Equally at home as a soloist and as part of a chamber ensemble, violinist Mihaela Martin has collaborated with musical greats such as Kurt Masur, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Martha Argerich, Radu Lupu, Leon Fleisher, and Menahem Pressler. As a young musician, she won top prizes at the International Tchaikovsky Competition, the Montreal International Music Competition, the Queen Elisabeth Competition and the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. She credits Silvia Marcovici and the great pedagogue, Stefan Gheorghiu, with whom she studied for 10 years, as key influences in her development as an artist.
Martin left Romania in 1986 and has since resided in Germany, where she now teaches at the Barenboim-Said Akademie. She is a regular guest at many chamber music festivals, and pursues her intense love for chamber music as member of the Michelangelo String Quartet, which she helped found in 2003.
