Ioana is an accomplished soloist and chamber musician with a widely varied performance schedule programming music from the baroque era to the present day. Although Ioana prefers not to specialise in any one field, she particularly enjoys the challenges of new and unusual projects in addition to the existing contemporary repertoire and is dedicated to raising public awareness of living composers and their work.
Performing contemporary music, Ioana has featured at such festivals as the West Cork Chamber Music, Crash Ensemble's 'Up North', Sligo New Music, Masters of Tradition, Clandeboye, and Cheltenham Festivals and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Lyric FM and RTE national television. She has premiered works in Canada, Spain, the UK and Ireland and has worked closely with composers such as Arvo Part, Peteris Vasks, Edgar Meyer, Ian Wilson and Franghiz Ali-Zadeh on interpretations of their work.
Past projects have included recording 'Elastic Harmonic' by Donnacha Dennehy with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland for broadcast on Irish national television (commission and world premiere), giving the world premiere of 'Renaissance Man' featuring the composer, Ronan Guilfoyle, his brother Conor, renowned jazz guitarist John Abercrombie and her former ensemble the Callino Quartet, collaborating with internationally renowned traditional duo Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill for the world premiere of 'Music for the Departed' by David Flynn - specially commissioned for the 2006 Masters of Tradition Festival - and recording a selection of Ian Wilson's string quartets on the Riverrun label with the Callino Quartet, of which quartet no. 6, 'In Fretta In Vento', is a commission made on behalf of the group.
Most recently, Ioana has been invited to join a project developed by publishing house Universal Edition which aims to bring contemporary composers and young musicians together through accessible new works.
Educated in France, the UK and Ireland, Ioana holds the prestigious Medaille d'Or a l'Unanimite, a first-class Honours BMus Performance Degree and a first-class MA in Performance from each country respectively.
Ioana plays on an Italian violin, built by Gofreddo Cappa in 1695.