How is Florin Totan connected to this?
Maestro Florin Totan was born in 1955 in Bucharest to a family of musicians. He studied orchestral conducting with Maestro Bugeanu at the Music Academy in Bucharest and had further conducting studies under Sergiu Celibidache in Munich and Mainz (1982-1990), F. Ferrara in Siena (1993), and R. Schumacher Berlin and Paris (1990, 1991). Totan has won international conducting competitions in Mürzzuschlang, Austria, and Berlin.
Totan has done concert tours in France, Italy, England, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Israel, and Austria. He has led orchestras such as the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, AIMS Symphony Orchestra in Dallas, and the Ensemble Modern of Graz. Totan has also participated in international festivals in Paris - Jouvissy (1985) , Avignon (1990, 1992, 1994), Bergamo (1997), and "Enescu" (1998). He has recorded with the Radio Bucharest Orchestra on the works of: Mozart, Haydn, Bizet, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, and Enescu. He has taught conducting master classes in: Bucharest, Spain, Brazil, and in the United States.
Totan is currently the Principal Conductor of the "ION DUMITRESCU" Phiharmonic in Ramnicu Valcea, Romania. He is also the founder/director of the Sinfonia Bucharest, a chamber orchestra in Bucharest, Romania.
Totan has been traveling worldwide since Celibidache's death, teaching the "Celibidache Method". This conducting method is one of clarity and simplicity, patterned after the conducting of his teacher, Sergiu Celibidache.