Artist description STUDIES: Graduate from the Bucharest Music Academy – the Musicology class (1994) and the Composition class (1996). Master of Arts in Musicology (1995) and Composition (1997). She studied with Octavian Nemescu (composition), Octavian Lazar Cosma (musicology), Adrian Iorgulescu (musical analysis), Nicolae Beloiu (orchestration), Adrian Ratiu (harmony). ACTIVITIES: Editor of the Romanian Specialized review MUZICA Researcher of the Art-History Institute “G.Oprescu” in Bucharest Founder and member of the PRO CONTEMPORANIA music ensemble (set up in 1990). Special performances as : pianist, percussionist, khaen-player. She feels very attracted to Vanguard Experiments and Improvisation. Her works devoted to the surrealistic sonorous trend have been performed in many concerts, in Romania, Sweden, Moldavia, Germany, Albania, Belgium, France, Italy, Neetherlands, Switzerland, Israel, Poland. She was invited by the Japan Federation of Composers in Tokio and she was introduced to its members. Contacts with the Japanese composers. She is very attracted to the Eastern feeling of time and space and to the ancestral (traditional) instruments.

Music Style Chamber music, Symphonic, Theatre Music

Musical Influences Octavian Nemescu

Similar Artists Octavian Nemescu, Xenakis

Artist History AWARDS: First Prize at the National Composition Contest organized by the Romanian Radio Broadcasting (1998) with the orchestral work Mondes Impossibles. The same work was recommended for Radio Broadcast all over the world (Paris - Tribune Internationale des Compositeurs 1999) Prize of The Romanian Composers’Union (1998) Prize of the Romanian Composers’Union (1999) Prize of the Romanian Academy of Arts and Science (1999) Second prize at the „Thomas Bloch Composition contest for glassharmonica”, Paris - 2000” She won a scholarship from PEJA and a creation prize (2000) with residency in Belgium (Mons) for her symphonic work “Chimeres” – perspective magrittienne pour violoncelle, orchestre a cordes et percussion PUBLISHING ACTIVITIES: � The book Developments, Ways and Trends in Romanian Music during the second half of the 20th Century � Musicology studies for the leading Romanian specialized review „MUZICA” : � From Sound to Visual – The Geometrical Spirit in Anton Webern’s work � Considerations on the Concept of Metamusic � Musical Composition as a Biosystem � Conceptual Music � Repetitive Music and Non-Evolutive Music � A possible theory on the Archetypal Creation � The Anomaly’s Role in the Musical Creation PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: Member of the Romanian Composers Union, Member of SACEM

Group Members PRO CONTEMPORANIA Ensemble IRINEL ANGHEL - Piano, Khaen, Gu Zheng, Accordion, Percussion. LADISLAU CSENDES - violin, viola. ANDREI KIVU - cello, tuba, harmonic singing, Tromba Lontana, percussion. MARIAN MOVILEANU - viola. VIRGIL OPRINA - bass guitar. FLORIN PANE - trombone. ELMIRA SEBAT - mezzosoprano. ION BOGDAN STEFANESCU - flutes. OANA SPANU - violin. EMIL VISENESCU - clarinet, saxophones.

Instruments piano

Albums Cellosonata

Press Reviews PRO CONTEMPORANIA Ensemble has recently awarded the prize "Best Romanian Ensemble Promoting the New Music", by "Actualitatea Muzicala" (the main specialized review in Romania).

Location Bucharest, ro - Romania

Copyright notice. All material on MP3.com is protected by copyright law and by international treaties. You may download this material and make reasonable number of copies of this material only for your own personal use. You may not otherwise reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, or create derivative works of this material, unless authorized by the appropriate copyright owner(s).