Victor Romanul

Victor Romanul was a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra violin section from 1992 to 2025. He performed as soloist 16 times with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops, performing concertos by Korngold, Beethoven, and Bruch, and music of Sarasate. His debut performance with the BSO was at the age of 13 as a BSO youth concerts competition winner under Harry Ellis Dickson, and at 15 he performed Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen and Navarra with the Boston Pops and Arthur Fiedler. As a Fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center, Romanul won the Pierre Mayer award for Outstanding String Player. After studying with Jascha Heifetz, he joined the Pittsburgh Symphony at age 21 and was promoted a week later to Associate Concertmaster, a position that he held for six years, performing the Beethoven concerto with Myung-whun Chung and the Dvořák concerto with Zdeněk Mácal. With André Previn, Romanul recorded a national TV program for PBS, viewable on YouTube. After leaving Pittsburgh to tour as a soloist for several years, he joined the Boston Symphony in 1992, serving as Assistant Concertmaster 1993-95. The BSO has streamed many of  Romanul’s performances of solo repertoire by Paganini, Sauret, and Bach, and William Grant Still’s Suite for Violin and Piano recorded from the Symphony Hall stage. Romanul’s first violin teacher was former BSO Associate Concertmaster Alfred Krips. He also worked with Ivan Galamian and Joseph Silverstein. Romanul’s repertoire has included concertos by Glazunov, Bach, Brahms, Paganini, Chausson, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Vivaldi, José White Lafitte, and many others. In recital, Romanul has frequently performed the 24 Paganini caprices, the six Ysaÿe sonatas, and the Bach solo sonatas and partitas. He performed the complete 10 Beethoven sonatas over three concerts at the Goethe-Institut in Boston. In 2016, he wrote an article for Strings Magazine about his career, and in 2019, MEL Magazine featured him as one of 10 performers from around the world whose performances could make one like classical music.