Valentin Radutiu, born in Munich in 1986, received his first cello lessons from his father at the age of six. While still attending school, he studied at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg under Clemens Hagen from 2001 to 2005. After high school he became a student of Heinrich Schiff in Vienna. Since 2007 he has been a member of David Geringas’cello studio at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin.

Valentin Radutiu is the current winner of the competition "Sound and Explanation -Conveying Works in Music and Word" of the Cultural Committee of German Business. The Music Prize of German Business is one of the most important awards for young musicians in Germany and brings with it a number of concert performances, the production of a debut CD, and the possibility to premiere a commissioned work by Peter Ruzicka.

Valentin Radutiu has won several prizes in national and international competitions, such as the Dotzauer competition in Dresden, and has repeatedly achieved top score among candidates in the “Jugend musiziert" competition – for instance in the category "piano and stringed instrument" in 2000 and in "cello solo" in 2001. He has twice been awarded the Raiffeisen Klassik Prize by the Mozarteum Salzburg, and in 2004 he won the special award of "exceptionally talented string player".

In 2008 he won first prize in the International Karl Davidov Competition in Riga in addition to the special prize for the best interpretation of a work by Johann Sebastian Bach. Highlights for him were the subsequent prize-winner's concerts in which he performed Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto under the baton of his teacher, David Geringas.

Valentin Radutiu has given concerts with the Munich Chamber Philharmonic, the Symphony Orchestra of the MDR, the Bayer Philharmonic, the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, the Young Munich Philharmonic and the World Youth Symphony Orchestra, and has performed in Munich‘s Prinzregententheater, in the Great Guild Hall in Riga, at the Jetzendorfer Schlosskonzerte and the Salzburger Schlosskonzerte, among others. He has been a guest at numerous festivals like Klangspuren Tirol, the French chamber music festival Juventus and the European Youth Music Festival in Passau. Furthermore, he has given chamber music concerts with the Hagen Quartet, Ib Hausmann, Alexander Madzhar, Igor Ozim, Antje Weithaas and others.

The following season includes concerts in the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Philharmonie Munich and the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, as well as invitations the festivals "Heidelberg Spring" and the "Lüneberger Bachwoche".

Valentin Radutiu plays a cello made by Francesco Rugieri (Cremona 1685).