André Darius [bassist,improviser,composer]

Improvised music / dark ambient / free jazz

My Soundcloud Collaborations:
- https://soundcloud.com/soccerkev07
- https://soundcloud.com/dadala
- https://soundcloud.com/zaj-quartet
- https://soundcloud.com/sitting-wave
- https://soundcloud.com/free-variety-theatre
- https://soundcloud.com/musicaserj-ii
- https://soundcloud.com/ecstasyoffumbling
- https://soundcloud.com/wolf-size
- https://soundcloud.com/no-mates-ensemble
- https://soundcloud.com/popropo-goes-collab
- https://soundcloud.com/henry-koek
- https://soundcloud.com/biocord
- https://soundcloud.com/edafraux
- https://soundcloud.com/matt-siegel
- https://soundcloud.com/axelweis
- https://soundcloud.com/scott-wollschleger
- https://soundcloud.com/thefertile
- http://soundcloud.com/chicago_word_brigade
- http://soundcloud.com/brass-lines
- http://soundcloud.com/djrelish
- http://soundcloud.com/tramuc
- http://soundcloud.com/georges-montanard
- http://soundcloud.com/urbanomata
- http://soundcloud.com/a-cutteridge
- http://soundcloud.com/user7828480
- http://soundcloud.com/r369improv
- http://soundcloud.com/greyghost
- http://soundcloud.com/herveperez
- http://soundcloud.com/chuviradze
- http://soundcloud.com/rinswindt
- http://soundcloud.com/alynn40288
- http://soundcloud.com/kuno-wagner
- http://soundcloud.com/tkachev_vova
- http://soundcloud.com/doktorb-1
- http://soundcloud.com/freivomhieb
- http://soundcloud.com/repulzemonkey
- http://soundcloud.com/sherratto
- http://soundcloud.com/tommaso-3
- http://soundcloud.com/yuri-yaremchuk
- http://soundcloud.com/vascormorais
- http://soundcloud.com/sonicboomsoundart
- http://soundcloud.com/sammy-the-hostage-1
- http://soundcloud.com/oxfordambient
- http://soundcloud.com/riley-theodore
- http://soundcloud.com/bosspfaeffli
- http://soundcloud.com/rosendojavier
- http://soundcloud.com/remedosvarios
- http://soundcloud.com/pimplof

https://vimeo.com/user4216212/videos     I have no musical education.So please be indulgent.

image by Peter Gannushkin
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You'll find here all my unreleased tracks. 

If you don't find a track anymore, it's available in a release (see links)

Diana Rotaru (b. 1981, Bucharest) has written from chamber and orchestral music to chamber opera and soundtracks for multimedia or dance shows and short films. Her music explores different expressive directions, from hypnagogia or pre-oneiric aesthetics, feminine psyche, humor or imaginary folklore. 

She is also active as a promoter of new music in Romania, as the artistic director of MERIDIAN International Festival and the main coordinator of the Romanian Music Information Center (CIMRO.ro). Since 2019 she is president of the ISCM Romanian National Section. 

Diana Rotaru has won numerous prizes, among which the Romanian Academy’s "George Enescu" Award (2010), the ISCM-IAMIC Young Composer Award (World Music Days, Vilnius, 2008), the Irino Prize (Japan, 2004) or the "George Enescu" Prize ex-aequo (Romania, 2003 and 2005), as well as multiple awards from the Union of Composers and Musicologists in Romania. Her works have been commissioned by Ryoko Aoki (Japan), Ensemble XXI (Dijon), Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, Pärlor för svin (Sweden), Ernst von Siemens Foundation, Takefu International Music Festival, etc. 

She was a resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (autumn 2007), on a George Enescu grant from the Romanian Cultural Institute. In April 2011 she was an Artist-in-Residence at Villa Sträuli, Winterthur (Switzerland), at the invitation of Ensemble TaG, who performed her music in two concerts during that period (Verborgen in einer Muschel/ Hidden Inside a Shell – Theater am Gleis and Meet the Artist: Diana Rotaru -Villa Sträuli). In April-June 2015 she was Artist-in-Residence in Vienna, with a grant offered by the Austrian Federal Chancellery & KulturKontakt Vienna. 

Diana Rotaru is currently teaching composition at the National University of Music in Bucharest, where she studied with Ştefan Niculescu and Dan Dediu (2000-2005) and where she has a PhD in Composition (with the dissertation "The Recent Trance and the Principle of Repetition in New Music", 2012). She also studied composition with Frédéric Durieux at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (2005-2006). She participated at different summer composition courses such as Acanthes (Metz, 2008), Voix Nouvelles-Royaumont (2002 and 2006), or the International Bartok Seminary (Szombathely, 2003), thus working with Jonathan Harvey, Savatore Sciarrino, Brian Ferneyhough or Michael Jarrell, among others. In September 2018 she was invited to be an assistant professor to Toshio Hosokawa at the Takefu International Music Festival in Japan.

Born in 1984 in Yerevan, Armenia. From 1999 to 2003 have studied composition with Levon Chaushyan and flute with Evgeny Noninyan at Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory. In 2003 moved to Switzerland, where he has completed his studies in composition with Michael Jarrell, electro-acoustic music with Rainer Boesch and orchestration with Nicolas Bacri at Haute Ecole de Musique de Geneve (MA in composition, 2008). Masterclasses with composers Peter Eötvös and Tristan Murail. Attended seminars with Klaus Huber, Helmut Lachenmann, Emmanuel Nunes, Henri Dutilleux, Tristan Murail, Roland Moser and others.

Co-founded with composer and pianist Artur Avanesov the ensemble of contemporary music AUS-5 (2001-2004). From 2012 to present is a board member of Cultural.am NGO and the artistic director of Tzakhkadzor Art Summer Academy for youth artists. Member of the Association Suisse de Musiciens (2012) and Armenian Composers Union (2013). Co founder and a board member at QuarterTone organization. Artistic director of the Ensemble Assonance. In december 2018 has been appointed vice-rector for academic affairs at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory.

Among his awards are: First Prize at the "1st Pre-Art international composers competition"(Zürich, 2005), First Prize at "Fluchtwege" composers international competition organized by Musikfestival Bern(2011), Kiefer-Hablitzel Award(Bern, 2011).  Selected composer at International Composer Pyramid(UK/France, 2011) and Protonwerk #3 (Bern, 2013).

Received commissions from Collegium Novum Zürich & Pro Helvetia (2016), Armenian Association for Contemporary Music (2016), Dilijan Chamber Music Series (2015, Los Angeles), Ensemble Oktoplus and Norddeutscher Rundfunk (2014, Hannover), Ensemble Paul Klee & Pro Helvetia (2013), Ensemble Proton Bern (2012, 2013), pianist Hayk Melikyan (2012), Ensemble Nostri Temporis (2011, Kyev), Fondation Armenia (2010, Geneve), Ensemble Aequatuor & Ernst-von-Siemens Musikstiftung (2009), Ensemble Aequatuor & Nicati-de-Luze Stiftung (2008), Ensemble Laboratorium & Luzern Zu Ostern Festival (2007).

Among performers of his music are conductors Titus Engel with Collegium Novum Zürich and Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Mark Foster with Ensemble Vertigo, David Philip Hefti with Ensemble Convergence, Aurelien Azan Zielinski with Ensemble Laboratorium, Kaspar Zehnder with Ensemble Paul Klee Bern, Ruben Asatryan with Georgian National Orchestra, Peter Burwik with Ensemble XX. Jahrhundert Wien, Matthias Kuhn with Ensemble Proton Bern, ensembles Aequatuor, Nostri Temporis, Pre-Art, soloist Ernesto Molinari (clarinet), Tony Arnold (voice), Matthias Arter (oboe), Kuniko Kato (percussion), Sylvia Nopper (voice), Artur Avanesov (piano), Aleksander Gabrys (double bass), Sergej Tchirkov (accordion), pianists Hayk Melikyan, Vicky Ray and others,

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