Born in Romania (1985), Vlad Maistorovici started composing at age 9 and moved to the UK at age 16 to study violin at the Yehudi Menuhin School. His teachers have been Natalia Boyarskaya, Felix Andrievsky and Pierre Amoyal. He studied composition with Mark-Anthony Turnage and Jonathan Cole at the Royal College of Music and is an alumnus of the Britten-Pears Programme. At age 17 he was awarded the Composition Gold Medal at the Enescu International Festival for his string quartet Night Music. ‘Catchy and sonorous’ (Musical America Worldwide), featuring ‘vivid contrasts’ (London Financial Times) and ‘clarity of expression’ (AM Bucharest), his music has been performed by the LSO, LPO, EUCO, and OJM in the UK, Romania, France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Belgium, USA. Leader of Ensemble Contrechamps Geneva, he is an active performer of classical repertoire and contemporary music.