Dan Dediu

Romanian composer Dan Dediu was born in 1967 in Braila, Romania. He graduated composition at the Music University in Bucharest (1989) and attended post-graduate courses at Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna in 1990-91. Among his teachers, one could name the composers Ștefan Niculescu, Dan Constantinescu and Francis Burt. He is quest Lecturer at Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland (1994), and was invited for the Summer Workshop for Composers, IRCAM, Paris (1994). Dediu worked as artistic director of the New Music Festival in Bucharest “International Week of New Music” (1999, 2001, 2007, 2008, 2016 and 2017). Since 2003, he has led the Profil-Sinfonietta Bucharest, in the same year, he started teaching composition at the Bucharest Conservatory and between 2008-2016, he chaired the National University of Music, Bucharest, as elected rector. He received prizes and awards for composition in Vienna, London, Paris, Berlin, Budapest, Bucharest, Dresden, Ludwigshafen. His over 160 works are worldwide performed and produced on CDs by Albany Records, Cavalli, NEOS and Casa Radio. He composed stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and piano works that have been performed throughout Europe and elsewhere.