Nicolae Brânduş
Composer and pianist Nicolae Brandus was born on 1935 in Bucharest. He studied at the National University of Music in Bucharest – piano (1952-1957) and composition (1960-1964). He attended the Summer Courses of New Music, Darmstadt (1969, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1980) and Aix-en-Provence (1979). Doctor in Musicology (1981) at the Academy of Music in Cluj-Napoca with the dissertation “Bases of a formalized analysis of the musical language”. He worked with the Group of Musical Research at IRCAM-Paris (1985). He was piano soloist of the Philharmonic Orchestra in Ploiesti (1969-1969). He was a lecturer (Chamber Music) at the National University of Music in Bucharest (1969-1981). Editor at the Muzica Review, Bucharest (since 1981). Professor of Chamber Music at the National University of Music in Bucharest (1992-2005). Scientific doctoral coordinator in National Music University in Bucharest (since 1998). Consultant Professor (since 2005).
Member of the Romanian Composers’ and Musicologists’ Union in Bucharest. Member of the Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musique (SACEM) Paris. Member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) between 1991-1993. President of the Romanian Section of the ISCM (1994-2002). His musical works were performed in the most important cities of Romania and abroad (Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Sweden, Germany, USA, France, Belgium, Holland, Great Britain, Greece, Bulgaria, Austria, Denmark, Italy, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Albania, Slovenia, Macedonia, Israel a.s.o. He has contributed articles, studies, essays in music in various cultural journals; he sustained, as visiting composer, lectures about New Music in the USA, Germany, Israel, Greece, Hong-Kong, Taiwan a.s.o.
Prizes: The Cultural Merit, Bucharest: 1969. Honourable Mention in the “Prince Pierre de Monaco International Competition”: 1973. The Prize of the Romanian Composers’ and Musicologists’ Union: 1974, 2002, 2005. The Prize of the Romanian Radio and Television for Opera and Vocal-Symphonic Music: 1975, 1977. The Prize “George Enescu” of the Romanian Academy: 1977. The Diploma of the National Theatre Festival for the spectacle “Bizarmonia”: 1999, Bucharest. Officer of the Cultural Merit: 2004, Bucharest.
MUSIC: Tubulatures