An Irish violinist of Romanian origin, Ioana is an established soloist and chamber musician living in Northern Ireland with her musician husband and two little daughters.
Ioana's solo appearances with orchestra have featured Khachaturian, Shostakovitch, Bruch, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Mozart and both Prokofiev Violin Concertos as well as works by Saint-Saens, Wieniaswki, Mozart, Vaughan Williams and Sarasate and concertos by Bach performed both on modern and baroque violin. Ioana is soloist on two CDs released by RTE and gave the world premier of 'Elastic Harmonic' for Violin and Orchestra by Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy on Irish national television.
A keen chamber musician, Ioana is former 1st violin and founder member of the Callino Quartet with whom she enjoyed a full and varied performing career spanning seven years including concert tours, festival appearances and recordings, the latest release being 'Veer', a disc of Ian Wilson's string quartets. In duo partnership she has performed the complete Beethoven Piano and Violin Sonata cycle and has performed most of the major duo repertoire extensively. As a chamber musician, she has performed in such prestigious venues as London's Wigmore Hall, Dublin's National Concert Hall and Manchester's Bridgewater Hall and at many international festivals - Cheltenham, Ryedale, Bergen, Heidelberg Fruhlungs, West Cork Chamber Music, Kilkenny Arts, Clandeboye, Sligo New Music, 'Up North' and others. Ioana is currently a member of Ensemble Avalon and is guest violinist with various ensembles alongside her full-time position as Associate Leader of the Ulster Orchestra.
Ioana's studies took her from Ireland through France, obtaining the Premier Prix a l'Unanimite at the age of sixteen, to the UK where she was awarded a 1st class Honours BMus degree from the London Royal Academy of Music before returning to Ireland to receive a 1st-class MA in Performance from the Cork School of Music.
Ioana plays on a wonderful Eberle violin, on generous loan from a private collector.