Cătălin Creţu

Cătălin Creţu (b. September 8, 1971, Petroşani) is a Romanian composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, piano, electroacoustic, and multimedia works that have been performed in Europe. He is one of the few Romanian composers specialised in electroacoustic music.

Creţu went to a music school in Petroşani from 1977–85 and studied electromechanics at the Technical University of Petroşani from 1990–95. He studied musical pedagogy at the Western University of Timişoara from 1993–95 and then at the National University of Music in Bucharest from 1995–98; at the latter, he also took composition classes with Dan Dediu and Adrian Iorgulescu from 1996–2001 and he earned his PhD under Octavian Nemescu in 2008. He studied with Peter Michael Hamel at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg in 2001–02, as part of the ERASMUS programme, and multimedia composition with Georg Hajdu there from 2005–07. He took post-graduate studies at the Institute for Advanced Study of the New European College in Bucharest in 2004–05 and then, at Český Krumlov in 2000, Bayreuth in 2001 and Darmstadt in 2002. Cătălin Creţu graduated post-doctoral studies (2011-2012) at the National University of Music in Bucharest, as part of the MIDAS (Musical Institute for Doctoral Advanced Studies) programme.

He was a resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2009), on a George Enescu grant from the Romanian Cultural Institute. His music has been performed in France, Germany and Romania.

He worked at the National University of Music in Bucharest  as music secretary (2002-08) and, since 2008, as researcher at the Center for Electroacoustic Music and Multimedia. He currently teaches at the same University.

Cătălin Creţu is the Chairman of OPUS Association.

Official website, here.

MUSIC on internet: Entfremdetes Ich oder die Anatomie des Shattens, Lüneburg Soundscape