Laura Manolache

Laura Manolache (b. 1959, Bucharest) graduated the National Music University of Bucharest, the department of Musicology (1982) and Composition (2002). She was awarded a music doctorate for her dissertation with the title Twilight of the tonal era. At present she is teaching at the N.M.U.B. Since 1984 she has been member of the Romanian Composers’ Association and since 1991 she has also been a member of the Romanian branch of the International Society for Contemporary Music.
She has been awarded several important prizes for compositions, including the second prize in the N.M.U.B. Competition for chamber music (String Quartet – 1998) and The Grand Prix of the International Composition Competition “Aperto” (the Trio “Looks” for violin, clarinet and piano –1999).
Her oeuvre contains different instrumental – chamber opuses and also three recent symphonic works. Most of these have been recorded by the Romanian Society of Broadcasting, performed in concerts and festivals in Romania and numerous other European countries, as well as in the USA and Japan, printed by Editura Muzicală – Bucharest (Hommage – 1999, Trio”Looks” – 2000) and Müller & Schade Verlag – Berna (Ikone 2003).

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