From soup bowls to car brakes, Cork musician Alex Petcu is constantly searching for new sounds in the instruments he strikes, writes Ellie O'Byrne The wait for CAO offers is not a worry for a ...

His mother, Romanian violinist Ruxandra Colan, came to Ireland in 1978 to play with the RTÉ String Quartet, and was followed by his father, Adrian Petcu. Both his parents have taught violin in ...