Cellist Radu Nagy graduated from the “Ciprian Porumbescu” Academy of Music in Bucharest and continued his advanced studies in the United States at the Leonard Sorkin Chamber Music Institute of the University of Wisconsin and at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, where he earned a master’s degree in music. These studies gave him the opportunity to work with renowned professors such as Wolfgang Laufer and Marc Johnson, members of the Fine Arts Quartet and the Vermeer Quartet. His talent has been recognized through prizes won at numerous prestigious national and international competitions, including Jeunesse Musicale in Belgrade, the Dimitri Shostakovich String Quartet Competition in Saint Petersburg, the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in South Bend, and the London International String Quartet Competition. He has performed on some of the world’s most important stages, including those in New York, Tokyo, Berlin, Paris, and Buenos Aires.

He has appeared at renowned festivals, including the Cleveland Chamber Music Festival, Aspen Summer Festival, Ravenna Festival, the Amadeus Festival in London, Niedersachsen Musikfestival, Philharmonie Berlin, Danish Radio in Copenhagen, Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Hamburg, Chiemgauer Musikfrühling in Bavaria, SoNoRo, and the Boswil Sommer Musikfestival in Switzerland. As principal cellist of the Arturo Toscanini Orchestra, Radu had the opportunity to collaborate with world-class conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Kurt Masur, Yuri Temirkanov, Georges Prêtre, Riccardo Muti, and Vladimir Jurowski. Radu Nagy works in Bucharest and Berlin, where he is active as both a teacher and concert artist. In addition to performing, since 2012 he has also dedicated himself to composition, improvising and composing music for the Morgenstern children’s theatre in Berlin. He has created music for more than 40 productions, and in 2024 he composed and performed the music for the festival “MARATHON of 30 Stories,” based on children’s rights, which involved the collaboration of 30 schools from Berlin.