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GRANT PARK ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS. CARLOS KALMAR, principal conductor. CHRISTOPHER BELL, chorus director. presented by the CHICAGO PARK DISTRICT, THE CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS, and THE GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION
   
 
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Cristina Muresan Biography

Romanian born violinist Cristina Muresan started studying violin at the age of 7. She holds a Bachelor in Music Performance from “G. DIMA” Music Academy Cluj-Napoca, Romania, where she studied with emeritus Stefan Ruha, and a Master in Music Performance from Bowling Green State University, where she studied with professor Vasile Beluska. She was also awarded a full fellowship to study with the late Isaac Stern in 1999.

Joining Chicago's Grant Park Symphony in 2001, Ms. Muresan recorded yearly with the orchestra for Cedille Records and enjoys radio and TV broadcasts. Since her solo debut with the Toledo Symphony in 2001, she has enjoyed yearly solo performances with the symphony. She has also been featured as soloist with the Bowling Green Chamber String Orchestra. Since 2004, Ms. Muresan has been a substitute member of the Detroit Symphony performing under Neeme Jarvi and other great conductors.

Ms. Muresan has performed several concerts across United States and Europe in prestigious venues like Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Barbican Center London, Cite de la Musique Paris and Musikverein Wien, and participated in festivals like Chautauqua, New York Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara, CA, Kent Blosson, OH, Spoleto, Italy, Aix en Provence, France, Colorado Music Festival, Boulder, and Grant Park Symphony in Chicago. Cristina served as a full time violinist for the Opera Orchestra, Cluj-Napoca, Romania between 1992-1995.

Prior to joining the Toledo Symphony's first violin section, she performed as concertmaster with the New World Symphony, under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas in Miami Beach, Florida. Founding the “Odyssey” string quartet she enjoys yearly recitals in Toledo Symphony's chamber series and she was featured on WGTE’s “Live from FM 91.”

As a concertmaster for the Bowling Green Philharmonia, Cristina recorded “The Composer’s Voice” CD released on Albany Records, New York, and “Beethoven Alive” with the New World Symphony broadcasted on CBS’ “Sunday morning.”

Ms. Muresan currently resides in Ann Arbor where she has a private violin studio. Her students are recipients of many awards and hold title orchestra positions. Her interests and hobbies are reading, French, Italian, biking, marathons, cooking and traveling. Cristina plays a violin made by the French luthier Paul Bailey, dated 1890.
 
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