Music-in-Medicine: Fullana-Radutiu-Rui Trio

Name: Music-in-Medicine: Fullana-Radutiu-Rui Trio
Start: 2025-11-05T12:00:00-06:00
Location: MD Anderson Mays Clinic

Schedule

Wed, 05 Nov, 2025 at 12:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

MD Anderson Mays Clinic | Houston, TX

https://www.mdanderson.org/patients-family/diagnosis-treatment/patient-support/music-in-medicine-initiative.html
Rhapsodic Virtuosity—Mendelssohn, Paganini, and Ravel
Francisco Fullana, Violin | Valentin Radutiu, Cello | Mei Rui, Piano
Spanish-born violinist Francisco Fullana, winner of the 2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant, has been hailed as an "amazing talent" (Gustavo Dudamel) and "frighteningly awesome" (Buffalo News). His solo violin album Bach’s Long Shadow, was named BBC Music Magazine’s Instrumental Choice of the Month. Its five star review stated: ‘Fullana manages to combine Itzhak Perlman's warmth with the aristocratic poise of Henryk Szeryng'. He has collaborated with conducting greats like Sir Colin Davis, Hans Graf, and Gustavo Dudamel. Besides his career as a soloist, which includes recent debuts with the Philadelphia and St. Paul Chamber Orchestras and a residency with Apollo’s Fire, he is also an innovative educator, having created the Fortissimo Youth Initiative and co-founded San Antonio’s Classical Music Institute. He is an alum of CMS’s Bowers Program. A graduate of the Juilliard School and the University of Southern California, Fullana performs on the 1735 Mary Portman ex-Kreisler Guarneri del Gesù violin, on loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the Stradivari Society of Chicago. Francisco’s love for conductor-less leading and program curating has led to his new roles starting in the 24/25 season both as Artist-in-Residence of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia at Kimmel Center and Artistic Advisor and Curator at The Orchestra of San Antonio. Highlights of his upcoming concerto engagements include debuts with The Florida Orchestra, Indianapolis, Phoenix, Recife, and Łódź Symphonies, as well as returns with the Tucson and Balearic Islands Symphonies among others. Francisco Fullana performs on the 1735 "Mary Portman" ex-Kreisler Guarneri del Gesù violin, kindly on loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the Stradivari Society of Chicago.
Renowned cellist Valentin Radutiu is the newly appointed Professor of Cello at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. Radutiu has served as the principal cellist of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester (DSO) Berlin since 2019 and has extensive experience as a concerto soloist, having performed with renowned orchestras such as the Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, Jerusalem Symphony, National Romanian Symphony and Bucharest Radio Orchestra. Since 2021, Radutiu has been a professor of cello at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden, Germany. Additionally, Radutiu has served as a guest principal cellist with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Munich Radio Orchestra while also taking on the role of guest section cellist with the Berlin Philharmonic. Radutiu is an active recording artist with eight albums, including the Haydn cello concertos and Enescu complete works for cello and piano as well as lesser-known concertos of the classical period, expressing his curiosity for cello repertoire beyond the expected. Radutiu’s accolades include victories at national and international competitions such as the International Karl Davidov Competition in Riga, Latvia, and the Music Prize of German Business, one of Germany’s most prestigious awards for emerging musicians. In 2011, he won second prize at the International Enescu Competition in Bucharest, Romania. Radudiu studied at prominent European institutions, including the Mozarteum University Salzburg, the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the School of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin. He said his teachers — Clemens Hagen, Heinrich Schiff and David Geringas — have shaped not only his musical abilities but also his philosophy on education. Radutiu plays on a cello by Francesco Ruggieri (Cremona, 1686).
Pianist Mei Rui, DMA, is Director of Music-in-Medicine and Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at MD Anderson. She is the principal investigator of multiple clinical trials quantitatively assessing the neurophysiological impact of music-based intervention on brain healthy and wellness in cancer patients, physicians, caregivers, and musicians. A Yale-trained molecular biochemist and an internationally award-winning concert pianist, she was a Medalist at the World Piano Competition in 2015, Dr. Rui was praised by the Boston Globe as a “riveting virtuoso”, and by Boston Musical Intelligencer as a concert artist with “deeply felt and intense musicality.” New York Classical Review writes of her Grammy-nominated recording (Albany Records): “Rui was amazing at what seemed to be impossible; an excellent pianist with extreme virtuosity.” Her recent performances include all the Rachmaninoff Concerti with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Yale Philharmonic, World Doctors Orchestra, and TMC Orchestra.