Virgil Mihaiu

He joined the editorial staff of Steaua, the cultural monthly of the Writers’ Union, in 1990.

In 2006, he founded and became the first director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Lisbon, continuing in the post until 2012. He also served as minister-counselor at the Romanian embassy in Portugal

Since 2004, he has served as a member of the European Jazz Prize Jury (the Hans Koller Prize) and a member of the editorial council of the "Tribuna" cultural magazine.

In 2002 he received a doctorate for his monograph on F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Between 2000 and 2005 he participated at the F. Scott Fitzgerald World Conferences. He has also given a series of lectures, recitals and documentation tours through universities and cultural institutions of the United States (New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC, San Francisco, Stanford, Boston, Chicago, New Jersey, and Berkeley).

Since 1999, he has been a part of the Down Beat Jazz Critics Poll and the international editorial college of Down Beat, a jazz magazine edited in Chicago.

Mihaiu became an assistant professor at the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy in Cluj in 1992. Five years later, he became a professor of Jazz Aesthetics of the jazz department at Gheorghe Dima.

Between 1983 and 1993, he was part of the editorial staff of Jazz Forum, the International Jazz Federation's magazine in Warsaw.

Virgil Mihaiu graduated from the Faculty of Letters at Babeș-Bolyai University in 1974, after studying English and German, as well as Spanish and Portuguese.

Between 1971 and 1983, he was on the editorial staff of Echinox, a cultural magazine. In 1981, he became a member of the Writers' Union of Romania.

Virgil Mihaiu (born June 28, 1951 in Cluj, Romania) is a Romanian writer, jazz critic, diplomat, jazz aesthetics professor, polyglot, and performer. He was co-founder and the first director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Lisbon, and served as minister-counselor at the Romanian embassy in Portugal.