composers
Dan Dediu
Dan Dediu (b. 1967) studied composition in Bucharest and Vienna. He has composed over 180 works covering almost all musical genres. He is the recipient of numerous national and international composition awards and serves as the artistic director of the International Week of New Music Festival. He is a professor of composition, artistic director of the Profil ensemble, and between 2008–2016, was rector of the National University of Music Bucharest. In June 2022, he was elected President of the Union of Romanian Composers and Musicologists.
dIAna rotaru
Diana Rotaru (b. 1981) has composed chamber and orchestral music, stage works, short film scores, and chamber operas. Her music explores diverse expressive directions such as hypnagogia, imaginary folklore, or humor. She studied with Ștefan Niculescu, Dan Dediu (UNMB), and Frédéric Durieux (CNSMDP), and met numerous composers during summer courses, including Salvatore Sciarrino, Jonathan Harvey, and Brian Ferneyhough. She has received awards such as the “Enescu” Prize (2003, 2005), ISCM-IAMIC Young Composer Award (2008), and the Irino Prize (Tokyo, 2004), as well as residencies in Paris (Cité des Arts, 2007), Vienna (KulturKontakt, 2015), and Winterthur (Villa Straulli, 2011). She is CIMRO coordinator and associate professor at UNMB. Since 2019, she has served as president of SNR-SIMC and artistic director of the MERIDIAN Festival.
sebastian androne-nakanischi
Sebastian Androne-Nakanishi (b. 1989) is a Romanian composer internationally acclaimed for his contemporary concert music, characterized by rich sonic imagination and structural clarity. His works have been performed by renowned ensembles such as the Diotima Quartet, BBC Singers, Shanghai Philharmonic, and Tonhalle Zürich Orchestra. A winner of the “George Enescu” Prize and the “Composer of the Year” distinction awarded by the International Classical Music Awards in 2022, Sebastian also composes film music, winning the Crystal Pine trophy in 2024 for the film “Enescu, Taken Alive.”
george păiș
George-Ioan Păiș (b. 1994) is a composer who works at the border between genres, combining the appetite for jazz harmonies, the vitality and dynamism of heavy metal music, and the rigor of traditional constructions. Besides his classical music activity, George Păiș works as composer and performer in the trio Opening Theory, a jazz-fusion formation whose sonorities traverse electronic music and progressive rock.
Gabriel Mălănicioiu
The music of Gabriel Mălăncioiu (b. 1979) has been presented to audiences on five continents in over 400 concerts, being performed by prestigious ensembles such as Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Chamber Choir of Slovenia, or the Aventure ensemble, performers such as Florian Mueller, Gudrun Hinze, or Richard Craig, conductors such as Michael Wendeberg, Huba Hollókői, or Martina Batič. Composer Corneliu Dan Georgescu noted that Gabriel Mălăncioiu is “one of the most active personalities, a self-confident and very original voice in the contemporary musical landscape”. His scores are published by Universal Edition.
cristian lolea
Cristian Lolea (b. 1977) is one of those composers who successfully and originally navigate vastly different musical realms, from avant-garde to pop-rock. His film scores have earned numerous awards, including the Georges Delerue Prize (2020), the Best Original Music Award at the Saint-Jean-de-Luz International Film Festival (2020), and the Gopo Award (2008). His works have been performed across Europe, America, and Asia, and have won prizes at prestigious national and international competitions, such as The Roads of Romanticism (2007 — First Prize) and the George Enescu International Composition Competition (2009 — Special Prize). They have also been featured in renowned international festivals, including the Warsaw Autumn, George Enescu Festival, and World Music Days.
Andrei petrache
Andrei Petrache (b. 1998) is a pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor, active on stages in Romania and abroad, with an artistic activity that extends across three continents. Double-graduate in Classical Composition and Orchestra Conducting, he is a doctoral student and associate teaching staff at UNMB. He has obtained over 30 prizes for performance and over 30 for composition, from a repertoire of over 80 works. He collaborates with prestigious ensembles and institutions, such as the “George Enescu” Philharmonic and the Radio Chamber Orchestra.
dan variu
Dan Variu (b. 1983) studied composition with masters Hans Peter Türk and Cornel Țăranu at the “Gheorghe Dima” Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca, where, in 2016, he defended his doctorate with a thesis entitled Style as a Compositional Parameter, elaborated under the guidance of Professor Cristian Misievici and published in 2020, by Presa Universitară Clujeană publishing house. His theoretical concerns are complementary to his compositional language, which cultivates polystylistic play, with the aim of obtaining a wide range of aesthetic effects, ranging from comic to tragic, aspects found in a series of choral, chamber, vocal-symphonic, and operatic creations, performed in several concert institutions in Romania, Moldova, Germany, and France.
violeta dinescu
Violeta Dinescu (b. 1953) is a composer and university professor who has lived in Germany since 1982. Her oeuvre spans a wide range of genres and has been recognized with numerous national and international awards.