Radu Marian

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Radu Marian in concert with ensemble aliusmodum.

Radu Marian was born in 1977 in what was then the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic to a family of Moldovan artists.

His exceptional musical talent started at the age of seven and executed in French the aria: Queen of the Night of Mozart’s Magic Flute. He is gifted with a pure soprano voice in the range of C4 to C6 considered at present a great talent of Baroque music. Marian completed his singing and piano studies in Moscow and in Bucharest, obtaining the title of Concert Master, with great merits.

He was granted a scholarship by the Moldovan government and under Flavio Colusso received vocal training in Italy. His repertoire incorporates cantatas written for soprano by composers like Handel, Bononcini, Carissimi and Frescobaldi and the repertoire of the old castrati. The renowned conductor Flavio Colusso affirms that Radu Marian is a sopranista whose voice is different from the other countertenors and sopranistas, of the Baroque music world. His voice does not sound like a falsetto's, but like that of a soprano. Marian is an "Endocrinological castrato" or "natural castrato".