Emanuela Buta

Biography

Emanuela Buta came from Romania in 2001 to study at Wells Cathedral School on full bursary. In 2003 she started her BMus (Hons) course at the Royal Northern College of Music where she finished with First Class Honours in July 2007. She continued her Masters of Arts course at the Royal Academy of Music studying with Professor Maurice Hasson and other artists like Zvi Zeitlin and Ivry Gitlis, achieving first class in her degree as well as winning the Doris Faulkener Solo Violin Award and the honorary Diploma of RAM. Emanuela has performed for Prince Paul of Romania and Princess Lia, who supported her studies at RAM. In between 1999-2001 she won every year consecutively the National Romanian Solo competition and was invited to have solo concerto appearances with the Arad Philharmonic Orchestra in Romania since she was seven. Emanuela had appearances on National Romanian Television, West TV and BBC1 with the Myrios Quartet. She has toured Europe, Middle East and Far East both as a soloist and chamber musician and has led on several occasions the Cardiff Sinfonietta and Sinfonia Cymru. In April 2005 she won the National Youth String Quartet Competition held in London as member of the Azzura String Quartet. Between 1997-2004 her love for chamber music was nurtured and developed while she attended courses at Pro Corda, The International Academy for Young Chamber Music Players, where she had the privilege to work intensively with many prestigious musicians including the foundation’s President Sir Colin Davies. In 2006 she was invited to take part as a soloist in the Mozart Festival A Centenary Celebration in Lincoln and as part of the Myrios Quartet she performed in festivals such as the Soviet Chamber Festival and Slav Festival in Manchester for which the quartet got high critical acclaim and won the Terence Weil Memorial Competition Prize. In May 2007 the quartet was invited to play in international chamber music festivals such as Windsor Festival, Swaledale, Norfolk & Norwich and Newbury Festivals. She was invited personally by Gianandrea Noseda, conductor of Israel Philharmonic, to play in his Settimane Musicale orchestra in Stresa, Italy in 2006 and 2008. Emanuela is now invited to teach at Pro Corda and from 2008-2014 she has been a violin and chamber music professor at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff. Emanuela has joined FeMusa String Ensemble with whom she tours in the UK and worldwide.