Sunday 27 November 2016, 8pm
Iancu Dumitrescu is considered one of the leaders of the spectral music trend at a worldwide level. In 1976 he founded the HYPERION Ensemble, proposing a new aesthetic in today’s music, hyper-spectral, based on the radiant power of sound, within its microcosmic complexity - which is questioned, analyzed, re-composed from a spectral perspective. Ana-Maria Avram is a composer, pianist, conductor, born in 1961 in Bucharest, Romania. She studied composition at the National University of Music- Bucharest and musical aesthetics at Sorbonne, Paris. She has been a member of the Hyperion Ensemble since 1988. Her music is affiliated with the spectral music trend and incorporates the outward semblance of abstraction of archetypal sound, achieving its full development in the synthesis of electroacoustic and instrumental sources.
Iancu Dumitrescu (b. 1944) graduated from composition at the University of Music in Bucharest in 1968 and studied phenomenology and conducting with Sergiu Celibidache, 1978. Founder and conductor of the Hyperion Ensemble, his music is also performed by other soloists and ensembles. He has given lectures, masterclasses, workshops, and founded of the first Electronic Music Studio in Bucharest in 1967, as well as a published music criticism widely in Romania before 1989.
His music is published by Editions Salabert (Paris), Gerig Musikverlage (Cologne), ReR Megacorp (London), Edition RZ (Berlin), l'Escargot - CBS Disques (Paris), ARTGallery (Paris), Generation Unlimited (New-York & Boston), Electrecord and Editura Muzicală (Bucharest), Mego (Austria).
Opera omnia is published on 32 CDs and 2 DVDs by EDITION MODERN (London-Paris)
Ana-Maria Avram is a composer, pianist, conductor, born in 1961 in Bucharest, Romania. She studied composition at the National University of Music- Bucharest and musical aesthetics at Sorbonne, Paris. She has been a member of the Hyperion Ensemble since 1988. Her music is affiliated with the spectral music trend and incorporates the outward semblance of abstraction of archetypal sound, achieving its full development in the synthesis of electroacoustic and instrumental sources. She composed since now around 130 works, music for soloists, chamber music, music for orchestra, electronic music and computer assisted music including commissions from the Kronos Quartet (San Francisco) Ç 20 Jahrhundert È from Vienna, soloists from l’Orchestre National de France, orchestras as Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra, Romanian National Orchestra, Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra and L’Orchestre de Chambre de Roumanie amongst many others.
