Violinist Mihai Craioveanu is an international concert artist with global outreach from New York’s Carnegie Hall (including two returns by popular demand) and Tokyo City Opera Hall, to Shanghai Festival, Barcelona’s Palau de la Musica, Tel Aviv’s Felicia Blumenthal Arts Center and Bucharest's Atheneum Hall. He was also featured in the American nationally televised music programs Joy of Music and Hour of Power as well as international festivals of Edinburgh in Scotland, and Banff, Canada. His San Francisco solo debut at the renowned Herbst Theater is scheduled for December 2026.

Hailed by the prestigious magazine The Strad, as “stunning… brilliant,” Mihai Craioveanu has concertized to great acclaim throughout the world. Legendary pianist Radu Lupu and renowned violinist Jaime Laredo describe him as “very impressive” and a “superb violinist.” Critics (The Strad) described his Carnegie Hall recital debut as “fresh and distinguished with a keen appreciation of proper style.” Following his Washington, D.C., recital debut at Corcoran Gallery, the Washington Post praised his playing as “Dramatic, nuanced and playful. His violin became his voice. Craioveanu ensured that it was the music, and not the musician, that came first.”

Craioveanu’s concert and recital repertoire is large: a unique and eclectic blend of classical style, jazz, fiddle, tango, Broadway and film music arrangements, and non-western music as well as rarely performed virtuoso romantic concertos such as those of Richard Strauss, Gabriel Faure, Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy, Henri Viewxtemps and the Chinese Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto.

Albums and live performance videos can be streamed on his professional YouTube channel.

Craioveanu is a first prize winner of several international music competitions, including:

• New York Classical Music Competition, New York City, USA (2025)
• Grand Prize Virtuoso International Music Competition, Paris, France (2025)
• Virtuoso International Music Awards, London, England ( 2025)
• European Virtuoso Music Awards, Berlin, Germany (2024)
• Grand Prize Virtuoso International Music Competition, Vienna, Austria (2024)
• Golden Classical Music Awards International Competition, Tokyo, Japan (2026)
• Grand Prize Virtuoso International Music Competition, Oxford, England (2024)
• American International Music Competition, Cleveland, USA (2025)
• International Schubert Music Competition, Vienna, Austria (2026)

He has given concerts, masterclasses, and residencies at major music schools, including:

• Northwestern University
• Interlochen Arts Academy
• University of Illinois
• California State University-Fullerton
• The American String Workshop at the University of Michigan
• University of Iowa
• National University of Music, Bucharest
• International Summer Master Classes at the University of Transylvania, Romania

In addition, he has been invited to present lectures, concerts and master classes and to judge competitions at regional and national conferences of the American String Teacher Association and the American Music Teacher National Association.

Mihai Craioveanu’s interest in contemporary music has led to premiere performances of works written for him by American composers, notably among them the world premiere of “Velocirhapsody” for violin and orchestra by Ray Shattenkirk, with the West Michigan Symphony and Holland Symphony Orchestra. 

Craioveanu received his violin performance degrees from the University of Music in Bucharest, and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, where he studied on a prestigious British Council Scholarship and was a winner of the coveted International Concert Recital Diploma. He also received fellowships to study at the International Summer Music Institute at the Franz Liszt Conservatory in Weimar, Germany, and the International Youth Music Festival in Brussels, Belgium.

Mihai Craioveanu is an avid reader of fiction and non-fiction novels, and enjoys travel. His interests outside the music field include art, world history, alternative medicine and quantum physics.