Irinia Muresanu is Professor of Violin in the School of Music at the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland. She is a laureate and winner of top prizes in several prestigious international violin competitions including the Montreal International, Queen Elisabeth, UNISA International String, Washington International, and the Schadt String Competition. Muresanu’s awards also include the Presser Award, the Arthur Foote Award from the Harvard Musical Association, the Creative and Performing Arts Award from the University of Maryland, a New Music USA Grant, a Pro Musicis International Award. Muresanu has recently been awarded the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar 2024 award and the Independent Scholarship, Research and Creativity Award from the University of Maryland, for her project “Infinite Strings,” a platform designed to promote violin music by Romanian composers. She is also the recipient of a three-year National Science Foundation grant and a Grand Challenges grant from the University of Maryland for the “Music Education for All through AI and Digital Humanities” research she is conducting at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, where she is an Affiliate Faculty member. A strong proponent of music education, she has taught at Boston Conservatory and in the Harvard and MIT Music Departments. Born in Romania, she holds a prestigious Artist Diploma degree and a Doctor in Musical Arts degree from the New England Conservatory.