Andrei Ioniță

Andrei Ionuț Ioniță (born January 1994 in Bucharest) is a Romanian cellist. He won first prize in the cello division of the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition.
Ioniță studied at the Berlin University of the Arts under Jens Peter Maintz. In 2003, he won the David Popper International Cello Competition, and in 2013 won first prize in the Aram Khatchaturian International Competition. A year later, he took second place at the 63rd ARD International Competition and the Emanuel Feuermann Competition. He has performed at the Petit Palais in Paris, Berlin Konzerthaus and Deutsche Oper, among other locales.
Ionita plays a 1671 cello by Giovanni Battista Rogeri loaned to him from the German Foundation for Musical Life.