Violeta Dinescu was born on 13 July 1953 in Bucharest and is a Romanian-German composer, pianist and university teacher. From 1972 she studied composition, piano and pedagogy at the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory in Bucharest and composition with Myriam Marbe, and completed her training with distinction in 1978. Since 1982 she has lived and worked in Germany; from 1986 she taught at music academies in Heidelberg, Frankfurt and Bayreuth, and from 1996 to 2021 she was professor of applied composition at the University of Oldenburg, where she founded the Komponisten-Colloquium and the Archiv für Osteuropäische Musik. Her works include the operas “Hunger und Durst” (1985, after Ionesco), “Der 35. Mai” (1986, after Erich Kästner) and “Eréndira” (1992, after Gabriel Garcia Marquez), the ballet “Der Kreisel” (1985) and music for the silent film “Tabu” (1988). In 2010 she received the Johann-Vaillant-Kompositionspreis; since 2017 she has been a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. She is represented as a composer on the Cybele album without compression (1998).
Violeta Dinescu
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