STUDENT
SPOTLIGHT
Sharon Chen is a senior at West Chester University majoring in violin performance and anthropology. This semester, she is playing in the WCU Symphony Orchestra, the WCU Chamber Orchestra, and 2 string quartets. She works as an assistant of the Pennsylvania Youth Orchestra. Her hobbies include performing violin and viola, learning new things, reading, and playing video games.
FACULTY
SPOTLIGHT
Ovidiu Marinescu, one of the outstanding musicians of his native Romania, is active as a cellist, conductor, composer, and educator. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Weill Hall, Merkin Hall (New York), the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Holywell Room in Oxford, Oriental Art Center in Shanghai, and many other prestigious places. Marinescu has 10 album releases for Parma Recordings and Cambria as a cellist, conductor, or chamber musician, and several recordings released independently, including the Bach Cello Suites. Marinescu also has commissioned and performed many new works for cello solo. Equally successful as a conductor, he served as the Music Director of the WCU Symphony Orchestra, Immaculata Symphony and Manalapan Orchestra, as well as conductor for the Wilmington Orchestra and Goppisberg Festival Orchestra in Switzerland. His guest conducting includes the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra in Moscow, the Chamber Orchestra of the Romanian Radio, “New Russia” State Orchestra, the Bacau, Craiova, Ploiesti, Botosani, Targu Mures, and Brasov Philharmonics in Romania, Filarmonica de Gaia in Portugal, Orquesta de Extremadura in Spain, the Helena, Newark, and Southeastern PA Symphony Orchestras, as well as Vidin Sinfonietta in Bulgaria.
