ABOUT
Marius Preda
Cimbalom Player / Multi-Instrumentalist / Composer / Arranger / Improviser
Marius Preda is considered to be one of the most original, prolific and influential musicians in recent music history.
Preda has shared the stage with many renowned artists in the world of music:
Greats like: Arturo Sandoval, Gheorghe Zamfir, Vladimir Cosma and Didier Lockwood
Marius Preda was born in Bucharest (1977) into a family of musicians.
At the age of four, Marius received a special gift from his grandmother: a big, wooden trapezoidal box on 4 legs with metal strings stretched across its top: a Cimbalom.
Ever since, Preda fell in love with the instrument and dedicated all his time practicing and playing the exotic instrument. Because of his unique and charismatic playing, Preda has become the first cimbalom player in the history who has performed in some of the most prestigious concert halls, festivals and jazz clubs in the world.
TO NAME A FEW
- Palais Des Congres – Paris
- Grand Rex – Paris
- Arena – Genève
- Blue Note – New York
- Ronnie Scott’s – London
- Blue Note – Milan
- Proms Festival – Prague
- Théâtre du Châtelet – Paris
In 1993, at the age of 16, Preda was invited for a concert tour in the Netherlands, starring as a special guest in the ensemble of the great panflute-player Nicolae Pirvu.
Shortly after, Preda decided to study jazz and vibraphone at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Preda graduated cum-laude and was given the nick-name “The Tiger of the Conservatory” a hommage to his virtuosic and energetic musical capabilities.
With all the skills that Preda accumulated over the years, Preda started to invent a new way of playing the cimbalom, a style only known and unique to him and presenting the cimbalom at the highest level possible.
Preda’s only mission - MISSION CIMBALOM - is to make the cimbalom a world wide known phenomenon.
In the past two decades, Preda has performed and contributed to:
Arturo Sandoval, Mike Stern, Vladimir Cosma, Rosenberg Trio, Didier Lockwood, Philip Catherine, Gheorghe Zamfir (Andreas Oberg “Six Strings Evolution” by Resonance Records - feat: Marius Preda, Decebal Badila, Antal Steixner, John Patitucci, Lewis Nash and Dave Kikoski) an Archibald Dance (no.4 on the album), Dennis Chambers, Tom Kennedy, Teymur Phell, Anne Ducros, Amikam Kimelman, Fifi Chayeb, Claude Salmieri, Rony Holan, Owen Hart Jr. Jens Loh, Leonid Ptashka, Adrian Cicero, Claus Reichstaller, Arie Volinez, Peter Weniger, Joris Teepe, Wolfert Bredorede, Adi Yeshaya, Robin Koerts, Taco Gorter, Paradox Jazz Orchestra, etc.
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EVENTS
STAY TUNED FOR UPCOMING EVENTS!
Mission Cimbalom Quartet -The Preda’s
Sunday - 01/22/2023 - Hour - 7:00 p.m
HOTEL ASAM - Straubing, Germany
The Preda’s
Sunday - 15/04/2023 - Hour - 7:00 p.m
Theater des Friedens - Doberaner Str. 5 Rostock
The Preda’s @ ZOA Festival
Sunday - 20/05/2023 - Hour - 8:45 p.m
Kulturverein OIS-Musik Mittlerer Markt 26 3361 Aschbach-Markt
Special guest with the Austrian-Hungarian Haydn Phil
for 2 concerts in Innsbruck at the legendary Cselley Mühle near Eisenstadt
25 - 26. 7. 2023
MISSION CIMBALOM QUARTET -
THE PREDA'S
Sunday – 01/22/2023 – Hour – 7:00 p.m
HOTEL ASAM – Straubing, Germany
Buy Tickets
THE PREDA'S
27th of March
Bozar – Brussels
Belgium
THE PREDA'S
Sunday – 15/04/2023 – Hour – 7:00 p.m
Theater des Friedens – Doberaner Str. 5 Rostock
Germany
THE PREDA'S
14th of May 2023
Concert, Live Recording & Documentary
Popradar
The Hague, The Netherlands
The Preda’s @ ZOA Festival
Sunday – 20/05/2023 – Hour – 8:45 p.m
Kulturverein OIS-Musik Mittlerer Markt 26 3361 Aschbach-Markt
Austria
MARIUS PREDA
8th of June 2023
Arena Francisc Neuman
Arad, Romania
Solist with Vladimir Cosma
16, 17 & 18th of June 2023
Grand Rex
Paris, France
THE PREDA'S
22nd of July 2023
Jazz am Hof
Germany, Ausham 7, 94081 Fürstenzell
Special guest with the Austrian-Hungarian Haydn Phil
for 2 concerts in Innsbruck at the legendary Cselley Mühle near Eisenstadt
25 – 26. 7. 2023
Austria
THE PREDA'S
29th of July 2023
Neustadt an der Aisch
Germany
THE PREDA'S
20th of October
Novi Sad
Serbia
THE STORY OF
MISSION CIMBALOM
The first concert-cimbalom was created in 1874 by the Czech- Hungarian- Jewish luthier Joszef Schunda, who lived from 1845 -1923.
The Cimbalom is the richest source of musical history and traditions that incorporates all the aspects of the early ancient instruments like the harp, the lyre and the medieval lute.
It includes every historical period of our times with all of the artistic and emotional changes, representing a real musical and creational treasure.
My mission is to reveal and share the importance of the cimbalom and to introduce the beauty and richness of its sounds to the entire world. Stay tuned!