Myriam Marbe: "Trommelbass" for violin, viola and cello

Myriam Marbe: Trommelbass

Corneliu Cezar, "AUM", electroacoustic music.
Corneliu Cezar became remarkable after 1960 (breaking out from the proletarian cult).He was a fore runner of post-modernism in Romanian context. He is now considered rather a visionary of music than a producer of acoustic masterpieces. In the ‘60 he sustained and prophesied a new musical direction rediscovering the natural resonance of the sound within a different historical context – the idea of spectral music was going to materialize itself in Romanian tradition. After 1980 the artistic phenomena has no longer interested him. He took more distance of the ideal of skill, originality and aesthetic refinement accomplishment. After 1970 Cezar fought for the cause of recovering “the state of rendition” in music (musical expressiveness) and the composing manner he called “the organ of styles” – polistylism.
Cezar imposed the theory of sonology (as means of applying music therapy). 
(Cristina Uruc)


Corneliu Cezar: AUM

Calin Ioachimescu: "Oratio II" (1981) for winds, percussion, tape and live electronic system
Omnia Ensemble, conductor Marin Soare

http://cimro.ro/2011/05/calin-ioachimescu/

Calin Ioachimescu was born in Bucharest in 1949. In 1975 he graduated from the University of Music Composition in Bucharest. He also participated in international summer courses at Darmstadt and benefiting from a grant of the French State, he attended a training for computer music composers at IRCAM.

For compositional work has been awarded numerous prizes by the Uniunea Compozitorilor si Muzicologilor din Romania and the prestigious “Kranichsteiner Musikpreis” International Music Institute in Darmstadt (1984).

Currently, Calin Ioachimescu leads the Electronic Music Studio of the Composers Union. His work covers all genres of music: from concerts like symphonic to electroacoustic music work. Calin Ioachimescu’s aesthetics is part of the orientation that explores the inner world of sound, a language based on laws vizĺnd acoustic and psychoacoustic, the aspiration to accede to a “new tune”.

Calin Ioachimescu: Oratio II

Dan Dediu: "Apfelwurmer" / "Apple Worms" for flute and two pianos
Ion Bogdan Stefanescu, flute
Valentina Sandu-Dediu, piano
Dan Dediu, piano

http://www.dandediu.ro/


Dediu, Dan (b. March 16, 1967, Braila). Romanian composer of mostly stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and piano works that have been performed throughout Europe and elsewhere.
Dediu graduated in composition at the Academy of Music in Bucharest in 1989, where he studied with Stefan Niculescu, Dan Constantinescu, Dan Buciu, and Octavian Nemescu. He later attended post-graduate courses with Francis Burt, Günter Kahowez and Wilhelm Zobl at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna in 1990-91, as well as the annual Cursus de Composition et Informatique Musicale at IRCAM in 1994. He earned his PhD at the National University of Music in Bucharest in 1995.
Among his many honors are First prizes in the National Composers Competition in Cluj-Napoca (1986, 1988), the Brass Chamber Music Competition in Budapest-Barcs (1990) and the Premier Concours pour Orchestre Françaises de Flűtes (2000, for Spaima).
He earned Second Prize in the Ludwigshafen am Rhein Competition (1991, for 3/2) and Third prizes in the Mozart 1991 (1991, for Motto-Studien) and Carl Maria von Weber (1991, for String Quartet No. 3) competitions.
Other honors include the George Enescu Prize in the George Enescu Competition in Bucharest (1991, for Symphony No. 1) and the Music Prize of the Romanian Academy (1991, for String Quartet No. 3). From the Romanian Composers Union, he earned the Prize for Chamber Music (1992, for Hörner-Stimmen aus einem unbekannten Requiem), the Prize for Symphonic Music (1995, for HYPERKARDIA), the prizes for opera (Post-Fiction) and musicology (with his wife, Valentina Sandu-Dediu) (1998), and the Prize for Choral Music (1999, for Stabat Mater).
Lastly, he earned the Prize for EXPO 2000 in Hannover from the Romanian Development Agency (2000), the Prize of the Galliard Ensemble International Composers Competition in London (2000), the Neuköllner Opernpreis in Berlin (2002), and the Prometheus-Opera Prima, a Romanian cultural award (2002).
He has earned scholarships from the Alfred-Töpfer-Stiftung (1990, Hamburg), the Alban-Berg-Stiftung (1991, Vienna), fellowships from New Europe College (1997-98, Bucharest), the Wissenschaftskolleg (1998, Berlin), the Zuger Kulturstiftung Landis und Gyr (2002, Berlin) and the one year residency of Villa Concordia Bamberg (2005-6). In 2000, his music was heard at the ISCM World Music Days in Luxembourg.
In addition to his work as a composer, he served as artistic director of the International Week of New Music Festival in Bucharest in 1999, 2001, 2007, 2008.
He was a guest lecturer at Queen´s University of Belfast in 1994. Since 1999, he has been an associate professor of composition at the National University of Music in Bucharest and since 2000, has led its composition department. In the present he is the rector of the National University of Music, Bucharest.
Éditions Lucian Badian (Ottawa), Editura Muzicala (Bucharest) and Peer Music publish his works.


Dan Dediu: Apfelwurmer

Doina Rotaru: "Japanese Garden" (2006) for flute and pre-recorded sounds
Mario Caroli, flute

http://www.freewebs.com/doinarotaru/

“I’ve used structural principles of symbolic values and functions –like circular or spiral shapes, sacred numbers and so on. The symbol becomes an idea of composition, and this idea generates the structures, the musical time , the syntax, the architecture and the expressions of the work. I've also used elements from ancient Romanian folklore, where almost every sound is enriched with ornaments, glissandi, micro-tones, overtones and , of course, heterophony. The expression of Romanian ancient folk music is very nostalgic, creating a melancholic atmosphere and the feeling of a painful beauty” (Doina Rotaru)

Born in 1951, Romanian composer Doina Rotaru has a B.A. and a M.A in composition at the National University of Music in  Bucharest. She studied here between 1970 and 1975  with - among others -  Tiberiu Olah.  Since 1996 she has been a professor of composition and, since 2008, the head of the composition department at the same University. In 1991 she obtained a scholarship in Holland (Amsterdam) where she studied with Theo Loevendie.

She has written so far over 100 works that cover almost every musical genre: from solo, chamber, choral to orchestral works, from works that mix instrumental with electronic music to theater music.

Her music has been performed in many concerts and festivals all over the world :  Europe, Far-East, Australia, Canada and South-America. - some of these being "author concerts". Some of Doina Rotaru's works have been commissioned by Radio France, Radio Graz, Suntory Hall Tokyo, French Ministry of Culture, Stockholm Saxophone Quartet,  ensembles and soloists from France, Germany, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Switzerland.

Doina Rotaru was awarded prizes by the Romanian Academy (Bucharest,1996) and the Romanian Composers' Association (UCRM, Bucharest, 1981, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2004 and 2007). For her 2nd Symphony,  she won in 1994  the first prize at the Gedok - Mannheim International Competition (Germany).

She was invited as a lecturer about her music in Germany (Darmstadt,  Summer Courses for New Music - 1992, 1994), Holland (Amsterdam, Gaudeamus International Composers’  Workshop - 1990,1992 ), England ( Huddersfield University - 1995, Brighton - 1995), Japan (Tokyo Suntory Hall - 1998, 2001) and  Iceland (Skalholt, 2006).

Doina Rotaru has been invited to take part in international  juries for composition competition in France  (Paris, 2002, 2006), Slovenia (Ljublijana, 2004) and Romania (Bucharest, 2006).

Since 1998 she also has a PhD in Musicology at N.U.M.B., with the work "Contemporary composers and archaic traditions". Her teaching career has led to the writing of two school books, in collaboration with fellow professor Liviu Comes:  "Counterpoint School Book for Music Highschools"  (Ed. Didactica, 1977) and  "Vocal and Instrumental Counterpoint Treatise " (Ed. Muzicala, 1987).

She has made so far over 50 radio and television transmissions.

In 1998 she was the Artistic Director of the "Contemporary Music Week" festival in Bucharest.

Her works are published by the Musical Publishing House (Editura Muzicala) in Bucharest , Leduc and H.Lemoine, Paris

Doina Rotaru: Japanese Garden

Aurel Stroe: Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, part 1
Aurelian Octav-Popa, clarinet

http://www.aurel-stroe.de/
http://cimro.ro/2011/05/aurel-stroe/

Aurel Stroe (born May 5, 1932 in Bucharest – d. October 3, 2008 in Mannheim ) – was a composer, musicologist, teacher and Romanian. He has written contemporary classical music (symphonic, vocal-symphonic, chamber, choral), electronic music and music scene.

Aurel Stroe was awarded the Cultural Merit Order Fourth Class (1969). He was awarded the Romanian Academy in 1974. He  was awarded the title Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres of France (1991). He received the 1998 Grand Prix of Composers and Musicologists Union in Romania and in 2002 became the winner of the Herder Prize (Vienna).

He was assistant (1962-68), lecturer (1968-1973), lecturer (1973-1985) and professor (since 1993) National University of Music Bucharest and taught orchestration and composition. He taught as associate professor at the University of Illinois (USA) between 1985-1986. He taught at the Normal School of the University of Strasbourg (1972) and summer courses held in Piatra Neamt (1982), Darmstadt (Germany) in 1986, 1988, 1990, 1994 and Hawaii in 1992.  He has lectured, and published essays in scientific papers in Romania and abroad (France, Austria, Germany), radio and television.

He published studies, essays, articles, interviews: Music, Twentieth Century, Contemporary, Literary Romania, Tribune (Cluj), Music News, etc…

Aurel Stroe: Clarinet Concerto part 1

Stefan Niculescu: "Psalmus" for 6 voices
The King Singers, cond. Richard Steinitz

http://www.composers21.com/compdocs/niculess.htm
http://cimro.ro/2011/05/stefan-niculescu/

Ştefan Niculescu (July 31, 1927 – January 22, 2008) was born in Moreni, Dâmbovita. He was credited with introducing his own brand of heterophony, a technique based on superimposing melodic material onto variations of itself in order to create textures that are propelled by thematic energy as well as by the more common textural factors of density and levels of activity. This creative approach bears similarities with György Ligeti's micropolyphony, but important aesthetic and stylistic differences set them apart.
Niculescu's work as a teacher made him a mentor to a whole generation of younger Romanian composers, among them Dan Dediu.
Niculescu's work Ison II for wind and percussion permutates simultaneous segments of a diatonic melody producing a reverberating complexity of sound which is held together by a strong sense of modal clarity. Opus Dacicum for orchestra applies similar textural explorations but with a stronger sense of harmonic movement, often with a Wagnerian lushness that lends this music a sensuous appeal a world apart from Ligeti's cluster-oriented sonorities.
Among his honors are many awards from the Romanian Academy and the The Society of Romanian Composers. He also received awards from the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1972), the International Record Critics Award (1985), and the Herder Prize in Vienna (1994).
In the 1970s he contributed to the popularization of modern music by organizing public listenings in Bucharest together with Şerban Stănciulescu.


Stefan Niculescu: Psalmus

Tiberiu Olah: "Space and Rhythm" (1965) for 3 percussion groups

http://www.tiberiuolah.ro

Romanian composer Tiberiu Olah studied at the conservatories of Cluj (1946-9) and Moscow (1949-54), then began teaching at the Bucharest Conservatory. As a composer for films he has achieved a leading position in Romania. He has also written vocal, orchestral and chamber music.



Tiberiu Olah: Space and Rhythm

Liviu Danceanu, "Glass-music" for 5 musicians (1985) - all performers play glass instruments (bottles, chimes, glasses etc.)
Archaeus Ensemble, cond. L. Danceanu

http://www.liviudanceanu-archaeus.ro

Liviu Danceanu was born in 1954 in Roman, Romania, Graduate of National University of Music in Bucharest (1980), chair composition, under Stefan Niculescu. Further studies at the above mentioned University (1980-1981). He attended the courses of the International Seminar on composition in Kasimiersz-Dolni (1984), where he studied with Iannis Xenakis. He made documentation journeys to Paris, London, Prague, Tallin, Warsaw, Moscow. Founder and artistic director of ARCHEUS Ensemble, with which he has participated in important international musical reunions. He conducted more than 500 concerts in Romania, Moldavia, Italy, Spain, Germany, England, Ireland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, U.S.A, Korea, Finland, France, Austria, Hungary, Ukraine, Albania, Switzerland, Denmark, Belgium, Bulgaria, Serbia. Artistic Director of the Contemporary Music Days in Bacau (since 1992), and The New Music Week in Bucharest (1992-1996 and 2001-2002). President of ISCM Romanian Department (1991-1994). He teaches history of music and composition at the National University of Music in Bucharest. He gave lectures at Hochschule fur Musik in Munchen and Detmold abteilung Munster, the Experimental Music Centre of University of Music in Carbondale, Conservatoires of Dijon, Alcoi, Lyon, Centre for Contemporary Music “Pomerigi di Musica Nuova” Torino, Union of Composers in Moscow. He has made numerous Radio and Television programmes, both in Romania and abroad, and has won many awards such as the “Studium de Toulouse Prize” (1986), the ATM Prize (1987), the UCMR Prize (1988, 1990, 1994, 2000, 2004, 2006), Romanian Academy Prize ( 1988), ACIN Prize (music for film, 1988), SOROS Prize (1997) etc. His works have been recorded (LP, CD, Audio Cassettes) in Romania, France, Spain, Italy, Holland, U.S.A, Germany. He has published studies , essays, articles, musical chronicles, interviews, in various Rumanian and foreign magazines. Works have been commissioned to him by festivals, associations and performers like: Antidogma Musica (Torino), Musica Nova (Alicante), ENSEMS (Valencia), Ofician Musical (Porto), Trieste Prima, Musique en Scene (Lyon), Composers Concordance (New York), DePaul University (Chicago), Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Concorde (Dublin). Doctor in Musicology at University of Music in Bucharest.


Liviu Danceanu: Glass Music

Octavian Nemescu: "Secula-seculorum" (2000) - computer generated music

http://nemescu.ro/en/biografie.php

Octavian Nemescu was born in 1940, in Pascani (Romania). He studied composition with Mihail Jora at the Conservatory of Music in Bucharest, between 1956-63. Later he participated to the International Summer Master Classes in Darmstadt (Germany). He obtained the PhD in musicology in 1978, at the Conservatory in Cluj, under the guidance of Sigismund Toduta. The title of his doctoral thesis was: "The semantic capacities of music", later to be published as a book, at Editura Muzicala Publishing House, Bucharest, 1983. 

He was assistant and next lecturer at Brasov University (School of Music) between 1970-1978. Afterward he was a teacher at the Music High School in Bucharest (1978-1990). 

Following 1990 he became professor at the National University of Music in Bucharest, teaching composition and tutoring postgraduate students at PhD level. 
Through many years, from his youth, he contributed decisively to the development of the avant-garde in Romanian music. He is representing the second and last generation of its kind (the generation of the 70's), which launched a new avant-garde, who has as main goal not the negation of the tradition (as previous generation did) but the recovery of the origins, of the PRIMORDIALITY existent at the fundament of all musical traditions, in the spirit of a innovative recovery and with the desire of coming to a new artistic universality. This generation may be considered also as the first one to have an aspiration of postmodern character. 

Octavian Nemescu and his colleagues launched the spectral current in Romanian music (Illuminations for orchestra, 1967), with an orientation towards the usage of the "ison" (drone). This current was animated by Corneliu Cezar, since 1965. Another current launched by Nemescu and his colleagues was the archetypal one (Concentric, 1969), based on the aesthetics of essentialisation. Alongside Corneliu Dan Georgescu, Nemescu studied, theorized and used the archetypal ideas applied to music. 




Octavian Nemescu: Secula-seculorum

Irinel Anghel, "Choix" for soprano saxophone, viola and electronics (2008)
Trio PROmoZICA: Daniel Kientzy (sax), Cornelia Petroiu (viola), Reina Portuondo (electronics)

http://www.irinelanghel.eu/
http://cimro.ro/2011/05/irinel-anghel/

Anghel, Irinel (b. May 14, 1969, Bucharest). Romanian composer of mostly orchestral and chamber works that have been performed throughout Europe and elsewhere.

Ms. Anghel studied analysis with Adrian Iorgulescu, composition with Octavian Nemescu, harmony with Adrian Ratiu, musicology with Octavian L. Cosma, and orchestration with Nicolae Beloiu at the National University of Music in Bucharest, where she graduated in 1996 and earned her MA in composition in 1997 and PhD in composition in 2003.

Among her many honors are First Prize in the competition of Romanian Radio (1998, for Mondes Impossibles I), three prizes from the Romanian Composers Union (1998-99, 2002) and the Prize of the Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999). In addition, her Mondes Impossibles I represented Romania at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers and earned a recommendation (1999). She has also earned Second Prize in the Thomas Bloch competition for glass harmonica in Paris (2000, for Glassrope), a creation grant from the Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes (2000, for Chimères – perspective magrittienne), a residency in Belgium (2000), and a creation grant from the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung (2002, for Labyrinthe II).

Irinel Anghel: Choix

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