BIOGRAPHY

 "I have composed for Sabina Dascalu a Fantasia-capriccio for solo violin on themes from a tango by Julio de Caro which she has approached with much enthusiasm and dedication, demonstrating a spirit open to new music, pouring it in turn with beautiful sound and musicality."

                      Lucio Bruno-Videla (Composer, conductor- Buenos Aires, Argentina)

 "Sabina is such a versatile performer - she plays with all the range I could want: from delicate sounds to really bringing the fire for powerful passages, tied together with refined musicianship and sensitivity. I highly recommend her for your recording productions." 

                                     Kristopher Carter, Emmy Award-Winning Composer

''Violinist with solid technique and vivacious musicality''

                     Enrique Mazzola, Music Director Designate at Lyric Opera of Chicago

Sabina Dascalu is a romanian violinist based in Vienna, Austria, member of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and Solists of Vienna Chamber Orchestra. At the beginning of 2023 she became a member of Moravská filharmonie Olomouc. She performs concert-tours in Europe, Asia, South America under the baton of great conductors such as Philippe Entremont, Enrique Mazzola, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Julian Rachlin, Wayne Marshall, Benjamin Bayl and prestigious soloists, among which Elina Garanca, Dalibor Karvay, Fumiaki Miura, Yevgeny Subdin, Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, Sebastian Knauer, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Stefan Vladar, Elena Bashkirova . 

Ms. Dascalu is a recording artist at Synchron Stage Studio in Vienna, creating film music recordings for Hollywood, Netflix, BBC. Brilliant projects, including scores of Hans Zimmer, Arturo Cardelus, Bear McCreary, Lorne Balfe. Among the movies, Oscar-nominated ''Over the moon'' (2020) and ''Klaus'' (2019). 

Since 2020, Sabina Dascalu has been Orchestra Manager and Concertmaster at Pretium Scoring. Music recordings in the Vienna Konzerthaus, Treehouse Studios Vienna, Vienna City Sound, for excellent documentaries, musicals, TV series.

She is a member of Malaysia Philharmonic Orchestra since 2019 and she travels regularly to Kuala Lumpur.

In addition to her appearances as a soloist, chamber music has become an important aspect of Sabina's artistic work. She is currently a member of Duo Dascalu-Rudi.

Between 2015 and 2018, Ms. Dascalu worked as a violin teacher at "International Musikschule Wien" and "Studio Allegria". She is currently teaching private students.

Born in Bucharest, Romania, Sabina Dascalu took her first violin lessons at the age of 6. She studied in Bucharest at ''G. Enescu'' music highschool as well as in Vienna, at the University of Music and Performing Arts, in the class of Prof. Christian Altenburger (violin) and Johannes Meissl (chamber music). She became Magistra artium in 2015, after graduating with the highest distinction. In 2016 followed a postgraduate specialization in baroque violin with Hiro Kurosaki. She attended numerous masterclasses with members of Wiener Philharmoniker, Oslo String Quartet, Marianne Piketty, Jose Vazquez. Over the years, she performed at music festivals such as A. Prokopp Summeracademy of Wiener Philharmoniker in Salzburg (Austria), Summer Music Academy Schloß Hundisburg (Germany), Sonoro Chamber Music Festival (Romania) with many ensembles, covering a wide range of chamber music as well as orchestral repertoire. Sabina Dascalu has been awarded numerous prizes at international and national violin competitions and scholarships among which the ''Dr. Boesch Foundation'' scholarship.

Ms. Dascalu currently plays a Georg Klotz violin (1766).