The 2017–18 season saw Ioniță debut with The Hallé and San Diego Symphony[5] (both with Cristian Macelaru), BBC Philharmonic (with Yan Pascal Tortelier), Royal Scottish National Orchestra[6] (with Karl-Heinz Steffens), Rochester Philharmonic, and Hamburger Symphoniker.
[7] He returned to the MDR Sinfonieorchester in Leipzig and toured Europe with the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic.
In recitals Ioniță has performed at Carnegie Hall, on tour in Japan, and at the Kissinger Sommer, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and Schleswig-Holstein festivals.
Other appearances include an artistic residence at the 2018 Alpenarte Festival[8] in Austria, a tour with the BBC Philharmonic[9] (the UK and Romania), concerts in Denmark (Yuri Temirkanov and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra[10]), Russia (with the Russian National Orchestra and Mikhail Pletnev), and the United States (a tour with Cristian Măcelaru and the Romanian Youth Orchestra[11]).
Ioniță is a scholarship recipient of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and performs on a violoncello made by Giovanni Battista Rogeri from Brescia in 1671, on loan from the foundation.