Violeta Dinescu

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Violeta Dinescu
Violeta Dinescu (2005)
Born (1953-07-13) 13 July 1953 (age 70)
Bucharest, Romania
Education"Ciprian Porumbescu" conservatory
Occupations
  • Composer
  • Pianist
  • Academic teacher
OrganizationsUniversity of Oldenburg

Violeta Dinescu (born 13 July 1953) is a Romanian composer, pianist and academic teacher, living in Germany since 1982.

Romania

Born in Bucharest, Dinescu began her studies of music in 1972 at the conservatory "Ciprian Porumbescu" in Bucharest, composition with

Pedagogics. She started teaching at the George Enescu Music School in Bucharest, conducting courses in Music history, Aesthetics, Counterpoint, Harmony
and Piano. In 1980 she joined the Romanian Composers Union.

Germany, operas

In 1982 she moved to

Staatsoper Hamburg in 2004.[4] She worked for the Austrian theatre ARBOS on two music theatre projects, "The Singing of The Fools About Europe"[5] and "The Concert of Birds".[6] Herzriss, an opera in nuce for voice and percussion after Homer, Ionesco and Márquez, premiered in 2005.[7]

Teaching

Since 1986 she has been teaching at German music academies in Heidelberg, Frankfurt, Bayreuth, and since 1996 as a professor of Applied Composition at the University of Oldenburg.[1] There she started in 1996 to invite composers to a yearly Komponisten-Colloquium, in 2009 among others Jean-Luc Darbellay and Graham Waterhouse.[8]

Violeta Dinescu has been an executive board member of the International Alliance of Women in Music' since 1987. Her works were published by Verlag Dohr and Schott Music, among others.

Work

The prolific composer of orchestral music, chamber music, choral and vocal music received many international prizes and awards. Major commissioned works include Akrostichon and L‘ORA X for orchestra, an oratorio for Pentecost, Pfingstoratorium, music for the F. W. Murnau silent film Tabu and the ballets Der Kreisel and Effi Briest.[9]

Her works include:

  • Akanua, piano, 1974
  • Sonata, violin or viola, piano, 1975
  • In meinem Garten, text by Ana Blandiana, children’s chorus, 1980
  • Mondnächte, text by
    Joseph von Eichendorff
    , mezzo-soprano, saxophone, percussion, 1986
  • Akrostichon, orchestra, 1983
  • Der Kreisel, ballet, scenario after Eduard Mörike, orchestra, 1985
  • Hunger und Durst, chamber opera, libretto by the composer after Ionesco, small orchestra (14 players), 1985
  • Concerto, voice, orchestra, 1986
  • Quatrain, text by François Villon, female voice, 1986
  • Dona nobis pacem, mezzo-soprano, cello (+ percussion), 1987
  • Tabu, film score for silent movie, small orchestra, 1988
  • ICHTHYS, violin, cello, piano, 1991
  • Der 35 Mai, children’s opera, libretto by the composer after Kästner, 3 soloists, 8 mixed voices, children’s chorus, orchestra, 1986
  • Eréndira, chamber opera, libretto by the composer after Márquez, 7 soloists, small orchestra, 1992
  • Pfingstoratorium, 5 soloists, mixed chorus, small orchestra, 1993
  • Schachnovelle, chamber opera, libretto by the composer after Stefan Zweig, 3 soloists, chamber ensemble, 1994
  • L'ORA X, orchestra, 1995
  • Self-Reflections I/II, piano, live electronics, 1996–97
  • Effi Briest, ballet, scenario after Theodor Fontane, orchestra, 1998
  • Vortex – Wolken I, II und III, small orchestra, 1998
  • Licht-Bruch, accordion, 2001
  • Rugá, clarinet, double bass, accordion, 2001
  • Herzriss, opera in nuce, female voice and percussion, 2005

References

  1. ^ a b Label TROUBADISC CDs and Biography
  2. ^ German Academic Exchange Service 2005
  3. ^ The Living Composers Project Biography, List of Works with instrumentation, Discography, 2002
  4. ^ Staatsoper Hamburg (in German)
  5. ^ "Der Gesang der Narren von Europa", libretto by Herbert Gantschacher and Dževad Karahasan, ARBOS-CD 1998 live recorded by ORF 1994
  6. ISBN 3-85266-037-8
    live recorded by ORF 1997
  7. ^ MUGI Biography, works (in German)
  8. ^ University of Oldenburg announcement of the Composers Colloquium, 2009 (in German)
  9. ^ Künstlerinnenverband Bremen Short Biography

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