Bogdan
Bacanu

As one of the most influential marimba players of his time, Bogdan Bacanu is praised in the press for his tone and deep musicality. Since the age of 23, he has been professor of marimba at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz, making him the youngest professor of his subject worldwide.
In 1998, he was named ‘Musician of the Year’ in Australia, and in 2010 he received an honorary professorship from Sichuan University in China. He also taught marimba at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

Bogdan Bacanu studied at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with his great mentor Peter Sadlo. Since then, he has given solo concerts as well as concerts with orchestras and ensembles and has toured throughout Europe, Asia and America.
He has performed with renowned artists such as Keiko Abe, Gidon Kremer, Peter Sadlo, Heinrich Schiff and Momoko Kamiya. He has worked on various concert projects with
conductors such as Dennis Russell Davies, Kent Nagano, Seiji Ozawa, Cristian Mandeal and Horia Andreescu, as well as leading orchestras.
Concerts have taken him to music festivals such as The Biennal in Brisbane, the Lockenhaus Music Festival, the Grafenegg Festival, the Wörthersee Festival, the Carinthian Summer, the Danube Festival and the “les museiques” Festival in Basel.

Bogdan Bacanu is a long-standing lecturer at the International Summer Academy Mozarteum Salzburg and a sought-after guest juror at international marimba competitions.
Following the great and ongoing success of his own marimba festival, he finally founded an international marimba competition in 2006, which took place under his direction in cooperation with the University and International Summer Academy Mozarteum Salzburg and the Bruckner University.
Composers such as John Thrower, Alexander Müllenbach and Emmanuel Sejourne wrote and dedicated works and concerts to him, some of which he released on CD and which have since become standards of marimba literature. His
diverse discography includes solo recordings as well as concert recordings with orchestra.

He has released further albums with the Wave Quartet, which he founded (including on Sony Classical), with which he gives international concerts.
Bogdan Bacanu plays exclusively on ADAMS marimbas. The renowned instrument maker developed a ‘Bogdan Bacanu Signature Series’ of marimba mallets named after him and presented a marimba developed with him and named after him at the Musikmesse
Frankfurt in 2015.