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Teodoreanu, Nicolae (b. June 26, 1962, Bucharest). Romanian composer of mostly orchestral, chamber and vocal works that have been performed throughout Europe; he is also active as an ethnomusicologist.

Mr. Teodoreanu studied with Stefan Niculescu, Aurel Stroe and Anatol Vieru at the National University of Music in Bucharest, where he earned his BA in composition in 1986. He also studied with Paul-Heinz Dittrich, York Höller, Dieter Schnebel, and Walter Zimmermann at the Musikhochschule Berlin from 1994-96, on a scholarship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, and studied electroacoustic music with Dieter Kaufmann at the Universität Wien in 1996-97, on the Herder-Stipendium. He earned his PhD at the Academy of Music in Cluj-Napoca in 2002, with a dissertation entitled Intonation Systems in Romanian Folklore.

Among his honors are a mention in the Carl Maria von Weber competition (1991, for String Quartet) and a residency in Dilsberg (1999), on a scholarship from the Kulturstiftung Rhein-Neckar-Kreis.

As an ethnomusicologist, he has written articles for numerous Romanian publications and has been active as a researcher at the Constantin Brailoiu Institute of Ethnography and Folklore in Bucharest since 1990. He co-founded the Romanian Society of Ethnomusicology in 1996, which is the Romanian section of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM). In addition, he worked on ethnomusicological research at the New Europe College in Bucharest from 1999-2002, on a scholarship.

He has taught as an associate professor of computer music, ethnomusicology and musical forms and analyses at both the National University of Music in Bucharest and the Academy of Music in Brasov since 1990.

CONTACT INFORMATION

E-mail address: nteo@easynet.ro

Street address: Mr. Nicolae Teodoreanu, Calea Dorobanti 111-131, Bldg. 9B, Sc. F, Apt. 206, 71223 Bucharest, Romania

Telephone: + 402 1230 3113

COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS

STAGE: Corabia (mini-chamber opera, libretto by the composer, after the Bible, Gert Kaiser, Achim von Arnim, Clemens Brentano), 4/8/12 mixed voices, trombone, tuba, violin, cello, 1996 (also concert version)

ORCHESTRAL: Poem, large orchestra, 1989; Concerto, viola, orchestra, 1991-92; Vârstele timpului, large orchestra, 1993; Concerto, violin, string orchestra, 1995

CHAMBER MUSIC: String Quartet, 1989; Recitativo secco e basso continuo, trumpet, double bass, 1995; Heterophony, 3 alto recorders, 1995; Strigare de biruinta, violin, 1999

CHORAL: Ceremonial (texts from the Bible, folk texts), mixed chorus, 1994

VOCAL: Noaptea de cremene (cantata, text by Vasile Voiculescu), mezzo-soprano, small orchestra, 1986; Lacrima si Raza (text by Lucian Blaga), mezzo-soprano, piano, 1988; Anastasia (text by Daniel Turcea), mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet, cello, piano, percussion, 1992; Strigare (text from Psalm 101), 8 mixed voices, 1995; Corabia (mini-chamber opera), 4/8/12 mixed voices, trombone, tuba, violin, cello, 1996 (concert version of stage work); Sicut in caelo et in terra (text from the Bible), 8 mixed voices, percussion, 1999; Cantarea noptii (text by Daniel Turcea), soprano, flute, guitar, 2002

ELECTROACOUSTIC: Prima, tape, 1996, revised 2002; The Word, tape, 1998

(Last updated on August 3, 2004)


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