# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mariana-sirbu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:37:35.169Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mariana-sirbu"
name: "Mariana Sîrbu"
slug: "mariana-sirbu"
description: "Mariana Sîrbu, also credited as Sârbu, was a Romanian classical violinist and academic teacher, who made an international career performing and recording. She was focused on chamber music, founding the Academica String Quartet in 1968, joining the Trio di Milano in 1985, and founding the Quartetto Stradivari in 1994. She was concertmaster of I Musici from 1993 to 2003. She became professor of violin at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig in Leipzig in 2002, gave international master classes and was juror for competitions of violin and chamber music."
tagline: "Romanian musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mariana_S%C3%AErbu_in_1970.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1940"
deathDate: "2023-08-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.936681333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/4HXoI5C2s3rGKC8YiVwNhx"
    handle:    "4HXoI5C2s3rGKC8YiVwNhx"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/4024066"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_S%C3%AErbu"
    title: "Mariana Sîrbu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_S%C3%AErbu"
    title: "Mariana Sîrbu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_S%C3%AErbu"
    title: "Mariana Sîrbu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_S%C3%AErbu"
    title: "Mariana Sîrbu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8B%D1%80%D0%B1%D1%83%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Сырбу, Марьяна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e2aa7c41-2c51-4d6c-bd78-5b419ef71407"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1396403"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump