Alex Petcu’s debut recording reveals a musician remarkably expressive in his performances of tuned percussion in works like the Courante from Bach’s Cello Suite no.6 in D major and his own arrangement of Debussy’s Arabesque no.1. At the same he shows a mastery of the technical demands of compositions such as Steve Reich’s Nagoya Marimbas or the rhythmically mind-blowing Paddy by Donnacha Dennehy. An Irish musician of Romanian origin, Alex is quickly establishing himself both nationally and internationally as a percussionist of the finest calibre. Winner of the first prize at the Irish Freemasons Young Musician of the Year and as a semi-finalist at the Tromp International Percussion Competition, he was the National Concert Hall Rising Star for 2015, culminating in a recital that was described by The Irish Times as "...memorable no less for the breadth of technique than for the comparable range of emotion, expression and mood."