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Duo De Salzburg,
Duo Performers
Yvonne and Alexander
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Duo de Salzburg was first applied in 1985. Since then the Duo have given more than 1,000 refitals and concerts in most of the European countries, North and South America and the Orient. Their presence in prestigious international music festivals include the “Pablo Cassals” at Vendrell, Ayamonte and Palma de Mallorca, Spain, “Semanas Musicales de Frutillar”, Chile, “Noord Holland Festival”, Netherlands, Festival de Wallonie and Flanders Festival, Belgium, “Luxemburg Musikhauptsstadt Europas 1995”, festivals of Quito, Ecuador, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Panama and Mexico City, Rome, Seoul and others, characterize a rich and complex concert career.

Several TV and CD recordings together with a large number of radio interviews as well as two documentary films, the most recent being, A cello sings , reflects their intense concert activities.

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Yvonne Timoianu

Solo cellist Yvonne Timoianu, an Austrian artist of Rumanian extraction, studied at the Music Academy of Bucharist and the Mozarteum of Salzburg receiving her diploma with high honors in 1983. At the same time she was awarded the Prize of Distinction from the Federal Ministry of the Arts and Research in Vienna. Her most influential teachers were Seraphim Antropov, Stefan Popov and Mstislav Rostropovich. Her concerts have taken her from Tokyo to Quinto, from Capetown to Mexico, from Delhi to Santiago Chile, from Seoul to Panama.

Ms. Timoianu has received several international awards among them, the First Prize at the International Cello Competition of Vina del Mar in Chile, the Gold Medal and First Prize of the International String Competition of the University of Pretoria in South Africa.

As a guest soloist in renowned festivals as well as intensive appearances as soloist in chamber music concerts in most European countries, in the Americas, South East Asia and the Orient, are the hallmarks of her musical career as a solo artist.

Given her dedicated involvement in contemporary music, a number of works were written for and first performed by her. Yvonne Timoianu has led master classes and workshops in Austria, Belgium, India, Korea, Luxemburg, Spain and South Africa, to name a few.

She plays on a cello by Giovanni Grancino, of Milan-1721

Awards Recieved By Yvonne:

Award 1 Award 2


Alexander Preda



Pianist and collaborator, Alexander Preda, an Austrian of Romanian extraction, studied at the Music Academy of Bucharest and the Mozarteum of Salzburg.

He is the winner of various national and international competitions, among others, the piano contest “ Week of the Rumanian Music” in 1974, the Dinu Lipatti Prize and the Geroge Enescu special bursary from the Academy of Bucharest. In 1976, Mr. Preda won Fourth Prize in the J.S. Bach International Piano Competition in Leipzig and within the same year, the Bronze Medal of the prestigious “Arthur Rubenstein Piano Master Competition”, in Jerusalem.

"A brilliant pianist, technically exceptionally agile and vivid..." - Die Rheinpfalz, Germany

"...a giant of musicality and technique...a domination of the piano as we seldom could admire..."
- Diari de Tarragona, Spain