Violeta Dinescu

Violeta Dinescu ( born July 13, 1953 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian pianist, composer and university teacher. Her most important work is the children's opera The 35th of May from the novel by Erich Kästner, which was shown at the Hamburg State Opera in 2004 and was previously celebrated at the Vienna State Opera. Premiere was in 1986 at the National Theatre Mannheim.

Romania

Violeta Dinescu began her studies at the Conservatory of Music in 1972 Ciprian Porumbescu in Bucharest, where she completed her state exam in 1977 with honors and three diplomas in the fields of composition, piano and pedagogy. In 1978, she received a teaching position at the George Enescu Music School in Bucharest for music theory, aesthetics, counterpoint, harmony and piano. In 1980 she was included in the Romanian Composers Union. This was followed by first concert performances, radio recordings and composition awards.

Germany

Since 1982 lives and works Violeta Dinescu in the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1986, the premiere of her first opera hunger and thirst after Eugène Ionesco in Freiburg. Since 1986 she has worked as a lecturer at various German universities and has been a professor of applied composition at the University of Oldenburg since 1996 held, where it organizes colloquia with composers, 2009, inter alia, with Jean -Luc Darbellay and Graham Waterhouse. She received so far over fifty international prizes and awards for her compositions. Her work is published by the Verlag Dohr.

Major works

  • Akanua, piano, 1974
  • Sonata, violin or viola, piano, 1975
  • In my garden, text by Ana Blandiana, children's choir, 1980
  • Moon nights, words by Joseph von Eichendorff, mezzo- soprano, saxophone, drums, 1986
  • Acrostic, orchestra, 1983
  • The gyro, ballet by Edward Moerike, orchestra, 1985
  • Hunger and thirst, chamber opera, libretto by the composer after Eugène Ionesco, chamber orchestra ( 14 players ), 1985
  • Concerto, voice, orchestra, 1986
  • Quatrain, text by François Villon, female voice, 1986
  • Dona nobis pacem, mezzo-soprano, cello ( percussion ), 1987
  • Taboo film music to a silent film by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, chamber orchestra, 1988
  • ICHTHYS, violin, cello, piano, 1991
  • The 35 May children's opera, libretto by Ulrike Wendt and Florian Zwipf by Erich Kästner, 3 Soloists, 8 -voice choir, children's choir, orchestra, 1986
  • Eréndira, chamber opera, libretto by the composer after Gabriel García Márquez, seven soloists, chamber orchestra, 1992
  • Pentecost oratorio, 5 Soloists, Mixed Choir, Chamber Orchestra, 1993
  • Schachnovelle, chamber opera, libretto by the composer after Stefan Zweig, 3 soloists, chamber ensemble, 1994
  • L' ORA X, orchestra, 1995
  • Self- Reflections I / II, Piano, Electronics, 1996-97
  • Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane ballet, orchestra, 1998
  • Vortex - Clouds I, II and III, Chamber Orchestra, 1998
  • Light fraction, accordion, 2001
  • Ruga, clarinet, double bass, accordion, 2001
  • Heart crack, opera, in a nutshell, libretto by the composer after Homer, Ionesco and Márquez, female voice and percussion, 2005
  • Battlefield of Marathon, Piano, commissioned work for piano fever, Berlin, initiated by the eponymous painting by Carl Rottmann, Old National Gallery, Berlin; UA: June 25, 2011 in the foyer of the Gemäldegalerie Berlin
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