Associate Professor of Violin (1987)
Bucharest Conservatory (student of George Manoliu); Guildhall School of Music (student of Yfrah Neaman, lessons and master classes with Yehudi Menuhin, Henryk Szeryng, Nathan Milstein, Norbert Brainin, and Sandor Végh); Indiana University (student of Josef Gingold, chamber music coaching with Menahem Pressler); additional studies with Dorothy De Lay.

One of the world's leading performers of George Enescu's music, Romanian-born Sherban Lupu began playing the violin at age seven. While a student at the Bucharest Conservatory, Lupu concertized in Eastern Europe and performed on Romanian radio and television. Mr. Lupu left Romania to study in London at the Guildhall School of Music, and in 1976, Lupu came to the United States.

He has won prizes in numerous competitions such as: Vienna International, Romanian National String Quartet, Jacques Thibaud in Paris, Carl Flesch in London, Royal Society of Arts, and the Park Lane Group Contest. Professor Lupu has been a member of the English Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Mainz Chamber Orchestra, associate concertmaster of the San Francisco Opera, founder and artistic advisor of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, and artistic director of the Gubbio Festival in Italy.

Appearing frequently as soloist in Europe and the United States, Lupu has also performed the complete cycle of Beethoven Sonatas with Menahem Pressler. A versatile chamber musician he is also a member of the George Enescu Chamber Players, Chicago Ensemble, and the founder of Enescu Ensemble at the University of Illinois. He has worked with leading Romanian composers such as Theodor Grigoriu, Gheorghe Costinescu, Dinu Ghezzo, and Violeta Dinescu who have dedicated works to him. Solo appearances include The Kennedy Center, Gstaad Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elisabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall, St. John's Smith Square, and Carnegie Hall, where in June 1998, Mr. Lupu performed Enescu's Third Violin Sonata in a concert he organized in honor of the President of Romania. Lupu has also performed the Brahms and Tchaikovsky violin concertos in live broadcasts with the BBC Orchestra.

Recently, Mr. Lupu has performed with the Northern Israeli Symphony Orchestra in Haifa, and has toured Hungary and Sweden. He has collaborated with conductors such as Mendi Rodan, Sir Charles Grove, Harry Blech, Cristian Mandeal, Barry Wadsworth, Owain Arwell Hughes among others, and recorded works by Ysaÿe, Bartók, Enescu, Wieniawski, Stravinsky, and Ginastera for the ASV, Arabesque, and Continuum labels and for the BBC.

In collaboration with the composer Cornel Taranu, Mr. Lupu has finished and reconstructed the Caprice Roumain for violin and orchestra by George Enescu. That work, performed by Mr. Lupu in a special concert at the World Exhibition 2000 in Hannover, Germany, is included in the recent CD recording of the complete music for violin by George Enescu, which he has made in collaboration with Valentin Gheorghe and the Bucharest Filarmónica Orchestra under the direction of Cristian Mandeal for the Electrecord label.

Mr. Lupu is a frequent member of international juries, has given numerous masterclasses and taught violin courses in England, Holland, Germany, Poland, Romania, and the Czech Republic, etc. In January 2001, Lupu received a lifetime cultural award from the Romanian Cultural Foundation for his efforts to promote Romanian culture and music internationally, as well as the "Flacara" Prize for music.