Versatile musician Ovidiu Marinescu has been active as a cellist, conductor, composer, and educator. Beyond his native Romania, he has been active in the U.S., Western Europe, and Russia, where he has conducted a series of recordings of American music.
Marinescu was born in Bucharest in 1965. He is unconnected to the film producer of the same name. During his early childhood, he and his family of five lived in a one-room apartment with a wood stove and no running water. He passed a singing audition and was allowed to study music; strict Communist-regime rules allowed third-gr...