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Anghel, Irinel (b. May 14, 1969, Bucharest). Romanian composer of mostly orchestral and chamber works that have been performed throughout Europe and elsewhere.
Ms. Anghel studied analysis with Adrian Iorgulescu, composition with Octavian Nemescu, harmony with Adrian Ratiu, musicology with Octavian L. Cosma, and orchestration with Nicolae Beloiu at the National University of Music in Bucharest, where she graduated in 1996 and earned her MA in composition in 1997 and PhD in composition in 2003.
Among her many honors are First Prize in the competition of Romanian Radio (1998, for Mondes Impossibles I), three prizes from the Romanian Composers Union (1998-99, 2002) and the Prize of the Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999). In addition, her Mondes Impossibles I represented Romania at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers and earned a recommendation (1999). She has also earned Second Prize in the Thomas Bloch competition for glass harmonica in Paris (2000, for Glassrope), a creation grant from the Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes (2000, for Chimères – perspective magrittienne), a residency in Belgium (2000), and a creation grant from the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung (2002, for Labyrinthe II).
Most recently, she received the Uchimura Prize from the International Theatre Institute/UNESCO (2002, shared with the creative team of The Bloodied Lovers), the prize of the journal Actualitatea Muzicala in Bucharest (2003, for her work with Pro Contemporania), the Camajani Fellowship from New York University (2003, to lecture there), and the International New Music Consortium Award in New York (2003, for her work in all areas of new music). Her music has been performed in Albania, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Moldova, The Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, and the USA and has been broadcast throughout the world.
Ms. Anghel is also active in other positions. She founded the ensemble Pro Contemporania in Bucharest in 1990, of which she has since served as artistic director and in which she plays numerous instruments. She has been active as an improviser since 2003, primarily with musicians from different genres. Moreover, she has been a researcher at the G. Oprescu History of Art Institute in Bucharest since 1994 and has served as editor of the review Muzica in Bucharest since 1996. She has also written the book Developments, Ways and Trends in Romanian Music during the Second Half of the 20th Century (1997, Editura Muzicala). In addition, she served as assistant director of the International Week of New Music Festival in Bucharest in 2003 and founded the crossover festival MultiSonicFest in Bucharest in 2004 and has since served as its artistic director.
She is married to the cellist and composer Andrei Kivu.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: aki@decknet.ro
Street address: Ms. Irinel Anghel, 29 Timisoara Blvd., Bldg. A, Sc. A, Apt. 22, Bucharest 6, Romania
Telephone: + 402 1725 7856
Cellular phone: + 407 2275 5469
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS (dates not available)
STAGE: The Bloodied Lovers (incidental music, play by Chikamatsu Monzaemon); La Dissolution de la Persistance de la Mémoire (incidental music for a poetry/theatre show), shamisen (3-string lute), cello, piano, organ, Tibetan singing bowls (+ tam-tam); A View from the Bridge (incidental music, play by Arthur Miller)
ORCHESTRAL: Chimères – perspective magrittienne, cello, percussion, string orchestra; Distances, 2 trumpets, harpsichord, percussion, string orchestra; Labyrinthe II, player (shofar, khaen [mouth organ], accordion, dung-kar [Tibetan horn], tromba lontana, cello [with scordatura], zheng [Chinese zither], Tibetan singing bowls), small orchestra; Mondes Impossibles I; Music for Vasarély; The Myth of Sisiphe; Rhinoceros; La Tour de Babel
CHAMBER MUSIC: Arrêts, violin, cello, accordion, tape; La Caverne de l'Âme, cello, percussion; Divers(ion), contrabass saxophone; Divers(ion) II, contrabass saxophone, violin, viola, cello, piano; Electro-Transe, electric guitar, cello (+ sampler), live electronics; ElEnigmes I, electric guitar, tape, live electronics; ElEnigmes II, electric guitar, cello (with processing), bass guitar, tape; Entre le Ciel et l'Enfer, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, violin, cello, piano, percussion; Ephemeral Equilibrium, bassoon; Ethereal Beauty, zheng, accordion, live electronics; Everything and Nothing, viola (+ harmonica); Fascination, cello (+ khaen), zheng (+ khaen), tape; Fascination II, bass flute, cello (+ udu [Nigerian drum]), zheng (+ khaen), tape; Frontiers, bass flute, zheng (with processing), violin, piano (+ toy piano, accordion, percussion), tape; Für Elise String Quartet; Glassrope, glass harmonica, tape; Images flottantes, flute (+ deff [frame drum], khaen, shofar), accordion; Irresistible, kalimba (+ percussion), berimbau (+ percussion), tape, live electronics; Irresistible II, kalimba (with processing), ensemble (flute, clarinet, trombone, violin, 2 percussion); Miró en Miroir, flute; La Persistance de la Mémoire, violin, viola, cello, organ, accordion, 4 percussion; Le Quasi-Infini, 2 flutes, violin, viola, accordion; Le Quasi-Infini II, sho (mouth organ), 2 flutes, violin, viola, accordion; Rotations bizarres, 6 bassoons, cimbalom; Silhouettes fantomatiques, 2 celli, percussion; Silhouettes fantomatiques II, viola, cello, percussion; Silhouettes fantomatiques III, cello, double bass, percussion, tape; Sonata, cello; Sous-conversations, clarinet, trombone, violin, piano; Story of the three who dreamed, clarinet (+ bass clarinet), violin (+ viola), piano; Story of the three who dreamed II, clarinet (+ bass clarinet), cello, piano; Toys R Us, toy piano (+ toy marimba, harmonica, percussion toys), kalimba (+ sampler), live electronics; Visions provoquées par un mystère, cello, piano (+ khaen, percussion), tape
CHORAL: Assemblages (text from words in an invented language), 24 mixed voices
VOCAL: Electric Muse (vocalise), voice (with processing), piano (+ MIDI-keyboard, laptop); Timeless (vocalise), 2 voices (both with processing)
PIANO: Metablues
MULTIMEDIA: Hypnotic Visions, tape, film (by the composer)
DISCOGRAPHY
Mondes Impossibles I. Ludovic Bács/Radio Chamber Orchestra (Editura Muzicala: EM 008, 2000)
Fascination II. Pro Contemporania (Association of Romanian Women in the Arts/Editura Muzicala/Star Media Music: 007, 2003)
Labyrinthe II. Andrei Kivu, shofar, khaen, accordion, dung-kar, tromba lontana, cello, zheng, Tibetan singing bowls; Szymon Bywalec/Romanian National Radio Orchestra (Romanian Radio Broadcast Society: 118, 2004)
Le Quasi-Infini. Partita Radicale (Edition Pro Viva: ISVP 193, 2004)
Frontiers. Pro Contemporania (Pfau-Verlag: Europäische Meridiane – Neue Musik Territorien. Reportagen aus Ländern im Umbruch [2 books with 2 CDs], 2004)
Electro-Transe. Pro Contemporania (Editura Muzicala/Star Media Music: 037, 2005)
Miró en Miroir. Ion Bogdan Stefanescu, flute (Gutingi: 233, 2005)
(Last updated on September 3, 2005)
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