Deborah Craioveanu · Viola

Deborah Lindner Craioveanu, music director and founder of the Holland Area Junior Strings, is in demand as a solo performer, chamber musician, lecturer, and teacher. An exciting and energetic performer on both the violin and the viola, Ms. Craioveanu has given concerts throughout the United States, Mexico, Great Britain, Spain, Switzerland, and Romania along with radio and television appearances. In West Michigan, she is often heard on the Saugatuck Chamber Music Festival series, Hope Faculty recitals, and Herrick Library Concert Series. Ms. Craioveanu has been a guest lecturer at several of the American String Teacher's National Conventions and for the Chicago Viola Society; founded and directed the Hope Pre-College Chamber Music Program, and has served on the faculties of the Jefferson Academy of Music and Hope College. In addition to her Master of Music degree, Ms. Craioveanu studied in International Master classes with Max Rostal in Bern, Switzerland, and with Yfrah Neaman in London, England, where she obtained an Artist's Certificate from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her teachers have included Michael Davis, Max Rostal, Harold Byers, Erich Gruenberg, Yfrah Neaman, and Catherine Tait. Deborah is married to violinist Mihai Craioveanu, and they have a five-year-old daughter Michelle.