Graduated from the Transylvanian Faculty of Music, University of Brașov in 2003. He studied with professors Daniel Theodoru and Iulian Rusu. He is currently principal clarinet at the Sibiu State Philharmonic. Winner of several national and international awards, including 1st Prize at the “S. Mercadante” International Clarinet Competition in Noci (Bari – Italy) and the Grand Prix at the “Marțian Negrea” National Interpretation Competition in Ploiești (Romania). He has performed as a soloist at several festivals such as: George Enescu Festival, Bucharest; Schwetzinger Festspiele, Germany; Romanian-American Festival, Sibiu; Tam-Tam, Brașov; Lucian Blaga and the Lyric Art Festival, Sibiu, under the direction of distinguished conductors such as Petre Sbârcea, Ilarion Ionescu Galați, Valentin Uryupin, Scott Speck and Gabor Horvath. As a chamber musician, he performs regularly both in Romania and abroad: Weimer, Leipzig, Bari, Aalborg and Lisbon. His collaborations with acclaimed Romanian artists include Horia Mihail – piano; Yakov Kasman – piano; Teodora Gheorghiu – soprano and Daniel Szasz – violin. Dancu is also dedicated to jazz and contemporary music and is the founder and director of the Street Music Festival in Sibiu, one of the “unconventional” concert platforms taking place in the Romanian cultural environment. He is a clarinet teacher at the ICon Arts Transylvania Summer Academy and is a “Leitner & Kraus” artist, ambassador of the renowned clarinet factory in Neustadt, Germany.