Dan Prelipcean, the cellist of the Voces String Quartet founded in Iași in 1973, studied at the George Enescu Conservatory in Iași, and after graduating he joined the Moldova Philharmonic Orchestra and taught at the Conservatory in Iași.
He has studied with masters of the chamber music genre such as George Hamza, Wilhelm Georg Berger, Vilmos Tátrai (Budapest), Nikolaus Delius (Freiburg), Uzi Wiesel (Bayreuth), Friedrich von Hausegger (Hanover), Mieczysław Horszowski, Hans Leygraf, members of the British Amadeus Quartet, Boris Pergamencicov (Cologne).
In 2005, he defended his doctoral thesis titled Classical Creation for String Quartet. Stylistic Landmarks, at the George Enescu National University of Arts in Iași, research conducted under the coordination of Professor Mihail Cozmei.
He was laureate of several international competitions for string quartet, including those in Colmar, Bordeaux (France) and Hanover (Germany), and has made numerous recordings on disk, radio and TV, including the George Enescu Complete Chamber Works (1981) and the Beethoven Complete Works (live recordings in Würzburg, Germany). He has also published books and studies and lectured on instrumental performance technique and has coordinated and managed the national and international artistic activity of the Voces String Quartet from 1980 to the present.
Dan Prelipcean teaches at the George Enescu National University of Arts in Iași (instrumental performance and chamber music field) since 2005 and has been PhD scientific coordinator since 2007. Between 2011 and 2020 he was also director of the Doctoral School (Music field) at the George Enescu National University of Arts in Iași.
