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ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Professor Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea

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Professor Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea, PhD, Habil.

Composer, concert pianist

Current Academic positions:

Professor, National University of Music Bucharest, Romania

Adjunct Associate Professor (Research), Sir Zelman Cowen

School of Music, Monash University

Contact:

livia.teodorescu-ciocanea@monash.edu

Research Areas:

• Timbre, Spectrum, advanced techniques for instruments

(which I call hypertimbralism), always in connection with

strong and articulate form and structure.

• Orchestral composite timbre evaluation, considering the

changing position of the spectral centroid (midpoint of the

spectral energy) in connection with intensity levels.

• Spectral analysis, spectral listening types (holistic

listening and analytical listening), evaluation of tonalness,

harmonicity, inharmonicity.

• Byzantine music.

• operatic music, both classical and modern.

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BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC OVERVIEW

LIST OF PUBLISHED WORKS

COMPLETE LIST OF COMPOSITIONS BY GENRE

LIST OF PUBLISHED SCORES

LIST OF COMMERCIALLY-RELEASED CDs

LIST OF SELECTED MAJOR PERFORMANCES

RECENT MEDIA BROADCASTING

LIST OF COMPOSITION WORKS PERFORMED BY TAMARA SMOLYAR AND

OTHER AUSTRALIAN PERFORMERS

LIST OF OTHER WORLD PREMIERES AND PERFORMANCES

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Biography

Music has unlimited power. Composing music is to share your imagination, feelings and

intelligence. The result should be more than you first imagined and beyond your own comprehension. The intangible mystery of your music will grow with every listener’s

sensitivity, imagination and expectations.

Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea

Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea is a Romanian composer and concert pianist, who currently holds a

full Professorship at the National University of Music Bucharest (since 2015), where she teaches

composition, stylistics and poetics, forms and music analysis. Her numerous compositions and

recordings are internationally acclaimed for their powerful vision, emotional impact and

remarkable timbral refinements. Several musicological works (books and book chapters) have

been published nationally while some of her referred articles have been accepted into leading

international musicological journals. She won an Endeavour Award – Postdoctoral Research

Fellowship (2008) - sponsored by the Australian Government and carried out at Monash

University. Her project title was: East and West junction at the fundamental level of timbre. In

2017 she has been appointed as an Adjunct Associate Professor (Research) at the Sir Zelman

Cowen School of Music, Monash University.

Teodorescu-Ciocănea’s present research areas focus on Spectralism, Timbre (Hypertimbralism),

Composition strategies based on Timbre, Perception of Timbre, Spectral listening, Orchestral

sound evaluation based on the spectral centroid position on the frequencies axis, Form and

Process, Wave-particle duality of the Sound mental representation, “Golden age” of Romanian

composers (Ștefan Niculescu and Anatol Vieru), Byzantine music, and the interconnected styles in

contemporary music (in relation to architecture, poetry, literature and visual arts).

Livia Teodorescu has established a long and fruitful collaboration with members of Monash

University since 2001, writing numerous composition works for pianist Tamara Smolyar and

engaging in musicological writings with dr. Joel Crotty.

On several occasions, other staff members or collaborators of the Monash University joined the

performance of Teodorescu’s chamber music, such as violinist Elisabeth Sellars, clarinetist David

Griffiths and violinist Fintan Murphy, horn player Roman Ponomariov, sopranos Merlyn Quaife

and Judith Dodsworth, pianist Len Vorster and Valencia Quartet: Lizzy Welsh (violin I), Kyla

Matsuura-Miller (violin II), Clare Gorton (viola), Luke Severn (cello).

Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea studied composition at the National University of Music, Bucharest

with Myriam Marbe (Bachelor), Anatol Vieru and Octavian Nemescu (doctoral studies National

University of Music Bucharest) and Margaret Lucy Wilkins (doctoral studies University of

Huddersfield UK). She studied piano with Ana Pitiș (private lessons) and Ioana Minei at the

National University of Music Bucharest and attended piano master classes, Bartók Seminar in

Hungary (Szombathely) offered by Zoltan Kocsis and Imre Rohmann (1985).

She has written over 75 composition works in most of the musical genres, performed worldwide:

the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Ukraine, Moldavia

Republic, Estonia, Japan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Tasmania, Australia and the USA. Her

symphonic and theatrical works have been performed primarily in Romania by major Bucharest-

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based orchestras, such as the George Enescu Philharmonic, National Opera Bucharest, Radio

National Orchestra, and the Radio Chamber Orchestra, but also by other state orchestras within the

country and abroad. Over the years she has received several state and private commissions, and

has been honoured with numerous awards, such as the Romanian Composers’ Union Award (2001,

2003, 2006, 2009, 2016) and the Romanian Academy Award G. Enescu (2006). In 2008 the

Romanian Presidency has awarded her the title: Knight of the National Order Cultural Merit

(2008). Her scores have been published by Editura muzicală (Romania), ArsPublica, (Italy) and

Hoeflich (Germany). Commercial recordings of her music have featured on Toccata Classics

(United Kingdom) and Move Records (Australia), and in Romania through Electrecord, Casa

Radio, Star Media Music and Eurostar.

Musicologist Ruxandra Arzoiu states in her Grove Music online entry on Teodorescu-Ciocănea

that the composer’s music “explores spectralism, neo-impressionism and postmodernism to a

powerful lyric and dramatic effect. Her interest in timbre and spectralism appears straightforward

in most of her orchestral works yet preserving a powerful and indestructible structure. She

manages to delineate form and structure through magic timbral alchemy, technique that she calls

hypertimbralism. This original aesthetic, based on a philosophy of timbre where timbral layers are

interconnected as a hypertext, is to be found in its most obvious expression in the composer’s

concerti: Déesses de l’Air (2012) for solo flute and Flute Orchestra (commissioned and played by

the famous French flutist Pierre Yves-Artaud and Orchestre de Flutes Français, premiered in 2012

in Paris), Rite for Enchanting the Air (1999) (premiered by Pierre-Yves Artaud with the University

of Huddersfield Orchestra conducted by Barrie Webb in 2000 and in Romania in 2002 with the

National Radio Orchestra conducted by British conductor Alan Tongue) and D’Amore (1997) – Oboe Concerto performed in 2000 by Eugen Glăvan with the George Enescu Philharmonic

conducted by Cristian Mandeal.

More recent hyperspectral works include Mysterium tremendum (2016) for mezzo-soprano and

orchestra (premiered by mezzo-soprano Antonela Bârnat and the String Quartet No. 2 Infloribus.

Drama and lyricism in a modern vision are found in works such as Archimedes Symphony

(2011/rev. 2017) performed by the National Radio Orchestra in 2011 and by the George Enescu

Philharmonic in 2017, both conducted by Valentin Doni; Lebenskraft – Piano Concerto No. 2,

dedicated to Australian pianist Tamara Smolyar (world premiere in 2008 with Smolyar and the

Chamber Radio Orchestra in Bucharest; the revised version was performed by the composer in

2011 with the George Enescu Philharmonic conducted by Paul Nadler (Metropolitan Opera New

York, USA) at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest.

Livia Teodorescu’s symphonic works aim for monumentality in terms of drama, form and

orchestration. Scored for full size orchestra and organ, her Archimedes Symphony (2011, rev.

2017) is a 40-minute long epic work, with non-interrupted four parts that are metaphorically

imagined as a square inscribed in a circle. The circle is the “whole” that is “touched” by adjacent

points of contact between each two sides of the square, that is two consecutive parts. All the parts

of the symphony are connected through the same sound (high B, each time differently

orchestrated), which represents the contact point of the circumscribed square with the circle.

Her new vocal-symphonic work (2018), Poppy Fields is a 5-part oratorio (45’) for soloists (mezzo-

soprano, tenor and baritone) choir and orchestra, dedicated to the memory of those who fell in the

First World War. The scenario proposes a framework for reflection on historical moments related

to the Great War in Europe and Romania. The title of the work refers to the symbolic meaning that

the poppies have acquired in connection with the First World War due to the famous poem "In

Flanders Fields" written by Major John McCrae, military doctor and Canadian artillery

commander.

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Her full-length theatrical work Le Rouge et le Noir (three-act ballet based on Stendhal, 94 minutes)

was commissioned and produced by the Romanian National Opera Bucharest in 2000, was formed

a significant part of the repertoire for the next eight years. It “gained favour with the general

audience via a modernism rooted in the classical style” (Grove Music Online). The composer

asked for full orchestra, male choir and two opera singers (countertenor and soprano). In 2015

Livia Teodorescu completed her three-act opera The Lady with the dog after Chekhov (2 hours, 36

minutes) commissioned by the Romanian Composers and Musicologists Union. This major work

is scored for full orchestra, choir and six soloists.

While mindful of the choral composition tradition, Teodorescu-Ciocănea also instils in her writing

a spectral dimension. Her approach results in powerful contrasts of density and dynamics of the

choral fabric: from hieratic monodic lines to densely chromatised sound blocks presented iso-

rhythmically, polyphonically or heterophonically. One could acknowledge these stylistic features

in works such as Oratio Sanctae Brigittae (2002) for SATB unaccompanied choir (published by

ArsPublica, Italy, in 2016); Prunc luminous (Luminous Child) (2005), with lyrics by Vasile

Voiculescu, for SATB unaccompanied choir; Vecernia (Vespers) (2015), for baritone solo

and SATB unaccompanied choir, (Prologue from the opera The Lady with the Dog after Chekhov

in Russian), and Prayer of Queen Marie for the Dead (2019) for mezzo-soprano solo, violin solo,

organ and SATB choir version, (English translation by John McCaughey). All these works have

been performed over the years by the Choir of the Astra Chamber Music Society in Melbourne,

Australia, conducted by John McCaughey in various concerts as world or Australian premieres or

on tours in Italy and Romania. While Oratio Sanctae Brigittae and Prunc luminous were given

their premiere performances by the George Enescu Philharmonic Choir, conductor Iosif Ion

Prunner.

Livia Teodorescu has written numerous works for solo piano, duet or piano duo. Much of her most

recent piano music has been inspired by her collaboration with Australian pianist Tamara Smolyar,

dating back to 2001. Since then, Smolyar has commissioned and premiered a number of the

composer's piano works in Melbourne and at other venues around the world such as: Endeavour

Bells (2008), Calypso (2013), Enceladus (2016), Briseis (2016), Aphrodite (2018), Berenice (2019

) and Viva Beethoven (2020). In 2017, Teodorescu composed a two piano piece entitled Magna Mater – Cybele, premiered by the composer and Tamara Smolyar at the Romanian Athenaeum,

Bucharest, in the same year. In 2019, Magna Mater – Cybele was selected and performed during

the World Music Days Festival organized by the International Society of Contemporary Music –

at the Tallinn Philharmonic hall, Estonia.

Piano music written between 1986-2013 for piano solo, piano duet and piano duo performed by

Smolyar (solo works) and the composer was released in 2019 through Toccata Classics

(TOCC0488). https://d2vhizysjb6bpn.cloudfront.net/TOCC0448DIGIBKLT.pdf

Trio combinations of various instrumental formations have been a focus of her chamber music

output, the most recent being: Moebius Loop (2019) for Flute, Clarinet and Piano,

Namagiri (2018) for French Horn, Violin and Piano; Entanglement (2019) for French Horn,

Trombone and Viola.

Songs form a significant part of Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea’s oeuvre. Among her most often

performed songs are: Autumn Gospels (2002) – lyrics by Nichita Stănescu; Chanson

d'automne (2004) – lyrics by Paul Verlaine, and S'amor non è (2007) – lyrics

by Petrarch, Sonneto no. 132.

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As a concert pianist she has performed many classical and modern works of the solo and duo piano

repertoire and has accompanied numerous vocal and instrumental recitals. She has played solo

piano recitals (Chopin, Debussy, Schubert, Beethoven, Liszt, etc.) in Romania, Italy, France, and

piano concerti with some Romanian Philharmonic (Bucharest, Galați, Timișoara, Bacău). She

played for the first time in Romania two major works of Messiaen: Visions de l’Amen for 2 pianos

(with Luminița Berariu) and the piano solo part of the Turangalîla Symphony with the George

Enescu Philharmonic lead by the French conductor Alain Pâris (2004). She gave piano and

chamber music masterclasses at Monash University Melbourne Australia in 2008.

Teodorescu-Ciocănea’s CD, Frédéric Chopin (Electrecord, 2012) contains two Nocturnes, seven

Waltzes and the four Ballades, recorded live at the Romanian Athenaeum on the occasion of the

international festival Chopin 200 organised by the Polish Institute in Bucharest. Apart from her

activity as a soloist or chamber music pianist, she worked for the Bucharest National Opera as

maestro accompanist and vocal coach between 1985-2001.

Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea has presented seminars about her compositions and conferences with

her musicological works in the United Kingdom (1996, 1999), Norway (2005), USA (2003, 2005,

2006) and Australia (2008). She has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Illinois Urbana-

Champaign, USA (2006), Oslo Academy of Music (2005) and Monash University Australia

(2008).

As a musicologist, she has published three books: Musical Timbre - Composition Strategies

(Editura muzicală, 2004); Treatise of musical Forms and analysis (Editura Muzicală, 2005 and

Grafoart 2014); Streams of thought in the music of the 20th and 21st centuries (Editura Muzicală,

2015). She co-authored with Dr Joel Crotty two book-chapters (Editura Muzicală 2015, 2016);

while her spectral research has appeared in Contemporary Music Review (22/1-2, 2003) and with

Dr Joel Crotty in Journal of the International Society for Orthodox Church Music (1, 2014) and

also with Crotty on Anatol Vieru’s theories and musical outcomes in Perspectives of New Music

(to be published). Other writings include articles and proceedings of the George Enescu International Musicology Symposium (2009, 2011).

Notes by dr. Joel Crotty

"Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea is a composer of powerful vision and imagination. Her compositional technique presents a

significant advance on the overtone school, by richer and more fluid application… Her achievement is close to the

work of a number of East European women composers, such as Gubaidulina".

Nigel Osborne (British composer)

"Livia Teodorescu's music has a natural flow and engages the listener's attention throughout. …The result is music of

sensitivity, beauty, intelligence and power"

Margaret Lucy Wilkins (British composer)

Reviews (on Toccata Classics CD – Piano music by Livia Teodorescu-Ciocanea.

Artists: Tamara Smolyar and Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea)

“The piano, across all these pieces, speaks, in substantial part, in melodic, impressionistic terms. There is also a

disruptive clangourous element that is both elementary disruptive and enigmatically complementary. …This composer’s

music for piano is like a swiftly alternating rippling between stampede through a china shop and a breathlessly delicate

examination of the finest Meissen and Satsuma. It flickers between violence and enamoured appreciation.”

Rob Barnett – MusicWeb International (UK)

“No missing, either, the opening of …Nocturniana, a piece originally written in 2010 and heard here in a version for two

pianos created in 2013… Possibly the greatest compliment is that the magic of the original is maintained, harmonically

complemented and expanded; the use of trills as an encrustation of the original’s coda is genius, and so beautifully

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delivered here by the two ladies. There is another association at work here, suggested to the composer by the original

Chopin, a Romanian poem by Eminescu, “Sleeping Birds”. Miraculous.

… one has to praise both pianists here for the strength and power of their vision and also for their technical security;

throughout, one feels in the safest of hands. This well-recorded disc was a more than a pleasant surprise. Strong

performances of music by a composer of the highest integrity.

(Colin Clarke – Fanfare Magazine (USA)

“… there’s considerable variety here, from the alternately crystalline or deeply rumbling, even thunderous, spectrally-

determined Endeavor Bells, to the Ragtime comedy of the Sonatina buffa (and a second, playful Ragtime appearance in

the concerto’s concluding Con spirito); from Nocturniana’s hallucinatory Chopinesque fantasy, for which Teodorescu-

Ciocǎnea plumbed the velvety depths of Chopin’s Nocturne in D♭ to retrieve pearls of atmospheric ornament with which

to drape its undulating fabric, to the cheerful, even explosive, extroversion of the concerto’s outer movements

and Calypso’s watery cascades; from the Sonatina for Solo Piano’s driving Con moto to the concerto’s leisurely, time-

expanding, quasi-modal Adagio.”

Robert Schulslaper – Fanfare Magazine (USA)

ACADEMIC OVERVIEW

EDUCATION:

• 2018 - HABILITATION

• 1996-2001 – DOCTORAT ÎN MUZICĂ (musicology and composition) Magna cum laude,

National University of Music Bucharest in collaboration with University of Huddersfield, UK.

Title of the thesis: Timbre and its connections with Musical Form and Syntax.

• 1977-1981 DIPLOMA DE LICENȚĂ – composition – Conservatorul C. Porumbescu Bucharest

(today National University of Music Bucharest).

• 1965-1977 BACALAUREAT - Music Lyceum – piano - Galatzi, Romania.

EMPLOYMENT:

• 2015-present: Professor PhD, National University of Music

Bucharest

• 2004-2015: Associate Professor PhD, National University of

Music Bucharest

• 1997-2004: Lecturer, UNMB

• 1995-1997 Assistant Professor, UNMB

• 1985-2001 – pianist (vocal coach and accompanist) for the

National Opera of Bucharest

HONORARY APPOINTMENT: Adjunct Associate Professor (Research) within the Sir Zelman

Cowen School of Music, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

SCHOLARSHIPS:

• 2005 - Erasmus Academic exchange European Program at Oslo Academy of Music,

Norway

• 1998-1999 - Ministry of Education and Research – Romanian Government Grant/ University of

Huddersfield, UK - doctoral studies (May-August 1999)

• 1997-1998 - Ministry of Education and Research – Romanian Government Grant/ University of Huddersfield, UK - doctoral studies (March-September 1998)

• 1996 - Tempus Program for academic mobility at the University of Huddersfield

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• 1985 – Grant from the Ministry of Culture, Bartók Seminar, Szombathelly Hungary, piano

master classes with Zoltan Kocsis and Imre Rohmann.

RESEARCH GRANT:

• 2008, ARC Endeavour Award– Postdoctoral research fellowship at Monash University,

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, sponsored by the Australian Government (4 months). Title of

the project: East and West junction at the fundamental level of Timbre. Results: 2 composition

works and one musicological article.

Ongoing research collaboration with Monash University Music School Conservatorium

Member of the Endeavour Awards Alumni Network) since 2009.

AWARDS:

Composition Awards

• 2016 - Prize of the Romanian Composers and Musicologists Union for Mysterium tremendum II

– cantata for mezzo soprano and orchestra

• 2009 - Prize of the Romanian Composers and Musicologists Union for vocal music (Chanson

d’autumne – lyrics by Verlaine and S’amor non è…lyrics by Petrarca)

• 2009 - Endeavour Awards Certificate (Research Fellowship)– signed by the Deputy

Prime Minister, Australian Government.

• 2008 - The National Cultural Merit Order (Knight grade)

• 2006 - Romanian Academy Award, G. Enesco’s Prize for composition

• 2006 - Prize of the Romanian Composers and Musicologists Union for "Romulus and Remus"

Trio for two violins and piano; book: "Treatise of musical Forms and Analysis"

• 2004 - Prize of the Romanian Composers and Musicologists Union for "Orationes aliquot

Sanctae Brigittae" sacred choral music

• 2001 - Prize of the Romanian Composers and Musicologists Union for Le Rouge et le Noir –

three act ballet

INVITED LECTURES:

• 2008 - “SPECTRALISM AND TONALNESS” –Research Seminar for staff and

postgraduate students, Monash University, 15 September 2008, Burchill Rooms,

Melbourne, AUSTRALIA.

• 2008 - “SPECTRALISM IN RELATION TO MY COMPOSITIONAL WORK” –

Undegraduate Composers’ Seminar, Monash University, Australia, 15 august, 2008.

• 2007 - “THE COMPLEXITY OF THE STRUCTURAL LEVELS IN ENESCO’S

MUSICAL LANGUAGE”, G. Enescu International Musicology Symposium,

Bucharest.

• 2006 - "CONTEMPORARY MUSIC AND ROMANIAN CULTURAL ENHERITANCE", Composers Forum, Illinois University Urbana Champagn, USA. 25

April, 2006.

• 2005 "CONTEMPORARY MUSIC TECHNIQUES AND CULTURAL HERITAGE",

Composers Forum, Academy of music Oslo, NORVEGIA, Erasmus mobility

Program. 12 May, 2005.

• 2005 "THE INFLUENCE OF G. ENESCU ON ROMANIAN CONTEMPORARY

MUSIC", Central College of Pella / IOWA / USA. 15 March 2015.

• 2005 "PRECONCERT LECTURE ABOUT MY WORKS" – Central College Pella –

IOWA, USA, 16 March 2005.

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• 2003 "TIMBRE RELATED TO FORM AND SYNTAX IN MY WORKS",

Piano/Ballet presentations, about the ballet Le Rouge et le Noir after Stendhal, Central

College of Pella / IOWA – USA, 7 March 2003.

• 1999 "MUSICAL TIMBRE AS INFLUENTIAL FIELD FOR COMPOSITION" –

Music Research Forum, University of Huddersfield UK, 24 May 1999,

• 1996 "LIVIA TEODORESCU - CIOCĂNEA, VISITING ROMANIAN COMPOSER,

WILL DISCUSS HER MUSIC" –Composer's Forum, University of Huddersfield,

UK., 3 December 1996.

Commissioned Composition Works (Selection):

I have written works commissioned by international artists, such as:

• Pierre-Yves Artaud (flute, France),

• Daniel Kientzy (saxophone, France),

• Tamara Smolyar (piano, Australia).

Selected State and other institutional commissions (Grants)

• POPPY FIELDS (Câmpuri de maci) – Oratorio in 5 parts for mezzo soprano, tenor and

baritone, choir and full orchestra. Commisioned by the Ministery of Culture in Romania,

2018.

• THE LADY WITH THE DOG – 3 act opera, libretto Iuliana Ciocănea-Teodorescu based

on A. P. Cekhov, commissioned by the Romanian Composers and Musicologists Union

(UCMR), 2h 36 min., 2012-2015.

• PREGHIERA ECUMENICA DI PAPA GIOVANNI PAOLO II - for soloists orchestra,

14’ Commissioned by the UCMR and the Ministry of Culture for the International New

Music Festival Bucharest, May 23, 2007

• MYSTERIUM TREMENDUM - for voice and instrumental ensemble, commissioned by

the Ministry of Culture, European Project: Sibiu European Cultural Capital, 19’ May 20,

2007 Sibiu Philharmonic.

• NOCTURNIANA - fantasy for three pianos on Chopin Nocturne op.27 No. 2 in D flat

major commissioned by the Polish Cultural Institute in Bucharest for the International

Festival Chopin 200.

• TOAMNA; INTOMNARE-N LIED, 2 lieds on poems by Nicolae Coman, compulsory

pieces for the Ionel Perlea International Lied Competition 2012.

• DÉESSES DE L’AIR – Concerto for Flute and 24 Flutes Orchestra – commissioned by

Pierre-Yves Artaud, president of OFF (Orchestre de Flutes de France), premiéred in

Paris, 2012.

Member of Composition competitions juries:

Composition Competition: Paul Constantinescu

Composition Competition: Ştefan Niculescu

Composition Competition: Mihail Jora

Societies and Organisations

Romanian Composers and Musicologists Union – member

Romanian Composers and Musicologists Union of the Symphonic committee (2006-2010)

I.S.C.M. - Romanian branch – member of the Executive committee (2017-2019)

CCSAA - Research Centre and artistic activities of the National University of Music - founding

member

Member of SACEM - France

Member of the Endeavour Awards Alumni Network (since 2009)

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Member of the National Ordre Cultural Merit - Knight grade (since 2008)

Academic profile

1. Google Academic 55 results

2. Hirsch Index (h-index) 2

3. Referencies: 21 citations in journals, PhD thesis and master disertations (Google

Academic profile)

4. ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1759-6149

Referencies:

5. Research Gate

https://www.researchgate.net/

6. Academia.edu

https://www.academia.edu/

7. Semantic Scholar

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Timbre-versus-spectralism-Teodorescu-

Ciocanea/1714b71e979a0178c6f3444d09a5bf9ce052fbb4

8. Fanfare Magazine Archive (USA)

http://fanfarearchive.com/ntbm/articles/teodorescu-ciocanea-clarke.html

9. National Library of Australia

http://fanfarearchive.com/ntbm/articles/teodorescu-ciocanea-clarke.html

10. Oxford Music Online – Grove Music Online

https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/

11. Scopus

https://www.scopus.com/home.uri

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LIST OF PUBLISHED WORKS

Books and book-chapters

1. Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea, Joel Crotty, 2019 - Chapter: O examinare spectrală a

arhetipului cântării bizantine, book ”Muzica în spațiul liturgic. Interferențe culturale”

Editors: Alexandru Ioniță și Teresa Leonhard; Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2019, ISBN 978-

606-37-0647-9.

2. Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea, Joel Crotty, 2016, Chapter: ’’Simfonia nr. 5 de Anatol Vieru: o

estetică muzicală eminesciană și numerele prime’’ book: Repere în muzica românească: Anatol Vieru, Cristina Rădulescu-Pașcu, Dorel Pașcu Rădulescu, Editor: Olguța Lupu,

Editura Muzicală – Muzeul Național George Enescu, București 2016, ISMN 979-0-707656-

98-3, ISBN 978-973-42-0966-8.

3. Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea, Joel Crotty, 2015, Chapter: ’’Ştefan Niculescu: modernism târziu şi matricea compoziţională extinsă’’ book: Ştefan Niculescu: portret în eterofonie.

Editors: Olguța Lupu and Florinela Popa. Editura Muzicală, București, 2015. ISMN 979-0-

707656, ISBN 978-973-42-0892-0.

4. Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea, 2015, book: Curente de gândire muzicală în secolele XX şi XXI (Streams of thought in modern and contemporary music) – 2015, Editura Muzicală, București,

ISMN 979-0-707656, ISBN 978-973-42-0897-5

5. Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea, 2005, book: Tratat de Forme şi Analize muzicale* – 2005,

Editura Muzicală Bucureşti, ISBN 973-42-0396-7, 335 pages, sponsored by the National

Education Ministry

Reviewers: prof. univ. dr. Dan Voiculescu and prof. univ. dr. Octavian Nemescu

*This book was awarded the Union of Composers and Musicologists of Romania, 2006.

Second edition: Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea, 2014, Tratat de Forme şi Analize muzicale,

Editura GRAFOART, ISBN 978-606-8486-70-3

6. Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea, 2004, book: Timbrul muzical –Strategii de compoziţie, 2004,

Editura Muzicală, Bucureşti, ISBN 973-42-0344-4, 188 pages.

Articles

7. Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea, Joel Crotty, 2020, Time metaphor and prime numnbers in

Anatol Vieru’s Symphony no. 5, in print, Perspectives of New Music, USA.

8. Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea, 2003, Timbre versus Spectralism, Contemporary Music Review,

Vol.22, Nos.1+2, pp. 87-104, Routledge - Taylor & Francis Ltd, London, New York - ISSN

Print 0749-4467, ISSN online1477-2256, (Editor: Christopher Fox, UK); index SCOPUS and

Google Scholar (15 among 55 citations on Google Scholar).

9. Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea, Joel Crotty, 2014, Spectral examination of Byzantine Chant

Archetype* –Journal of the International Society for Orthodox Church Music. Finland (online

peer-reviewed journal), ISSN 2342-125, vol.1, 1-19.

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*This article is the output of the research Postoctoral Fellowship ARC Endeavour Award carried at Monash University in 2009.

10. Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea, 2011, Structures of Ison type in Enesco’s music – in „George

Enescu International Musicology Symposium”, pp. 265-283, Editura muzicală, Bucharest

(CNCSIS recognised), ISSN 2247-7256

11. Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea, 2009, The complexity of the structural levels in Enesco’s musical language- in ‚George Enescu International Musicology Symposium”, pp. 147-159, Editura

muzicala, Bucharest (CNCSIS recognized), ISSN 2066-7256.

COMPLETE LIST OF COMPOSITIONS BY GENRE

Symphonic works:

1. 2011, revised 2017 – ARCHIMEDES SYMPHONY – 4 part Symphony for full orchestra and

organ:1. The Assault of Syracusa; 2. Noli tangere circulos meos; 3. The burning mirrors of

Archimedes; 4. Elegia – Archimedes’ tomb (The Sphere and the Cylinder). 40’

2. 2007 - PREGHIERA ECUMENICA di Papa Giovanni Paolo II - for soloists orchestra or chamber

orchestra. 15’

3. 2007 – LE ROUGE ET LE NOIR – 1st Ballet Suite, 18’

Concerti:

4. 2012 - DÉESSES de L’AIR – Concerto for Flute(s) and Flutes Orchestra (OFF), 20’

5. 2008 – LEBENSKRAFT– Piano concerto nr.2, 32’; 2011 revised version, 26’; 2013 two piano

arrangement.

6. 1998 - RITE FOR ENCHANTING THE AIR – Flute(s) Concerto, 29',

7. 1996 /1997 - D'AMORE - Concerto for Oboe, 20',

8. 1989 – 1st CONCERTO for PIANOFORTE and ORCHESTRA nr. 1, 20'

9. 2019 - CONCERTINO BUFFO – for piano solo and orchestra 15’

Vocal Symphonic works:

10. 2018 – POPPY FIELDS (CÂMPURI DE MACI) – Oratorio for mezzo soprano, tenor, baritone,

choir and full orchestra, 45’

11. 2016 – MYSTERIUM TREMENDUM II – cantata for mezzosoprano and orchestra, 19’

12. 1992 / revised in 1996 - THE ANNUNCIATION - Cantata for bass, soprano, string orchestra and 4

horns, 22'

Opera, Ballet, Theatre music:

13. 2012-2015 –THE LADY WITH THE DOG (DOAMNA CU CĂŢELUL), 3 act opera, libretto

Iuliana Ciocănea-Teodorescu after A. P. Chekhov, 156 min.

14. 1999 – 2000 - Le ROUGE et le NOIR - (The Red and the Black) – 3 act BALLET after Stendhal,

93',

15. 1988 – Theater music: The MISANTHROPE by Mollière, commissioned by the National

Theatre L.S. Bulandra (director Valeriu Moisescu)

16. 1987 – Theater music: TARTUFFE – by Mollière, commissioned by Cassandra Studio.

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Songs and vocal-instrumental works:

17. 2017 – L’ISOLEMENT – song/poem for two sopranos and piano four hands, lyrics by Lamartine

18. 2011 – INTOMNARE-N LIED – lied, poem by Nicolae Coman

19. 2009 – TOAMNA – lied, poem by Nicolae Coman.

20. 2007 - S'AMOR NON È... lied for voice and piano, on Petrarca Sonetto 132

21. 2004 - CHANSON D”AUTOMNE – lied, poem by Verlaine

22. 2002 – AUTOMN Lied, poem by Rainer Maria Rilke

23. 2002 – AUTOMN GOSPELS – lied, poem by Nichita Stănescu

24. 2002 - NEVER AUTOMN… lied, poem by Tudor Arghezi

25. 1996 - CARAION - 3 LIEDS for Mezzo, Clarinet and Piano, 12'

26. 1989 - 3 LIEDS for mezzo-soprano and piano - lyrics by Mihai Eminescu, 9'

27. 1987 - CONTEMPLATION OF THE SONG - Chamber Concerto for mezzo-

soprano and ensemble - lyrics by Nichita Stãnescu, 14'

Choral works:

28. PRAYER OF QUEEN MARY FOR THE DEAD – for mezzo-soprano, violin, organ and

choir, 7’ 29. 2015: VESPERS (VECERNIE) for baritone and mixt choir

30. 2005 - PRUNC LUMINOS (Luminous child)– mixt choir a cappella, lyrics by Vasile Voiculescu

31. 2002 - ORATIO SANCTAE BRIGITTAE - mixt choir

32. 1991 - METAVALS - Cantata for 2 pianos and children choir

33. 1989 - BERCEUSE - Choir a cappella - lyrics by Iulia Hașdeu

34. 1989 - LISETTE - Choir a cappella - lyrics by Iulia Hașdeu

35. 1985 - VISELE COPILĂRIEI - 12', Cantata for children choir and instrumental ensemble, lyrics

by Valentin Petculescu

36. 1984 - POMULE, COPACULE (ADORATION OF THE TREE) choir a cappella, lyrics by Nichita

Stănescu

37. 1984 – DOINA – Choir a cappella – lyrics by Nichita Stănescu

Piano works:

38. 2020 – VIVA BEETHOVEN – for piano solo 6’

39. 2019 – BERENICE – for piano solo 9’

40. 2018 – APHRODITE – for piano solo, 8’

41. 2017 – MAGNA MATER – CYBELE (for 2 pianos)

42. 2016 – BRISEIS – Achile’s slave lover - piano solo

43. 2016 – ENCELADUS (Geysers on icy moon)– piano solo

44. 2013 – CALYPSO - fantasy for piano solo

45. 2009 – NOCTURNIANA – fantasy for 3 pianos on Chopin Nocturne

46. 2008 – ENDEAVOUR BELLS – piano fantasy, 9’

47. 1986 - SONATINA BUFFA for Piano Duet / Four Hands, Homage to Charlie

Chaplin, 10’

48. 1985 – SONATINA for piano solo 2 Parts

49. 1981 - SONATA FOR TWO PIANOS 18'

50. 1979 - PIANO SONATA 15'

Chamber music:

51. 2019 – VELVET GARDEN – for viola solo and electronics, 12’

52. 2019 – MOEBIUS LOOP – Trio for Flute, Clarinet in Bb and Piano

53. 2019 – ENTANGLEMENT – Trio for French Horn, Trombone and Viola

54. 2018 – NAMAGIRI – Trio for French Horn, Violin and Piano

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55. 2017 – String Quartet nr. 2 INFLORIBUS

56. 2011 – EKIDNA – piece for oboe solo.

57. 2011- ARCHAEOPTERIX – Trio for Flute, Percussion and Piano

58. 2010 – ENDEAVOUR BELLS – for piano and electronics

59. 2010 – ENDEAVOUR BELLS II – Trio for Flute, Percussion and Piano

60. 2010 - …AND BRUTUS IS AN HONNOURABLE MAN! Mark Anthony’s

speech from Iulius Caesar play by Shakespeare – for 7 Saxophones (one

player) and ensemble

61. 2008 – POLYSPECTRALIA –Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano, 14’

62. 2007 - MYSTERIUM TREMENDUM - for voice and ensemble

63. 2005 - STRINGS OF LIGHT – for 4 guitars

64. 2005 - ROMULUS AND REMUS - Trio for 2 violins and piano

65. 2003 - TABALUGA TANGO – The little Dragon – for 8 Bassoons,

Accordion and Piano

66. 2003 - CLARIVIOLA - for clarinet and viola

67. 2002 - LA MÉMOIR DU MIROIR - 5 bassoons and percussion

68. 2001- THE MISSING TIME - septet

69. 1996 - NIBBLY - RANDOMISE - for Oboe solo, 8'

70. 1995 - IN ALTER MODUS - Trio for Flute, Oboe and Bassoon

71. 1994 - TENTAZIONE - Trio for clarinet, violin and piano, 9'

72. 1993 - CARON's BOAT - SEPTET, 15'

73. 1990 - VERB AND FLAME - String Quartet, 12'

74. 1988 – MIXOLIDIANA & LOCRIANA - 2 pieces for flute,violin, cello and

bassoon, 12'

LIST OF PUBLISHED SCORES

1. 2020 - POPPY FIELDS – Câmpuri de maci – 5 part Oratorio in memory of the soldiers who

died during the First World War – Musikproduktion Hoeflich, Munchen, GERMANY – Repertoire

Explorer. https://repertoire-explorer.musikmph.de/en/product/teodorescu-ciocanea-livia/

2. 2017 - ARCHIMEDES SYMPHONY – 4 part Symphony for full orchestra and organ, Editura

muzicală, Bucharest.

3. 2015 – ORATIO SANCTAE BRIGITTAE – ArsPublica, Italy.

4. 2013 – AUTOMN GOSPELS – for soprano / tenor and piano, publicată de CIMRO – Centrul

de informare muzicală UNMB.

5. 2011 – EKIDNA – piece for Oboe solo, in Romanian Contemporary Works for wind

instruments, Editura Glissando UNMB (National University of Music Bucharest), vol.1.

6. 2006 - ORATIONES ALIQUOT SANCTAE BRIGGITAE – Mixt Choir a cappella, University

of Oradea Press

7. 2003 – NICIODATĂ TOAMNA... 3 lieduri pentru voce şi pian, Editura Glissando a

Universităţii Naţionale de Muzică, Bucureşti, ISBN:973-86648-1-0

8. 2002 - IN ALTER MODUS – Trio for flute, oboe and bassoon, Editura Muzicală UCMR,

Bucureşti, ISBN - 973-42-0309-6

9. 2000 - MELANCOLIE şi ODĂ ÎN METRU ANTIC, în colecţia Lieduri de compozitori

români, vol. I, Editura Fundaţiei România de Mâine a Universităţii Spiru Haret, Bucureşti ,

ISBN: 973-582-194-X

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10. 2000 - SONATINA PENTRU PIAN, second edition, Editura Fundaţiei România de Mâine a

Universităţii Spiru Haret, ISBN: 973-582-209-1

11. 1992 - SONATINA BUFFA for Piano Duet / Four Hands - Homage to Charlie Chaplin,

Editura UCMR

12. 1994 - SONATINA PENTRU PIAN in Sonatine for piano by Romanian composers vol.II,

Editura Fundaţiei România de Mâine a Universităţii Spiru Haret;

1986 - BELLA NAVE - Cantata for Children Choir and ensemble based on a poem by Gianni

Rodari, Editura UCMR, Bucharest

LIST OF COMMERCIALLY CDs

1. 2019 – LIVIA TEODORESCU-CIOCĂNEA: PIANO MUSIC, CD publicat de

TOCCATA CLASSICS – London, Catalogue No: TOCC0448, 70 minutes (comercial

CD), https://toccataclassics.com/product/livia-teodorescu-ciocanea-piano/

2. 2019 – Cortege des Nymphes – Violetta Ștefănescu – Integrale des oevres pour piano de

Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea, published by Eurostar, cod E 1047

3. 2010 – ENDEAVOURS BELLS - Fantasy for piano solo, 9’ – Tamara Smolyar (piano) –

Bridges volume 2, music by Czeck and Romanian composers – published by

Move AUSTRALIA, Catalogue number: MD 3342

4. 2003 - TENTAZIONE - Trio for clarinet, violin and piano, 9' on Bridges volume 1 –

5. music by Australian, Korean and Romanian composers, published by Move

AUSTRALIA, Catalogue number: MD 3281, produced by Monash University, Faculty of

Arts.

6. 2012 – ”Frédéric Chopin” – LIVIA TEODORESCU-CIOCĂNEA – piano (Chopin

Recital: 2 Nocturnes, 7 Waltzs and 4 Ballades), published by ELECTRECORD, EDC

1092.

7. 2006 - LE ROUGE ET LE NOIR (double CD), 94 minutes, 3 act Ballet after Stendhal,

Bucharest National Opera Orchestra and Choir, conductor Răsvan Cernat, CD 1-2,

published by Electrecord Romania, catalog numbers: EDC 690; EDC 691

LIST OF NON-COMERCIALLY RELEASED CDs

8. 2018 – L’ISOLEMENT – vocal poem for 2 sopranos and piano duet, în Antologia muzicii

vocale, publicat de UCMR.

9. 2017 – VECERNIE (Vespers) – mixt choir and solo baritone, performed by Preludiu

choir, conductor Andrei Stănculescu, Vocal Music Romanian Anthology produced by

UCMR (not for sale)

10. 2016 - MYSTERIUM TREMENDUM II, cantata for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, Radio

Chamber Orchestra, conductor Cristian Oroșanu, produced by UCMR and Romanian

Broadcasting Society (not for sale)

11. 2015 - S’AMOR NON È ...on Petrarch Sonet no. 132 – lied for mezzo soprano and piano,

Claudia Codreanu (mezzo soprano) and Diana Vodă (piano) produced by UCMR – 2015,

coproducer Romanian Broadcasting Society (not for sale)

12. 2014 – ORATIO SANCTAE BRIGITTAE – cor mixt a cappella, 6’26’’, în Cdul: SIMN –

2014 Muzică vocal instrumentală şi corală, Corul de cameră Preludiu dirijor Gabriel

Marica. Producător UCMR – 2014, coproducer Romanian Broadcasting Society (not for

sale), Lic. UCMR-ADA: R14AF223010262.

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13. 2012 – EVANGHELIILE TOAMNEI - lied for soprano and piano, in Romanian music anthology. Lieds. CD 13, catalogue number 26, published by UCMR, not for sale.

Performers: Bianca Manoleanu (soprano) and Remus Manoleanu (piano).

14. 2007 - THE ANNUNCIATION – Cantata for Bass, Soprano, 4 horns and strings,

„Romanian Music Today” 2 –Soloists: Pompei Hărăşteanu, Mariana Colpoş, Radio

Chamber Orchestra Bucharest, conductor Cristian Brancusi, published by Star

MediaMusic, catalogue number: 044 (not for sale).

15. 2006 - LE ROUGE ET LE NOIR (double CD), 94 minutes, 3 act Ballet after Stendhal,

Bucharest National Opera Orchestra and Choir, conductor Răsvan Cernat, CD 1-2,

published by Electrecord Romania, catalog numbers: EDC 690; EDC 691

16. 2000 - "RITE FOR ENCHANTING THE AIR" 29’- soloist Pierre-Yves Artaud, conductor

Barrie Webb, The University of Huddersfield Symphonic Orchestra, UK, in Romanian

Symphonic Works Anthology (5) - published by UCMR & Editura Casa Radio, catalog

number: 008 , (not for sale).

LIST OF SELECTED MAJOR PERFORMANCES

• ARCHIMEDES SYMPHONY (revised 2017) – G. Enescu Philharmonic, conductor

Valentin Doni , 21 April 2017, Romanian Atheneum, Bucharest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W91CzLnUtqU&t=4s

• LE ROUGE ET LE NOIR 1st Ballet Suite – G. Enescu Philharmonic, conductor Ovidiu

Bălan, Romanian Atheneum, 2 March 2007, Romanian Atheneum, Bucharest

Part I: Vergy (Love Duet)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxuyDOMWMEI&feature=BFa&list=UUHWuG3dV

yJWLoYlUAyGQjOA&lf=plcp

Part II: The Scandal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbjrzNbwvus&list=UUHWuG3dVyJWLoYlUAyGQj

OA&index=27&feature=plcp

Part III&IV Bells Carrillon and The death of Mme de Renal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tGbzFvHlr0&list=UUHWuG3dVyJWLoYlUAyGQj

OA&index=26&feature=plcp

• LEBENSKRAFT – Piano Concerto nr.2 by Livia Teodorescu-Ciocanea, Romanian

Atheneum, G. Enescu Philharmonic, soloist Livia Teodorescu, conductor Paul Nadler

(Metropolitan Opera, USA) Bucharest, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/user/MelisandeCP#p/u/10/d-Xuotz4TTs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGxOclOtQgI&list=UUHWuG3dVyJWLoYlUAyGQ

jOA&index=10&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydv6bKdVDpQ&list=UUHWuG3dVyJWLoYlUAy

GQjOA&index=9&feature=plcp

• CALYPSO (Fantasy for Piano Solo) – piano solo, Tamara Smolyar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8VdLV9n3sU

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• RITE FOR ENCHANTING THE AIR – Concerto for Flute(s) and orchestra, soloist

Pierre-Yves Artaud, conductor Alan Tongue (UK), Radio National Orchestra Bucharest,

2002.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0wcb9SKvbg&list=UUHWuG3dVyJWLoYlUAyG

QjOA&index=2&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFhgUquyEMY&list=UUHWuG3dVyJWLoYlUAyG

QjOA&index=1&feature=plcp

• CHOPIN RECITAL – Livia Teodorescu-Ciocanea pianist, Romanian Atheneum –

“Chopin 200 Internationa Festival”

http://www.youtube.com/user/MelisandeCP#p/u/0/D5bTnLAufPU

http://fge.org.ro/ro/component/jevents/icalrepeat.detail/2010/12/05/131/-

/NzY1ZGRkYmEyYjFmYjI1YWUxMmNlNzcyZjA0NDU0OTA=/recital-chopin.html

• BALLET “LE ROUGE ET LE NOIR” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOU5DfsBcHo&t=31s

RECENT MEDIA AND BROADCASTING

1. 2019 - Radio PRINCETON, USA, CLASSICAL DISCOVERIES Program, "New Classical Music" editor

Marvin Rosen, August 14, 2019, 8:45 am, Endeavour Bells

Tamara Smolyar, piano, source Toccata Classics – TOCC 0448

2. 2016 - Live concert broadcast May 25, 2016, Radio Chamber Orchestra, Romania musical channel, cantata

Mysterium tremendum for mezzo-soprano and orchestra. Antonela Bârnat – mezzo-soprano and Valentin Doni

conductor.

3. 2017 – Archimedes Symphony broadcast on Radio Slovenia. Radio National Orchestra conducted by Valentin

Doni

4. ROMANIAN RADIO ARCHIEVE: around 12 hours of Radio recordings from concerts or special recordings

(55 works between 1985-2019)

5. 2019 – Portrait/interview Radio Romania Cultural on the occasion of the portrait recital on February 18, 2019 at

the Aula Palace Cantacuzino.

6. 2019 – International TvR portrait/interview on minority day (from the Italian ROASIT minority Association)

7. 2019 - Review CD TOCCATA CLASSICS: Livia Teodorescu Ciocănea: Piano music on musicWeb

International website, author Rob Barnett (Royal Society of Music UK)

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2019/Aug/Teodorescu-Ciocanea_piano_TOCC0448.html

8. 2019 - Review CD TOCCATA CLASSICS: Livia Teodorescu Ciocănea: Piano Music, Fanfare Archive USA,

author Colin Clarke: Strong performances of music by a composer of the highest integrity, well recorded

http://fanfarearchive.com/ntbm/articles/teodorescu-ciocanea-clarke.html

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9. 2019 - Review CD TOCCATA CLASSICS: Livia Teodorescu Ciocănea: Piano music on Amazon.com and

Amazon.co.uk by Henry Fogel for Fanfare Magazine USA:

A nice discovery of piano music by a fine Romanian composer

LIST OF COMPOSITION WORKS PERFORMED BY TAMARA SMOLYAR AND

OTHER AUSTRALIAN PERFORMERS

1. Melbourne, Australia, Melbourne Recital Centre, 22 November 2019

World premiere:

Berenice – piece for piano solo

Pianist: Tamara Smolyar

2. Melbourne, Australia, Melbourne Recital Centre, 31 August 2018

World premiere:

Aphrodite – piece for piano solo

Pianist: Tamara Smolyar

3. Monash University, Music Auditorium, 06 July 2018, Gender Diversity in Music Making

Conference:

L’isolement: vocal poem for 2 sopranos and piano four hands (2017) feat. Merlyn Quaife

and Judith Dodsworth (sopranos), Tamara Smolyar and Len Vorster (piano).

Enceladus for piano solo (2016) feat. Tamara Smolyar (piano).

Namagiri: Trio for French Horn, Violin and Piano (2018) feat. Roman Ponomariov

(French Horn), Elizabeth Sellars (violin) and Tamara Smolyar (piano).

4. Monash University, Music Auditorium, 07 July 2018, Gender Diversity in Music Making

Conference:

String Quartet No. 2 ‘Infloribus’ (2017)

Feat. the Valencia Quartet: Lizzy Welsh (violin I), Kyla Matsuura-Miller (violin II), Clare

Gorton (viola), Luke Severn (cello)

5. Melbourne, Australia, Robert Blackwood Hall, 1st September 2016

World premiere:

Briseis (Achile’s slave lover), piece for piano solo

Pianist: Tamara Smolyar

6. Melbourne, Australia, Melbourne Recital Centre, 29 April 2016

World premiere:

Enceladus (Geysers on icy moon) – piece for piano solo

Pianist: Tamara Smolyar

7. Australia, Melbourne Philharmonic, Melbourne Recital Centre, 2nd May 2013

World premiere:

Calypso, fantasy for piano solo.

Pianist: Tamara Smolyar

8. Hong Kong, Parsons Music Centre, 16 February 2014

Calypso, fantasy for piano solo

Pianist: Tamara Smolyar pian.

9. Italia, International Festival Strade dell’Est, Camino al Tagliamento, Chiesa di Ognisanti,

1 November 2014

Australian premiere:

Oratio Sanctae Brigittae, choir a cappella – Astra Choir (within the international tour of

Astra Choir), conductor: John McCaughey.

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10. Romania, St. Joseph Cathedral, Bucharest, 12 November 2014

Oratio Sanctae Brigittae, choir a cappella – Astra Choir (within the international tour of

Astra Choir), conductor: John McCaughey.

11. Australia, Melbourne, International Festival Music in the Round 2008 (Performing arts),

Monash Music Auditorium, 21st September 2008

World premiere:

Polyspectralia – Trio for clarinet, violin and piano

Interpreţi: David Griffiths (clarinet), Miki Tsunoda (vioară), Tamara Smolyar (piano)

12. Australia, Melbourne, International Festival Music in the Round 2009 (Performing arts),

Monash Music Auditorium, 15 September 2009.

World premiere:

Endeavour Bells–fantasy for piano solo

Pianist: Tamara Smolyar

13. Romania, București, M. Jora Concert Hall, Romanian Radio Broadcasting Society,

International Festival International Week of New Music, Bucharest, 28 May 2008

World premiere:

LEBENSKRAFT – Piano concerto nr.2

Soloist: Tamara Smolyar (Australia), Radio Chamber Orchestra, conductor Jean-Claude

Dodin (France), live broadcasting by Radio Cultural. Live recording in the Radio Archive

(CARDEX)

14. Australia, Melbourne, Good Shepard Chapel, 8 March 2016

Vespers (Vecernie) – mixt choir and bariton solo

ASTRA Choir, conductor John McCaughey.

15. Australia, Melbourne, Carmelite Church, Middle Park, 15 June 2014

Oratio Sanctae Brigittae – mixt choir a cappella

ASTRA Choir, conductor: John McCaughey.

16. Italia, Prato, Scuola di Musica G. Verdi, Sala Concerti ‘Domenico Zipoli’, 4 December

2014

Calypso, fantasy for piano solo

Pianist: Tamara Smolyar

17. Indonesia, Djakarta, Jaya Suprana School of Performing Arts, 19 May 2011

Endeavour Bells - fantasy for piano solo

Pianist: Tamara Smolyar

18. Tasmania, University of Tasmania, Yamaha Piano Series, 21st April 2007

Sonatina pentru pian

Australian premiere:

Pianist: Tamara Smolyar

19. Australia, Melbourne, Monash Music Auditorium, Lunchtime Concert series, 29 March 2005

World premiere:

Romulus and Remus - Trio for 2 violins and piano

Primă audiţie absolută(Monash University commission)

Performers: Fintan Murphy (vioară), Elisabeth Sellars (vioară) and Tamara Smolyar

(pian)

20. Australia, Melbourne, Monash Music Auditorium, 16 februarie 2003

Tentazione - Trio pentru clarinet, vioară şi pian

Interpreţi: David Griffiths (clarinet), Fintan Murphy (violon), Tamara Smolyar (pian)

21. Romania, National University of Music Bucharest (UNMB), 23rd May 2011

Endeavour Bells–fantasy for piano solo

Pianist: Tamara Smolyar (within Contrasts and Colors - piano recital).

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OTHER WORLD PREMIERES AND PERFORMANCES (2015-2020)

1. 2019 - ISCM INTERNATIONAL MUSIC DAYS International Festival – TALLINN, ESTONIA:

Magna Mater for two pianos, selected and performed at the Talin Philharmonic, 5.05.2019,

performers: Kadri-Ann Sumera and Talvi Hunt.

2. 2019 - Berenice – for solo piano, singer Tamara Smolyar, November 22, 2019, Melbourne Recital

Centre, Melbourne Philharmonic, Australia, world premiere

3. 2019 - Scene from the opera Lady with the Puppy after Chekhov (Duet and Arii), performers Irina

Iordăchescu and Lucian Corchiş, Romanian Athenaeum Large Hall, April 14, 2019.

4. 2019 - Entanglement – Trio for Corn, Trombon and Viola, SIMN International Festival, 26 May

2019, Auditorium Hall, UNMB, world premiere

5. 2019 - Prayer of Queen Marie for the Dead, for solo mezzo-soprano, solo violin and choir,

interpreți Elisabeth Campbell (mezzo-soprano), Erkki Veltheim (violin) and Astra Choir, conductor

John McCaughey, 2 June 2019, Carmelite Church, Melbourne, stagiunea Societății, world

premiere

6. 2019 - Concertino Buffo – for piano and orchestra, Arad Philharmonic, soloist Andreea Olariu,

conductor Barrie Webb, at the Festival "Love Romanian Music", AFCN project, October 10, 2019,

world premiere

7. 2019 - Velvet Garden for solo viola and electronic environment, Meridian SIMC International

Festival, November 3, 2019 world premiere

8. 2019 - Mobius Loop – trio for Flute, Clarinet and Piano, G. Enescu International Festival, Aula

Cantacuzino Palace, world premiere

9. 2019 - Concertino Buffo for piano and orchestra, Arad Philharmonic, soloist Andreea Olariu,

conductor Cristian Lupeș, 15 November 2019, Capitol Hall of the Timişoara Philharmonic, AFCN

project, world premiere

10. 2018 - Autumn Gospels – lied, performer Lucian Corchiş and Liana Mareș, Bucharest National

Opera, on the occasion of Romanian Culture Day, 15 January 2018

11. 2018 - Enceladus – solo piano, performer Violetta Ştefănescu, 9 April 2018, Cité des Artes,

PARIS, France, European premiere.

12. 2018 - Stage from the opera Lady with puppy (duet and 2 areas), SIMN International Festival,

performers Lucian Corchiş, Bianca Manoleanu and Remus Manoleanu, 27 May 2018, Cantacuzino

Palace, world premiere

13. 2018 - Portrait Recital (7 pieces for piano and 1 piece for piano in 4 hands), singer Violetta

Ştefănescu (guest Livia Teodorescu), June 17, 2018, Romanian Athenaeum, Small Hall.

14. 2018 - Aphrodite – solo piano, absolute premiere, 31 August 2018, Melbourne Recital Centre –

Melbourne Philharmonic, world premiere

15. 2018 - Nocturniana – fantasy for 2 pianos, MajuraInternational Festival, 1 Oct 2018, Auditorium

Hall of the National Museum of Art, performers Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea and Violetta

Ştefănescu

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16. 2018 - Magna Mater – for 2 pianos, Majura International Festival, 1 Oct 2018, Auditorium Hall of

the National Museum of Art, performers Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea and Violetta Ştefănescu, as

performer and songwriter.

17. 2018 - Sonatina buffa – piano 4 hands, MajuraInternational Festival, 1 Oct 2018, Auditorium Hall

of the National Museum of Art, performers Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea and Violetta Ştefănescu

18. 2017 - Vespers (Vespers) – mixed choir and solo baritone (Prologue from the opera Lady with the

Dog after Chekhov) in Russian, first Romanian premiere at the International Week of New Music

Festival 2017, G. Enescu UNMB Hall. Radio recording (Cardex).

19. 2017 - Magna Mater – Cybele, for two pianos in the recital at the Romanian Athenaeum (big hall)

20. Livia Teodorescu-Ciocanea and Tamara Smolyar (Australia), May 27, 2017, world premiere

21. 2017 - String Quartet No. 2 Infloribus at the G. Enescu International Festival, at the Cantacuzino

Palace, performers of the Profil quartet, world premiere

22. 2017 - L'Isolement – vocal poem for two sopranos and four-handed piano at the MERIDIAN-

SIMC International Festival. Radio recording, world premiere

23. 2017 - The Archimedes Symphony (revised version 2017) presented as part of the G. Enescu

Philharmonic, 20 and 21 April 2017, the G. Enescu Philharmonic, conductor Valentin Doni.

Participation as a songwriter.

24. 2017 - Vespers (Vespers) – mixed choir and solo baritone (Prologue from the opera Lady with the

Puppyafter Chekhov) in Russian, Romanian premiere, at the International Week of New Music

Festival2017, G. Enescu UNMB Hall. Radio recording (Cardex).

25. 2016 - Vespers (Vecernia) – mixed choir and solo baritone, Astra choir, Melbourne, Australia, 8

March 2016, conductor John McCaughey, world premiere

26. 2016 - Enceladus (Geysers on icy moon) – for solo piano, singer Tamara Smolyar (solo piano),

Melbourne Recital Centre (Melbourne Philharmonic), 29 April 2016, world premiere

27. 2016 - Mysterium tremendum – cantata for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, within the SIMN

Festival, Radio Chamber Orchestra, soloist Antonela Bârnat, conductor Cristian Oroșanu, 25 May

2016, world premiere

28. 2015 - Japan, Tokyo, Ryogoku Art Festival 2015, concerts on 10, 11, 12 August 2015,

Nocturniana – fantasy for 2 pianos. Interpreter: Akiko Fujita, Satoko Inoue.

29. 2015 - Australia, Melbourne, 29 noiembrie Carmelite Church, lucrarea Luminous child - Astra

choir, dirijor John McCaughey

30. 2015 - G. Enescu Festival, Bucharest, Song of Automne (Verlaine lyrics) and S'amor non e...

(Petrarca lyrics), performers Bianca Manoleanu and Remus Manoleanu, September 11, The Small

Hall of the Palace.

31. 2015 - Craiova International Music Festival, 42nd edition, Art Museum, September 3, 2015, 42nd

edition, Bianca and Remus Manoleanu: the works Chanson d'automne and S'amor non e.

32. 2015 - Bucharest, SIMN Festival, Sala G. Enescu, UNMB, May 24, 2015, s'amor non e... lied on

lyrics by Petrarca, performers Claudia Codreanu (mezzosoprano) and Diana Voda-Nuteanu (piano).

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33. 2015 - Bucharest, SNR-SIMC Meridian International Festival, November 18, Polyspectralia - Trio

for violin, clarinet and piano, performers Trio Mosaic: Emil Vișanescu, Diana Spânu Dănilă and

Oana Spânu Vișanescu

34. 2019 – Solo piano recital and vocal accompaniment, Romanian Athenaeum, large hall, April 14,

with Irina Iordăchescu and Lucian Corchiş.

35. 2017 – Two piano and solo recital (Debussy) with Tamara Smolyar, Romanian Athenaeum, big

hall, June 27, 2017.

36. 2016 – Solo piano recital (Chopin and Schubert 4 Impromptus op. 90) and vocal accompaniment

with Lucian Corchiş, Romanian Athenaeum, large hall, November 5, 2016

37. 2015 - Bucharest, Concert season Enescu Museum, March 23, 2015, liedul S'amor non e... lied on

lyrics by Petrarca, performers Claudia Codreanu (mezzosoprano) and Inna Oncescu (piano).

38. 2019 - Compositional portrait: Integral works for solo piano, performer Violetta Ştefănescu, two

songs, singers Andreea Carmen Marin and Violetta Ştefănescu, February 18, 2019, Aula Palace

Cantacuzino.

39. 2018 – L’Isolement - vocal poem for 2 sopranos and piano duet, 6 iulie 2018, Melbourne, Music

Auditorium, Monash University

40. 2018 - Enceladus – piano solo, Melbourne, Music Auditorium, Monash University, 6 iulie 2018

41. 2018 - Namagiri – Trio for Corn, Violin and Piano, 6 iulie 2018, Melbourne, Music Auditorium,

Monash University

42. 2018 - String Quartet nr. 2 Infloribus - 7 iulie 2018, Melbourne, Music Auditorium, Monash

University.

43. Four solo piano works performed by Violetta Ştefănescu during the UNMB season, Centenary

concert, G. Enescu Hall

44. 2015 - Austria, Vienna, Club der Wiener Musikerinnen, at Praesentation Rumanischer

Komponistinnen, 10 January 2015, Calypso - fantasy for solo piano. Performer: Ana Szilagy

(Austria).

45. 2015 - Australia, Melbourne, 29 noiembrie Carmelite Church, Melbourne, Luminous child - Astra

choir, dirijor John McCaughey

46. 2015 - Germany, Oldenburg, 6 November 2015, Archaeopterix – Trio for Flute, Percussion and

Piano performers the band Contraste.

47. 2019 – Recital Chopin (solo piano) and vocal accompaniment with Lucian Corchiş, 16 Dec 2019,

The Central Library Hall, on the occasion of Minority Day.

48. 2018 - Recital solo piano (Chopin) and vocal accompaniment with Lucian Corchiş, Bucharest

Military Circle, January 20, 2018.

49. 2018 – Recital solo piano Theatre Maria Filotti, Oct 8, 2018.

50. Recital solo piano (Liszt, Schubert, Beethoven Chopin, Debussy, Verdi) Music Salon of the

Cantacuzino Palace, February 28, 2017.

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51. Recital solo piano, (Liszt, Schubert, Beethoven Chopin, Debussy, Verdi), Nae LeonardMusical

Theatre, Galati, March 12, 2017.

52. Solo PianoRecital, Athenaeum of Tecuci, September 7, 2017..

WORKS AQUIRED BY THE ROMANIAN COMPOSER’S AND MUSICOLOGISTS UNION (2015-

2020)

1. 2020 – Moebius Loop – Trio for Flute, Clarinet Bb and Piano

2. 2019 – Entanglement – Trio for Horn, Trombon and Violă

3. 2018 – Namagiri – Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano

4. 2018 – L’Isolement – Vocal poem for 2 sopranos and piano duet

5. 2017 - Magna Mater – Cybele, for two pianos

6. 2017 - String Quartet nr. 2 Infloribus

7. 2016 - Mysterium tremendum, Cantata for mezzo-soprano and orchestra

8. 2016 – Toamna și Întomnare’n lied on poems by Nicolae Coman for mezzo-soprano and piano

9. 2015 – The Lady with the Dog - Doamna cu cățelul, 3 act opera, 156 minutes, after Chekhov. UCMR

commission.

10. 2015 - Archaeopterix – Trio for Flute, Percussion and Piano

WORKS AQUIRED BY MONASH UNIVERISY LIBRARY

11. 2017 – MAGNA MATER- CYBELE (for two pianos)

12. 2016 – ENCELADUS (Geysers on icy moon)– piano solo

13. 2013 –CALYPSO - fantasy for piano solo

14. 2013 – NOCTURNIANA – fantasy for 2 pianos on Chopin Nocturne

15. 1986 - SONATINA BUFFA for Piano Duet / Four Hands,

Homage to Charlie Chaplin

16. 1985 – SONATINA for piano solo (2 Parts)

17. 2017 – String Quartet nr. 2 INFLORIBUS

18. 2011- ARCHAEOPTERIX –Trio for Flute, Percussion and Piano

19. 2005 - STRINGS OF LIGHT – for 4 guitars

20. 2005 - ROMULUS AND REMUS Trio for 2 violins and piano

21. 2003 - CLARIVIOLA - for clarinet and viola

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22. 1994 - TENTAZIONE - Trio for clarinet, violin and piano