Mariana Abacioaie was born in Bucharest (Romania) in 1958. She began playing the violin at the age of six and finished her studies at the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory of Music in Bucharest with the highest qualification, in the class of the prestigious professor Modest Iftinchi. Her concert career began at the age of ten, performing with various orchestras in her country and winning several national prizes. Her advanced studies took place at the Hochschule für Musik in Weimar, Germany.