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Ana-Maria AVRAM
( Biographical notes - in English)
( Biographie - en Français )
Composer, pianist, conductor, born in 1961 in Bucharest, Romania.
1980-1985 - studies of composition at the Superior National Conservatories
in Bucharest.
1992 DEA of musical aesthetics at Sorbonne Paris
1994 Great Prize of the Romanian Academy
Since 1988 she is a Member of Hyperion Ensemble from Bucharest - group of composers and interpreters representing a new, experimentalist and innovative direction in Romanian music, she realized a lot of European tours, as well as conductor and composer.
Founder and in 1994 of the CREMAC - Comunitatea Romana Electroacustica
si de Muzica Asistata de Computer ;
President of CREMAC and vice president of CIME -
nternqtional Community of Electronic Music
Founder and Director, with Iancu Dumitrescu, since 2002 of
ACOUSMANIA International Festival of Electronic and Computer Music, in
co-operation withy Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation
Fonder and Director , with Iancu Dumitrescu, since 2003 of Musica Nova International Festival of Spectral Music -Ploiesti, Bucharest, Sinaia
Her music incorporates the outward semblences of abstraction
of archetypal sound, achieving its full development in the synthesis of
electroacoustic and instrumental sources.
Her main works are : « Threnia I-II », « Orbit
of Eternal Grace », for orchestra and soloists, « Ekagrata
», « Swarms », « Seconde Axe », « Ec-Statoc
Crickets », for chamber orchestra, « De Sacrae Lamentationem
», « In Nomine Lucis », for large orchestra, «
Zodiaque I-IV », « Notturno I-II », « Labyrinthe
I-III », « Signum Gemini », « Ikarus I-IV
», « Traces, Sillons, Sillages », « Doryphories
», « New Arcana », « Ascent »,
- electronic & instrumental music, « Archae », «
Metaboles », « Axe », « Quatre études
díombre », « Ikarus-Kronos Quartet », « Assonant
I-III » - instrumental and chamber musics, « Horridas Nostrae
Mentis Purga Tenebras », « Novel Archae » - computer
assisted music.
Her music is published by Edition Modern, Electrecord, Editura Muzicala, Artgallery, ReR Megacorp, Musicworks, Bananafish..
Her music was performed in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Standford, in Vienna ( in the Wien Modern Festival in 1992 and 1994 ) at Paris ( several times at « Radio France » and « Theatre de la Ville » ) , in London ( at Royal Festival Hall ) Nancy, Allicante, Lisbon, Baden-Baden, Darmstadt, Moscow, Belgarde, etc.
Her works has been commissioned by prestigious ensembles such as Kronos Quartet ( San Francisco ) « 20 Jahrhundert » from Vienna, soloists from líOrchestre National de France, orchestras as Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra, Romanian National Orchestra, Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, LíOrchestre de Chambre de Roumanie, etc.
« On the Abolition of the Soul » - a Radio
France commission was released on a double CD- Radio France, as an
anthology of Prix Italia since 1949.
« Romanian composer IANCU DUMITRESCU and his associate,
ANA-MARIA AVRAM, leading figures in the Eastern European school
of modern classical music have issued many stunning works through
the years, but this is the first to be issued in America...
»
Los Angeles, sept.1999
« Of the three CDís issued thus far, one also contains
three excellent works by a pupil of his: ANA MARIA AVRAM, whose compositional
style is every bit as fascinating and innovative, and is certainly
a talent to look out for. .. »
Alan FREEMAN ìAUDIONì , LEICESTER , March
1993
« ANA-MARIA AVRAM recently composed a quartet for
Kronos, and followed it up with ìNouvelle Axeî, peformed here by the strings
of Romaniaís Hyperion Ensemble, who also work with DUMITRESCU. Itís an
uncompromising piece with a tendency to noise throughout, drawing blizzards
of pizzicato, high - pitched sounds and lots of glissandos from the
panoply of avant garde string effects. »
ANDY HAMILTON - THE WIRE (49), LONDON, August
1999
« Both Avram and Dumitrescu are convinced that if they
have been able to open new doors in music, it is because they have made
or found precisely those connections between musical activity and inner
life that remain unarticulated in conventional musical training. This is
not, however, simply a matter of theit philosophy and motivation as artists.
The psychological reality if their music is directly grounded in a conception
of the acoustic reality iof sound. »
Tim HODGKINSON, Musdicworks No 71, TORONTO, Summer 1998
« ... Works also features three compositions
by ANA-MARIA AVRAM, born in Bucharest
in 1961. Wonderful to hear music where
textural innovations arenít employed to colour
pre-existing structures, but evolve form
in process. On Zodiaque she plays prepared
piano opposite Dumitrescu, a percussionist and
magnetic tape.
Seems like these Romanians are engaged
in a similar kind of sonic research
to that which resulted in the
masterpieces of Giacinto Scelsi and Ennio
Morricone : collective endeavour, genuine ëdeep
listenningí. The results are similarly overpowering
a milion miles from the tootling inconsecuence
of most of what passes for New Music
in the classical world. »
BEN WATSON - The WIRE, LONDON, May
1995
( with Jean Nicole in Festival Archipel, Geneva, March 2005)
Entre 1984 et 1988 elle remporte de nombreux prix nationaux et internationaux de composition et de musique de chambre. Grand Prix pour la Composition de l'Académie Roumaine (1994). Membre de l'Ensemble Hyperion de Bucarest qu'elle conduit et dirige avec Iancu Dumitrescu depuis 1988.
Sa musique a été jouée à New
York, Los Angeles, Boston, Standford, Vienne (Festival Wien Modern-1992
,1994, 2002,), à Paris (Radio-France, Théâtre de la
Ville), Londres ( Royal Festial Hall), Allicante, Lisbonne, Baden-Baden,
Darmstadt, Moscou, Istanbul, Nancy, etc...
Ses oeuvres ont été jouées par de
nombreux ensembles et solistes : Kronos Quertet, 20 Jahrhunderdt de Vienne,
Claude Delangle,Orchestre Philharmonique G. Enesco de Bucarest, Orchestre
de la Radio Roumaine, Orchestre National de Chambre de Roumanie... Sa musique
a été commandée par des institutions et ensembles
parmi lesquels figurent Radio-France, Kronos Quartet, CCMIX, différents
orchestres roumains, Ensemble Ars Nova... Elle a fondé et
elle conduit avec Iancu Dumitrescu, le Festival International de
Musique Electroacoustique et Assistée par Ordinateur "Acousmania"
Bucarest, - en partenariat avec la Société Roumaine
de Radiodiffusion, le Festival International "Musica Nova"
en paretenariat avec la Philharmonique de Ploiesti. Fondateur du CREMAC
- Comunauté Roumaine Electroacoustique et de Musique Assistée
par Ordinateur.
Sa musique est éditée par « Edition
Modern « ( Londres-Bucarest) , « Electrecord » (Bucarest)
, »Artgallery » (Paris ) , « ReR Megacorp » (Londres)
, « Bananafish » (Los Angeles) , « Musicworks »
(Toronto).
Contributions musicologiques dans de nombreuses revues
dont « Musica »- Bucarest, » Bananafish »-Los
Angeles, « Musicworks » - Toronto) » et le livre
díentretiens avec Harry Halbreich « Roumanie, Terre du neuvième
ciel »- Bucarest, Axis Mundi, 1992.
(with Harry Halbreich in Bruxelles, november 2004 )