Prof. Niculescu studied at the National University of Music in Bucharest from 1941-46 and the Polytechnic Institute from 1946-50 before he studied composition with Mihail Andricu, harmony with Mihail Jora and piano with Muza Ghermani-Ciomac at the Academy of Music in Bucharest from 1951-57. He also attended an electronic music course with Mauricio Kagel in Munich in 1966 and Darmstadt from 1966-69.

Among his honors are many awards from the Romanian Academy and the Romanian Composers Union. He has also received an award from the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1972), the International Record Critics Award (1985) and the Herder-Preis in Vienna (1994). In 1993, he was made a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy and has been a full member since 1996.

He served as composer-in-residence at the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst in Berlin in 1971-72 and founded the International Week of New Music Festival in Bucharest in 1991.

He initially worked as a piano teacher from 1958-60 and then as a researcher at the G. Oprescu History of Art Institute in Bucharest from 1960-63. Since 1963, he has been a lecturer in analysis and composition at the Academy of Music in Bucharest, where he was made a professor in 1993. In addition, he has guest lectured in Zagreb (1969), Paris (1989), Valencia (1991), and Darmstadt (1992).

CONTACT INFORMATION

Street address: Prof. Stefan Niculescu, Str. Slt. Staniloiu No. 4, Sector 2, Bucharest, Romania

Telephone: + 402 1642 4370

SELECT LIST OF WORKS

STAGE: Cartea cu Apolodor (2 act children’s opera, libretto by Gellu Naum), 1974

ORCHESTRAL: Scènes, small orchestra (7 winds, trumpet, trombone, piano, celesta, xylophone, percussion, double bass), 1962; Symphonies for 15 Soloists, 1963; Hétérophony, 1967; Formanti, 1968; Unisonos I, 1970; Unisonos II, 1971; Ison Ia, small orchestra (14 players), 1973; Ison Ib, 1973; Symphony No. 1, 1975; Ison II, small orchestra (4 flutes, 4 French horns, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, 6 percussion), 1977; Symphony No. 2, ‘Opus Dacicum’, 1980; Synchrony II, ‘Omaggio a Enescu e Bartók’, 1981; Symphony No. 3, ‘Cantos’, 1984; Symphony No. 4, ‘Deisis’, 1995; Symphony No. 5, ‘Litanies’, 1997; Umdecimum, small orchestra (11 players), 1998; Prohodiri – A Romanian Requiem, mixed chorus, orchestra, 2000-03

CHAMBER MUSIC: Sonata, clarinet, piano, 1955; String Trio, violin, viola, cello, 1957; Inventions, clarinet, piano, 1965; Sextet, flute, oboe, English horn, 2 clarinets, alto saxophone, 1969; Triplum I, flute, cello, piano, 1971; Triplum II, clarinet, cello, piano, 1973; Echos I, violin, 1977; Synchrony I, any 2-12 players, 1979; Echos II, violin, synthesizer, 1984; Ricercare in uno, clarinet, violin, synthesizer, 1984; Duplum, cello, piano (+ synthesizer), 1984; Synchrony III, flute, oboe, bassoon, 1985; Hétérophonies for Montreux, flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn, bassoon, 1986; Synchrony IV, clarinet, piano, percussion, 1987; Incantations, 6 percussion, 1991, revised 2000 (also version as Incantations II, percussion, 2000); Sextuplum, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, violin, cello, percussion, 1993; Sequentia, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, percussion, 1994

CHORAL: Cantata I (text by Nina Cassian), children’s/female chorus, orchestra, 1959; Cantata II (text by Gellu Naum), tenor, mixed chorus, orchestra, 1960; Cantata III, ‘Rascrucee’ (text by Tudor Arghezi), mezzo-soprano, flute, 2 oboes (2^nd + English horn), 2 clarinets (2^nd + bass clarinet), 1965; Heraclit’s Aphorisms, 20 mixed voices, 1969; Invocatio, 12 mixed voices, 1989; Axion, female chorus, sopranino saxophone (+ alto saxophone, tenor saxophone), 1992; Psalm XII, 6 male voices, 1993

PIANO: Tastenspiel, 1968

(Last updated on February 16, 2003)