The Association “Transylvania Art and Science”, Cluj-Napoca, Romania in collaboration with the “Gheorghe Dima” National Music Academy Cluj-Napoca is pleased to announce the International Conference Thanatos in Contemporary Music: from the Tragic to the Grotesque - October 30th and 31st, 2020 (ZOOM platform, each day from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Romanian time).
The event is organised within the Festival A Tribute to György Ligeti in his Native Transylvania - 3nd edition, supported by:A.F.C.N. Romania and the Town Hall of the city of Cluj-Napoca. Festival director: Dr. Bianca Ţiplea Temeş.
The present edition of the festival reflects the ways in which the subject of death is approached in contemporary music and Ligeti serves as an ideal focus for both the conference and its accompanying concerts. In the context of the current global pandemic, this might be said to be rather darkly appropriate, especially at Halloween in Transylvania.
Between the volatile, sublime ”Lux aeterna”, the dramatic ”Requiem”, the evocation of Romanian folk laments in the Piano Étude ”Automne à Varsovie” and the strong grotesque flavour of the opera ”Le Grand Macabre”, Ligeti´s music explores a wide range of funebral nuances. Through his music, researchers are invited to explore the music of many other composers whose work occupies similar emotional terrain.
The conference brings together contributors from leading European and American Universities, aiming to outline the many masks of Thanatos, as a kaleidoscope made by pieces of Béla Bartòk, Arnold Schönberg, György Ligeti, Bruno Maderna, Ștefan Niculescu, Myriam Marbe, Zoltán Jeney, Violeta Dinescu, Doina Rotaru, Zygmunt Mycielski, Roman Palester, Dan Dediu, Kaija Saariaho, etc.
The conference concludes with the presentation of the new volume A Tribute to György Ligeti in his Native Transylvania, edited by Bianca Țiplea Temeș and Kofi Agawu at MediaMusica, Cluj-Napoca.
We welcome participants from around the world to attend this event via ZOOM, by filling in the FREE REGISTRATION FORM, by October 25th:
https://forms.gle/WnNxnELhrooWW5Ex7
The festival will be streamed online,
between October 28th to November 1st, 2020, at www.ligetifestival.ro
Conference program:
Hermann Danuser (keynote speaker) (Humboldt University Berlin): Memorial-Topic in the 20th Century, or: Schoenberg’s Modernist Genealogies
Wolfgang Marx (University College Dublin): “a long time spent in the shadow of death”. Death and Mourning in Ligeti’s Music
László Vikárius (Bartók Archives, Institute for Musicology, Research Centre for the Humanities Budapest): “This is my death song”: Between “funèbre” and “grotesque” in Béla Bartók’s Compositions of 1908
Zoltán Farkas (Béla Bartók Memorial House, Budapest): Zoltán Jeney’s Funeral Rite
Amy Bauer (University of California, Irvine): “Are you dead, like us?” The liminal status of the undead in the music of Ligeti
Beata Bolesławska-Lewandowska (Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw): Zygmunt Mycielski’s “Rescue” songs to words by Czesław Miłosz and Roman Palester’s “Requiem” – two ways for reflecting death in Polish music shortly after WW2
Benjamin Levy (University of California, Santa Barbara): Death in Hamburg? Memorial Aspects of Ligeti’s Late Concerto
Olguța Lupu (National University of Music Bucharest): From Thanatos to Elysian Fields in Dan Dediu’s Music
Elena Maria Șorban (Gh. Dima National Music Academy Cluj-Napoca): Exercises on Dying? Reflexions on Ligeti’s Unpublished Early Latin Cantatas
Pavel Pușcaș.(Gh. Dima National Music Academy Cluj-Napoca): Bruno Maderna’s Requiem
Bianca Țiplea Temeș (Gh. Dima National Music Academy Cluj-Napoca): The sound of tears falling: the Dawn Song (Cântecul zorilor) in Romanian composition
Festivalul internațional “Iubiți muzica româneasca!”
– Proiect cultural co-finanţat de Administraţia Fondului Cultural Naţional*
*Proiectul nu reprezintă în mod necesar poziţia Administrației Fondului Cultural Național. AFCN nu este responsabilă de conținutul proiectului sau de modul în care rezultatele proiectului pot fi folosite. Acestea sunt în întregime responsabilitea beneficiarului finanțării.
Program detaliat AICI.
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Colocviu de muzicologie
12 OCT 2017 / 16:00
Sala Cercului Militar Arad
Evoluția muzicii contemporane românești în context mondial
Moderator:
Conf. univ. dr. Veronica Laura Demenescu
Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, Facultatea de Muzică și Teatru
Vorbitori:
Adrian Iorgulescu
Heidemarie T. Ambros
Elena Maria Șorban
Mihaela Silvia Roşca
Veronica Laura Demenescu
Rafaela Carabenciov
Dana Sorina Chifu
Ion Alexandru Ardereanu
Iulia Roman
Anda Icleanu
Concert simfonic inaugural
12 OCT 2017 / 19:00
Sala Cercului Militar Arad
Compozitori bănăţeni
Dirijor: Huba Holloköi – Finlanda
Solişti: Andreea Dumitrescu – pian, Sergiu Cârstea – trompetă
Invitat: actorul Adrian Korek (Facultatea de Muzică și Teatru a U.V.T.)
Program
Sabin Drăgoi: Divertisment rustic
Gabriel Almaşi: The Mysterious Journey Of Life (p.a.a.)
Remus Georgescu: Toccata pentru pian și orchestră
Walter Michael Klepper: Divertisment pentru orchestră de coarde și timpani
Petru Stoianov: Hiperboreeana
Gabriel Mălăncioiu: Zamolxis pentru trompetă și orchestra
Concert
13 OCT 2017 / 19:00
Sala Cercului Militar Arad
Percutissimo – Ansamblul de percuţie al Facultăţii de Muzică din Timişoara
Coordonator: Doru Roman
Membri: Patricia Popescu, Amelia Trifu, Tiberiu Szalma, Daniel Cuibariu -Jumuga, Patrick Cojerean
Invitaţi: Lucia şi Mario Florescu
Program:
Laura Manolache: Himera apelor
Aurel Stroe: Il giardino delle strutture
Doina Rotaru: Noesis
Darie Nemeș Bota: Fight And Light
Adrian Iorgulescu: Ipostaze IV
Cvartetul de clarinete „Academic” al Filarmonicii Gheorghe Dima Braşov
Soliști:
Iulian Rusu – clarinet I
Izsak Jenö – clarinet II
Ionel Pârlea – clarinet III
Ilie Carp – clarinet bas
Program:
Béla Bartók ar. Ioan Dobrinescu: Sonatina
Sabin Păutza: Suita
Ioan Dobrinescu: De treci codrii de abanos
Ciprian Porumbescu ar. Ioan Dobrinescu: Hora Braşovului
Ion Scărlătescu ar. Ioan Dobrinescu: Bagatella
Richard Oschanitsky: Cearta
Ioan Dobrinescu: Ciocârlia
Romeo Cozma: Fantezie pentru cvartet de clarinet
Eumenidele (Orestia III) de Aurel Stroe
14 OCT 2017 / 19:00
Sala Cercului Militar Arad
Spectacol de operă realizat în colaborare cu Centrul Cultural „Aurel Stroe” Buşteni
Cu participarea extraordinară a saxofonistului Daniel Kientzy (Franţa)
Dirijor: Cezar Verlan
Distribuţie:
Atena – Cosmina Ivan
Oreste – Cristian Ardelean
Apollo – Nicolae Haţegan
Corul Eriniilor/Eumenidelor
Ana Maria Stănoia, Cosmina Şerban, Corina Chetrean, Ovidiu Cozma,
Alexandru Șuca, Bogdan Sărăcin
Constantin Spurcaciu – asistent regie și figuraţie
Grigore Golubeanu – lumini şi figuratie
Alexandru Voinea – scenografie şi figuraţie
Regia colectivă
Spectacol de film mut şi muzică
15 OCT 2017 / 19:00
Sala Regele Ferdinand
TABU (1931) – regia Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, muzica Violeta Dinescu
Trio Contraste: Ion Bogdan Ştefănescu – flaut, Sorin Petrescu – pian, Doru Roman – percuţie
În colaborare cu Dorin Cuibariu – clarinet, saxofon
„Viaţa în doi” – Recital de familii
16 OCT 2017 / 19:00
Colegiul de arte Sabin Drăgoi
Bianca Luigia Manoleanu (soprana) – Remus Manoleanu (pian)
Adriana Dogariu (pian) – Sorin Dogariu (pian)
Mihaela Faur (harpă) – Vlad Faur (trombon)
Carmen Iuga (vioară) – Dorel Iuga (flaut)
Program:
Bianca Luigia Manoleanu / Remus Manoleanu
Mihai Brediceanu – Trei cântece pe versuri de Lucian Blaga
Theodor Grigoriu – La Steaua (Eminescu), Numai Poetul … (Eminescu)
Dan Voiculescu – Laudă omului (Nichita Stănescu), Muzica (Nichita Stănescu)
Adrian Iorgulescu – Cântecele stihuitorului (Lucian Blaga)
1 Cântec înainte de a adormi
2 Cântecul așteptării
3 Cântecul obârșiei
4 Cântecul șoimului
5 Cântecul vârstelor
6 Sub stele
George Balint – Un nod, un semn și un mic poem (Nichita Stănescu)
Ulpiu Vlad – Lumină (din ciclul Mozaic)
Darie Nemeș Bota – lieduri pe versuri de Răzvan Popotan
Imagini de Luni
Poema de Miercuri
Visul de Duminică
Philipp Herschkowitsch – Margini de seară (Ion Barbu)
Ana Szilagyi – Patru lieduri pe versuri de Antonio Mazzo
Mihai Măniceanu – Două lieduri pe versuri de Ilie Comăniță
De toate
Iele
Dan Buciu – Înțeleptul și poezia (Omar Khayyam)
Adriana Dogariu / Sorin Dogariu
Anatol Vieru: Nașterea unui limbaj
Mihaela Faur / Vlad Faur
Cornelia Tăutu – Ad astra
Carmen Iuga / Dorel Iuga
Ioan Căianu – Suită de dansuri româneşti
Doina Rotaru – Mesto pentru flaut alto şi vioară
“Muzica românească în mâinile tinerilor interpreţi”
17 OCT 2017 / 19:00
Colegiul de arte Sabin Drăgoi
Duo Vivo – Radu Ţaga (fagot), Marko Ristic – Serbia (acordeon)
Ansamblul Volte – Ramona Morăriţa (soprană), Laura Roman (vioară), Iuliana Ambăruş (violă), Andreea Olariu (pian)
Program:
Duo Vivo
Corneliu Dan Georgescu – Transsilvanische Motive
Laura Mânzat: Arbor – Cavatina pentru fagot și acordeon
Paul Jelescu – Rapsodia dobrogeană
Ansamblul Volte
Lucian Beschiu: Văz duhul (p. a. a.) pe versuri de Nicolae Coman
George Balint: Zî (p. a. a.)
Roman U. Vlad: Domnișoara Pogany
Ionică Pop: Zbor prin rostul clipei (pe versuri de Grigore Golubeanu)
Andrei Tănăsescu: La vie en dose
Recital
18 OCT 2017 / 19:00
Colegiul de arte Sabin Drăgoi
Diana Moş – vioară, Mihai Ungureanu – pian
Trio Syrinx – Dorel Baicu (flaut), Dorin Gliga (oboi), Pavel Ionescu (fagot)
Program:
Trio Syrinx
Corneliu Cezar: Ziua fără sfârșit
Duo Diana Moș (vioară) – Mihai Ungureanu (pian)
Tiberiu Olah: Sonatina pentru vioară și pian
Pascal Bentoiu: Sonata pentru vioară și pian
George Enescu: Sonata a III-a pentru vioară și pian în caracter popular românesc
Concert vocal simfonic
19 OCT 2017 / 19:00
Sala Cercului Militar Arad
Dirijor Dorin Frandeş
Dirijorul corului Robert Daniel Rădoiaş
Solişti:
Dorel Baicu – flaut
Dorin Gliga – oboi
Pavel Ionescu – fagot
Program:
Adrian Pop: Triptic
Ulpiu Vlad: Sonorități și Anemone IV – Concert pentru flaut, oboi, fagot și orchestră (p. a. a.)
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Adrian Iorgulescu: Divertisment pentru orchestră de coarde
Dan Dediu: Unda lucis – cantata pentru mezzosoprană, cor și orchestră (p. a. a.)
Lecturer professor Ph. Dr. Ecaterina Banciu has been a faculty member of the “Gheorghe Dima” Music Academy in Cluj since 2002, actively involved in musicological research and teaching and herself an alumna of the Academy. She has published various articles, studies and two books (Aesthetic Archetypes of the Ethos-Affectionate Relationship in the History of Music – Editura MediaMusica, Cluj-Napoca, 2006; Musicological Itineraries: Mozart, Puccini, Toduţă, Terényi – Editura MediaMusica, Cluj-Napoca, 2009) and History of Music (Module of study for University Studies by Distance Learning) – Ed. MediaMusica, Cluj-Napoca, 2009).
Her research interests cover topics such as hermeneutics. As an example we have the following study - Hermeneutic Aspects of Cornel Ţăranu’s Chamber Work ‘Oreste & Oedipus’ (2007). Shw wrote articles on Mozart’s works: Shakespeare’s Spirit in Mozart’s Works (2004); The Minuet in Mozart’s Chamber Works (2005), The Clarinet in Mozart’s Works (2006), The obsession of a theme:. „La ci darem la mano” by Mozart (2010); Romantic music: Stylistic perspectives of the Valse: chamber, symphonic and coreographic (2009), Behind Manfred – Byron, Schumann and Tchaikovsky (2010); postromantic music: Ist dies etwa derTod? – Vier letzte Lieder by Richard Strauss (2011); veristic opera: The enigma of Puccini -Turandot; Romanian contemporary music: Ovid’s effigy in Sigismund Toduţă’s Third Symphony (2004); Toduţă antiques (2007); Ede Terényi and the four Seasons (2005), Ede Terényi: Tribute for Mozart (2008), Sigismund Toduţă’s Choir Works – Cluj premiere (2008); musical archetypes: From “Viersuri de dor” to “Ciaccona”. Vasile Herman, co-author: Gabriel Banciu (2009), Enesco’s echos: „Rimembranza” for orchestra by Cornel Ţăranu, co-author Gabriel Banciu, Syntactic-semantic aspects in “Ethos 1″ and “Solstice” by Adrian Pop (2012);Intended repertoire: “Star of the day” by Tudor Jarda a choreographic poem with chorus and narrator (2012), Through the Maze of Word Processing (2013) and The history of a forgotten Passacaglia: end of the 3rd Symphony, „Ovidiu” by Sigismund Toduţă (2013).
Composer and musicologist Constantin Rîpă was born in Smulţi, Galaţi, Romania, in 1938. He graduated the „Gheorghe Dima” Music Conservatory in Cluj-Napoca, where he studied with Tudor Jarda, Dorin Pop, Sigismund Toduţă. He has been conducting the Antifonia choir from 1969.
In 1982 he graduated his PhD studies in Stylistics Musicology at the the „Gheorghe Dima” Music Conservatory, having Sigismund Toduta as a mentor. Presently he is a Professor at the same academy, teaching Music Theory, Solfege, Music Dictation, while also being a PhD thesis coordinator. He also is a member of the Romanian Union of Composers and Musicologists.
His work consists in choir, chamber, symphonic and vocal symphonic music . He has published 12 studies of musicology at the “Gh. Dima” Conservatory; 3 of his Music Theory studies are translated and published in several countries.
Irina Boga is a graduate of two sections within the Universityof Music: Musicology – FCMPM (2002) and Harpsichord – FIM (2004). Between October 2002 and July 2003 she benefited from a mobility Grant destined to Socrate/ ERASMUS students at Hogeschool Antwerpen – at the Drama, Music and Dance department (Belgium). In 2010 – was awarded the PHD title after presenting a thesis named Aesthetic Principles in the English Baroque and their Interpretational Applications. She is presently lecturer at the National University of Music in Bucharest and has just finished the research within the MIDAS programme initiated by the PHD Musical Institute. The thesis developed within this project is called HÄNDEL, a Citizen of the European Community – avant la lettre.
Irina Boga’s musicological activity is combined with the pedagogical one: musicology and history of music courses, musical aesthetics and musicology seminars and harpsichord. She collaborates with different cultural magazines from Bucharest: Revista Muzica (Music Magazine), Actualitatea Muzicală (Musical Updates), Revista Opera (Opera Magazine), Revista Melos (Melos Magazine), Revista 21 (21 Magazine), Akademos, Magazin Istoric (Historic Magazine). She presently is editor in chief of the Accord Magazine published by the Bucharest National University of Music. She signed radio and TV productions for Radio Romania Music, amongst which: Histories on a scale or Musicians’ Childhood. Irina Boga regularly takes part at scientific sessions at the Bucharest National University of Music, but also at international seminars, and for the last two years has been organizing The Musicologic Symposium at the BNUM. She also has an impressive activity as a harpsichordist in individual recitals or in chamber music concerts, switching easily from the baroque repertoire to the contemporary one.
Studies: Akademos, magazine published by the BNUM : «Baroque, a fantomatic world of brilliance » – no. 4/2009, “The English Paradox, as a British Land-mark” no. 4/2009, “Haendel – French Arias”, no. 4/2009, “Interpretation Elements in the Baroque Suite”, no 4/2010, “Baroque Elements in George Enescu’s Compositions”, no. 4/2010.
Articles : George Enescu – Festival Journal, September 2007 : « Why play music ? », “Pleasant surprises in the Festival’s Square”, “Cultural defrost”, “For and Against”, “Between the Romanian Athenaeum and the Palace Hall” (I, II), “The Festival Square – final echoes”; Melos Magazine – « The Instrument of the Angels » – april 2008, « Haydn in English », “Maria Joao Pires or about finesse” - September 2009; Acord Journal: “Unobservantly becoming observant” – February 2009, “Years of a Student” – April 2009, “The Key Festival”, “Journey Diaries” – June 2009, “Akademos and the Musical Pedagogy” – December 2010, “Interview with Maestro Christian Badea” – February 2010, “Akademos Magazine no. 4”, “Reflections on a Keyboard” – March 2011, “Maestro Horia Andreescu – ideas about an Orchestra Internship” – June 2011; Historic Magazine: « Famous Love Relationships – Clara and Robert Schumann » – October 2010
The book – programme for the XXth Edition of the « George Enescu » International Festival, along with Alice Tacu.
Books: Irina Boga, Grigore Constantinescu – A journey through Music History:Didactic and Pedagogic Publishing House – 2008; Sherban Lupu - The Art of the Fiddlers, a source for the Modern Violin Technique – the English edition, Casa Radio Publishing House 2010; Irina Boga – The English Baroque – Behaviour and Temper, The Musical Publishing House, 2011; Sherban Lupu – Irina Boga – Unknown Enescu – interview book, also translated in English, the Casa Radio Publishing House, 2011.
Symposiums, scientific sessions: 13th of April 2006 – participation at the « Mozart in our days » musicology symposium with a work named “Mozart… after Mozart” (published in a volume entitled “W. A. Mozart – contemporary perspectives”, Bucharest National University of Music); 28 – 29th of September 2007 – participation at the “Romanticism as an Attitude” International Symposium held at the Strasbourg Conservatoire with a work called “Romanian Musical Romanticism”; 18th of January 2007, participation at the 9th edition of the Ancient Music Artistic and Scientific Session within the BNUM – “English Baroque – Epoch, Personalities, creation” with a work called “The English Paradox”; 5th of December 2008 – organization of the « Grigore Constantinescu – Seven Musical Decades” Musicology Symposium and Contest at the BNUM; 5th of April 2011 – organization of the Musicology Symposium « Artists’ Anniversaries » and participation with a work called “Gustav and Alma or music and love”; 9th of September 2011, participation at the “George Enescu” International Musicology Symposium in Bucharest, with a work called “Oedip or Destiny’s Problems – between myth and illusion”; 15th of May 2012 – organization of a Musicology Symposium by the title of « Composers at anniversary moments » at the BNUM.
Irina Niţu was born in 1982, Iaşi, Romania. She teaches piano classes and music theory at Mozartinno School in Bucharest. Before arriving here, she was collaborating editor at SRR, the National Broadcasting Radio in Bucharest (2005-2010) and a piano teacher at Dinu Lipatti National College of Music, Bucharest (2006-2010).
Her activity and interest in contemporary music is shown in several studies and analyzes published in Muzica Magazine, Actualitatea Muzicală, cimec.ro., No14PlusMinus, Contemporania. Her Batchelor degree in Musicology (2005), Master (2006) and Ph.D (2011) received from National University of Music, Bucharest are all based on contemporary musical aspects. In 2003 she obtained a Socrate-Erasmus scholarship at Universidade de Aveiro, Departamento de Comunicação e Arte, Aveiro, Portugal; she was awarded with First Prize at Musicological contest George Breazul, Bucharest, 2005 and collaborated with Parisian publishing house Nova Musica. She was a jury member in regional piano contests (Reşiţa, 2008), and she has an intense activity as a concert presenter (Bucharest, Timisoara, Resita, Busteni).
Vasile Iliuţ (1933-2004) was born on the 12th of October, in the village of Rasinari, close to the town of Sibiu. He graduated music pedagogy (1964) and composition (1967) at the National University of Music in Bucharest (at that time, the “Ciprian Porumbescu” Conservatory). During his years of study, he won many important prizes. He participated in the 4th European Seminar if Early Music in Bruges, where he studied with Saford Cape. He also studied with Erich Schenck, professor at the Musikwissenschaftliches Institut der Universitat Wien. He taught Music Literature and Music History at the University of Music in Bucharest from 1964-2004. He was Secretary of the Musicology Department and, since1996, Dean of the Faculty of Composition, Musicology and Music Pedagogy. During the years 1977-2004 he led and guided more than 300 papers (diploma level in university education) and over 40 doctoral works in higher education. Vasile Iliut defended his PhD dissertation in 1992, under the title of Composition and folk music in the XX century (advisor, Octavian Lazar-Cosma). He published many papers, courses, musicological studies and held many conferences.
Books: Universal Music History (XIX-XX) (collaboration with Prof. Ovidiu Varga and lecturer Ioanna Stefanescu),”Ciprian Porumbescu” Conservatory, Bucharest, 1960-1972; From Wagner to Contemporary, 5 volumes: Tome I: German and Austrian music in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: “Ciprian Porumbescu” Conservatory, Bucharest, 1984; Tome II: National Music Cultures in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century:”Ciprian Porumbescu” Conservatory, Bucharest, 1986; Tome III: Current Trends and Non-Romantics of the End of the Nineteenth Century and Early Twentieth Century: Editura Muzicala, Bucharest, 1997 (awarded with the Prize of the Romanian Composers’ Union, 1997); Tome IV: National Musical Cultures in Twentieth Century Music: Editura Muzicala, Bucharest, 1998; Tome V: Heterogeneous Cultures in Twentieth Century Music: Editura Muzicala, Bucharest , 2001; A Book of Musical Styles, 2 volumes: Tome I: From Antiquity to Classical Music Style: Academy Publishing, 1997 (awarded the prize of the Romanian Union of Composers on Musicologists, 1997); Tome II: From Romantic Music Styles to Modern and Contemporary Styles. [Manuscript, editing in progress].
Studies: “Reflections on Contemporary Romanian Music, Viewed through the Prism of Tradition and Innovation”, Cercetari de muzicologie, no. 3/1971. 3/1971; “Contemporary Axiology in Romanian Music”, Forum, no. 8/1976; “The Dynamics of Professional Music in Romania”, Forum, no. 5/1978; “Arnold Schoenberg – Painter”, Studii de muzicologie, no.XVI/1981; “Romanian Views on the Age of Music”, SPMD Artistc Bulletin, no. 1-2/1985; “Victor Giuleanu at 80”, Muzica, no 4/1994.
Website, HERE.
Speranta Radulescu is senior researcher in ethnomusicology, at the Peasant Museum and at the National University of Music in Bucharest. She was born in Buzau, 1949 and she graduated in musical composition (1967-1973) with a doctor’s degree in musicology (1984). She worked first with the Ethnography and Folklore Institute and later with the Peasant Museum in Bucharest. Her very wide research field involves the classification and typology of Romanian peasant music, folk harmonization, the music of the Roma from Romania, new musics (pan-Balkan fusion, world music), the musical reflection of the Romanian social-political structure and ideology, media musics and minorities’ musics (Hungarian, Ukrainian, Jewish, Roma, Aromanian). She edited traditional music records and series of records (in Romania, Switzerland, France, USA, Germany), published five books (one of which, À tue tête. Chant et violon dans le pays de l’Oach, Roumanie – Out Loud. Songs and Violins in the Land of Oas, Romania, with French researchers Bernard Lortat-Jacob and Jacques Bouët, was released in Paris, and afterwords published in Romania), and a small book dedicated to the musicians of the Gypsy band Le taraf des Haidouks (Eng. Outlaws) – Hopa tropa Europa. She organized traditional music concerts in Romania and abroad. Since 2005, she is Associate Professor at the National University of Music in Bucharest.
Speranta Radulescu is member of the Romanian Composers’ Union (member of the Musicology Dept. since 1979), the French Ethnomusicology Society and ICTM (International Council for Traditional Music). Among her many awards, she received the Romanian Academy Award (1987), the Romanian Interpreters’ Union Award (1994), the Excellence Price of the review „Formula As” (2002) and the “Cultural Merit” medal, Ist class (2004). She was nominated for the “Preis der Deutschen Shallplattenkritik”, for the CD “Gypsy Music from Central Transylvania” (Ethnophonie 007) and for the CD “festive Musics of the Jews from the Botosani Region” (Ethnophonie 012). In 2005 she was awarded the Price “Coup de coeur” of the Charles Cros Academy (France) for the first ten records of the collection “Ethnophonie” and, in 2006, the “Preis des Deutschen Shallplatten Kritik” for the CD “The Aromanians of Andon Poçi: Songs and Stories / Albania” (Ethnophonie 012)
Extensive works: Taraful şi acompaniamentul în muzica de joc / The Folk Band and the harmonic accompaniment in the dance music, Bucureşti , Ed.Muzicală, 1984; Cîntecul liric. Tipologie muzicală / The Lyrical Song. Musical Typology, Bucureşti, Ed. Muzicală, 1990; Peisaje muzicale in Romania secolului XX /Musical Landscapes in 20th Century Romania, Bucureşti, Ed. Muzicală, 2002; À tue tete. Chant et violon au Pays d’Oach, Roumanie, Nanterre, Société d’ethnologie, 2002 (in cooperation with Bernard Lortat-Jacob and Jacques Bouët) (translated and published also in Romania, Din răsputeri. Glasuri şi cetere din Ţara Oaşului, Institutul cultural român, 2006); Taifasuri despre muzica tiganeasca/Chats about Gypsy Music, Bucuresti, Ed. Paideia, 2004; Ethnophonie series of records (22 CDs with booklets, 23 cassettes), 1992-2012, Bucureşti, Muzeul Ţăranului.
She produced 16 CDs with Romanian traditional music, published in different countries (France, USA, Switzerland, Germany). She has written more than one hundred articles published in Romania and abroad (France, Bulgaria, Check Republik, Croatia, Germany, Greece, France, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, USA) and she was involved in more than one hundred radio broadcasts for the Romanian Broadcast Society.
Olguţa Lupu studied piano, then graduated in composition in 1993, at the class of Tiberiu Olah. Doctor in Musicology, she is a member of the Union of Romanian Composers and Musicologists. Presently, she teaches music theory and orchestral score reading at the National Music University of Bucharest, where she is also director of the Department “Musicology and Sciences of Music Education”. She presented papers in different national and international conferences and symposia, realized radio broadcasts and published several studies, mostly focused on Romanian contemporary composers or Music Education. Coordinator of the cultural program Tiberiu Olah şi multiplele faţete ale postmodernismului (“Tiberiu Olah and the multiple faces of Postmodernism”, 2008), including a symposium with international participation. Author of three books: Music in the First Part of the 20th Century – Rhythmic-temporal Hypostases (Ed. UNMB, 2005), Music in the Middle of 20th Century – A Rhythmic-temporal Perspective (Ed. UNMB, 2005); Reading in Clefs – a Problem? (Ed. UNMB, 2007). Co-author and editor of the volumes Tiberiu Olah – Restitutions and Tiberiu Olah and the multiple facets of postmodernism (2008); she realized a website dedicated to T. Olah. Some of her musical works are recorded and performed in different concerts in Romania and abroad.

