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