Marian Tănău, violin


Romanian-born violinist Marian Tanau first picked up the violin at age four and began his musical education in his hometown of Timisoara in Romania. He graduated from Liceul de Muzica “Ion Vidu” where he studied violin with Maria Cleşiu. He then left for the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca and the Conservatorul de Muzica “G. Dima,” where he earned an Artists Diploma. Later in the US, he earned a graduate degree from Bowling Green State University at the class of Vasile Beluska. Tanau joined the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 1995.

Tanau has appeared as a soloist with orchestras in Romania and the US and is an active chamber musician. Since 2004 Tanau joined the violin faculty at Wayne State University. In 2005 Tanau was awarded a sabbatical year and moved temporary to Romania where he joined the music faculty at the National College of Art “Ion Vidu” and the Music Conservatory of the West University from Timisoara. His recording of the violin sonata by Paul Paray, recorded for Grotto Productions, got praised by critics in the prestigious Strad, Gramophone and Fanfare magazines.

Marian Tănău founded the American Romanian Festival which took place for the first time in 2005.