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 )