Valentina Sandu-Dediu

Valentina Sandu-Dediu graduated in musicology in 1990 from what is now the National University of Music in Bucharest, where she has been teaching music history, musicology and stylistics since 1993. She is the author of more than 40 studies and 300 articles, several broadcast series, has written and edited volumes published in Romania and Germany, including: Romanian Music after 1944 (Pfau Verlag, Saarbrücken, 2006); About Style and Rhetorics in Music (Bucharest 2010 / 2013), Parallel Octaves (Bucharest, 2014; In Search of Consonances (Bucharest, 2017); New Histories of Romanian Music (Bucharest, 2020).

Another side of her activity is focused on concert performances and recordings, as a pianist in chamber ensembles (CDs released in Romania with Aurelian Octav Popa, Diana Moş, Irina Mureşanu; in Germany / Neos with Dan Dediu, and in Boston / Albany with Ray Jackendoff).

Valentina Sandu-Dediu was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, currently she is Rector at the New Europe College in Bucharest, Institute for Advanced Study. In 2008 she was awarded the Peregrinus Foundation, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.