Ilie Cozmațchi, born in Romania, studied at the Iași Music Conservatory (Romania), at the Karlsruhe University of Music with Prof. Wolfgang Güttler and at the Nuremberg University of Music with Prof. Dorin Marc. He was a trainee with the Stuttgart Philharmonic and the Stuttgart State Opera and had engagements with the Munich Philharmonic and the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. He has been a member of the Dresden Philharmonic since 2008.