Hartobanu Viktor

Subjects

Harp, harp internship, didactics of the CAS harp, chamber music/ensemble

Biography

Viktor was born into a Romanian family of musicians. He received his first harp and piano lessons from his mother. At the age of nine, he joined the young talent class at the Leipzig University of Music, where he was taught the harp by Professor Max Koch and the piano by Professor Hanns-Martin Schreiber and Oriol Plans-Casal. In 2008, he began his diploma studies in Leipzig, which he completed after just four semesters. This was followed by Master’s studies in Geneva with Prof Florence Sitruk and Brussels with Prof Jana Bouskova. From 2013 to 2015, Viktor was a member of the Orchestra Academy at the Staatskapelle Berlin, where he took part in opera, ballet and concert performances under the direction of Generalmusikdirektor Daniel Barenboim as well as Zubin Mehta, Sir Simon Rattle, Gustavo Dudamel, and others. Invitations to perform in concerts and masterclasses have taken him to many European countries and to Asia.
Winner of the Grand Prix at the international harp competition ‘Félix Godefroid’ in Namur (Belgium); second prize winner at the Reinl Foundation competition in Vienna and finalist at the USAIHC composition competition with his work ‘Chants’.