Biography
Vlad Eniu is a conductor and a graduate of the conducting department of the “Gheorghe Dima” National Academy of Music in Cluj-Napoca, where he studied with Maestro Petre Sbârcea and graduated top of his class. He went on to complete a master’s degree at the “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatory in Milan, and in 2021 he earned his PhD in Music, Summa cum laude, with the thesis “Conducting Perspectives on the Lyric-Dramatic Repertoire of the 20th Century”.
During his studies, he spent a year at the “Santa Cecilia” Conservatory in Rome and took part in exchanges at the major conservatories of Berlin, Vienna and Stuttgart. He learned from conductors such as Daniele Gatti, Ryusuke Numajiri, Vittorio Parisi, Luis Rafael Salomon, Ekkehard Klemm, Enrique García Asensio, Konrad von Abel and Jan Stulen, and in masterclasses he conducted orchestras including the “Giuseppe Verdi” Symphony Orchestra and I Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan, the Orpheus Foundation in London and the Kammerphilharmonie Graz.
Alongside music, Vlad Eniu is a resident physician in Medical Oncology at the “Prof. Dr. Ion Chiricuță” Oncology Institute in Cluj-Napoca and a PhD candidate in Medicine at the “Iuliu Hațieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy (see the Medicine page).
Since 2010, he has conducted over 170 concerts and performances, most of them with the “Victor Papilian” Doctors’ Orchestra and Choir of Cluj-Napoca. The ensembles he has worked with include the Romanian National Opera in Cluj-Napoca (La Traviata, The Merry Widow), the “Mihail Jora” Philharmonic in Bacău, the orchestras of the “Gheorghe Dima” Academy of Music, the National Youth Orchestra of Moldova (Chișinău – Oradea – Kassel tour, 2015) and independent orchestras such as Camerata Regală, ALTOrchestra, Opera Group Project and Opera Vox. In December 2025, he conducted the Romanian Doctors’ Orchestra at the Romanian Athenaeum in the concert Armoniile Speranței (“Harmonies of Hope”).
In 2011, he founded the Claudiopolis Orchestra and Choir, which made their debut in 2012 at the Medicine, Art and Culture Galas and with which he still works today. In 2014, he conducted the Romanian premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, under official licence from The Really Useful Group, and in 2018 a symphonic rock concert with the band Grimus and ALTOrchestra.
Many of his projects have taken place in unusual settings. Together with the Scena Urbană Association, he has organised and conducted, since 2015, the annual Luminație concerts (1 November) in the Central Cemetery of Cluj-Napoca. Dedicated to sacred music, and especially to the Requiems of Mozart, Cherubini and Michael Haydn, they are his signature project and have become one of the city’s traditions. Also with Scena Urbană, he staged Carmen on Cetățuia Hill (2015), My Fair Lady at the Cluj railway station (2014) and in Iris Square (2022), the operetta Countess Maritza (Cluj Summer Nights, 2017), the Haide U pe Scena Urbană concerts (from 2017 to the U100 Centenary) and, for children, Alice in the Snowlands (on the ice rink in Unirii Square) and Alice in the Land of Toys (in the courtyard of the Cluj Art Museum).
Vlad Eniu is also passionate about teaching. In 2014, he co-founded the educational ensemble Learn & Play, with which he held around 30 workshops for children in kindergartens and schools in Cluj.
Today, he leads the “Victor Papilian” Doctors’ Orchestra and Choir of Cluj-Napoca, the first doctors’ ensemble in Romania, founded in 1941, which ceased its activity in 2008. It was Vlad Eniu who brought the old Doctors’ Orchestra back to life, in successive stages, through the MedStrings Orchestra and the UMF Choir, ensembles of physicians, residents and medical students that he has conducted since the beginning of his medical studies. With these ensembles, he has given over 100 concerts: in hospitals, at medical congresses, at charity events, at Cluj Days, and in halls such as the Hèritage Hall of the Academy of Music and the Auditorium Maximum, where, in 2025, for the Swiss National Day, he performed alongside the Landwehr of Fribourg, the canton’s official wind orchestra, with a tradition dating back to 1804.
The full list of concerts is available on the Concerts page. The full CV is available upon request via the Contact page.