Ms. Nuteanu studied piano with Daniela Ioan and Gabriela Enasescu at the George Enescu High School from 1978-86. She then studied composition with Dan Constantinescu at the National University of Music in Bucharest from 1986-90 and had post-graduate studies at the Academy of Music in Bucharest in 1990-91. She attended composition courses in Poland in 1991 and Darmstadt in 1992 and studied with Franco Donatoni at the Accademia Chigiana in 1993. In 2001, she earned her PhD in musicology at the National University of Music in Bucharest.

Among her competition honors are a mention in Targu Mures (1988), Third Prize in Cluj-Napoca (1989, for Quintet) and First Prize in Iasi (1989, for Three Miniatures). She has earned five honors in Bucharest (First Prize, 1993, for Song; First Prize, 1994, for Children’s Orchestra; mention, 1995, for The Shadow of the Night; Third Prize, 1997, for Elegia; and mention, 1997, for Scherzo).

From 1990-94, she was active as a conductor with the Bulgarian Cultural Association. As a pianist, she has played with the chorus Eutherpe from the Elena Cuza High School in Bucharest since 1990 and with the chorus Fortis (which she co-founded) since 1994. From 1993-96, she was a pianist with the chorus Gloria Cantus.

From 1990-95, she was a professor of music at the Elena Cuza High School and since 1995, has taught at the National University of Music in Bucharest, where she has been an associate professor since 1997.

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