Vlad Agachi

Vlad Andrei Agachi (born 20 May 1982, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) is a Romanian orchestra conductor. He is a graduate of the Music College "Sigismund Toduta" in Cluj-Napoca, main instrument - trombone, under the guidance of Dumitru Muresan. He studied at the University of Music in Bucharest, first at the section of interpretation-trombone then he moved on to orchestra conducting under the guidance of two famous Romanian conductors: Petru Andriesei and Dumitru Goia. In the year 2006 he won a Erasmus scholarship at the Karol Lipinski University in Wroclaw, Poland, where he studied with conductor Marek Pijarowski.

Agachi first produced himself as a trombonist and he collaborated with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra and orchestra Schumscki in Bucharest, and various orchestras from Cluj, Pitesti, Ramnicu Valcea, Galati. He participated at a number of jazz festivals and won a series of awards in National Music Competitions in Sibiu, Pitesti and Arad.

Agachi switched to an orchestra conductor with the R20 Orchestra in Wroclaw, Poland, under the patronage of the Romanian Cultural Institute. Afterwards he had a series of concerts throughout the country but also abroad like the 2007 concert with the National Chamber Orchestra in Chisinau, Moldavia. He made a notable appearance together with the Transilvania Philarmonic Orchestra in Cluj-Napoca, where he conducted a clarinet concert by Gerald Finzi featuring Romanian clarinetist Razvan Proptean, followed by a string concerto by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

His latest concert was with the George Enescu Philharmonic at the Bucharest Atheneum where he conducted the most important pieces of Eugen Doga (author of soundtracks for films like "Procustes' Bed" or "Queen Margot"). Vlad Agachi is currently a student at the University of Music in Bucharest, where he is completing his masters in orchestra conducting together with conductor Dumitru Goia.