Dan Dediu Recordings

Dan Dediu was born on 16th March 1967 in Braila, Romania. He graduated in composition from the Music University in Bucharest (1989) and attended post-graduate courses at HMdK in Vienna (1990/91). Scholarships and Fellowships were offered by Alfred-Toepfer Foundation, Hamburg, Alban-Berg Foundation, Vienna, New Europe College, Bucharest, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Zuger Kulturstiftung Landis & Gyr, Switzerland, Bavarian Ministry for Culture, Germany. Among his teachers are composers Ştefan Niculescu, Dan Constantinescu and Francis Burt. In 1995, he earned his PhD in Music with a thesis on the subject of “The Phenomenology of Composition”.

Dediu has served as artistic director of the New Music Festival in Bucharest “International Week of New Music” (1999, 2001, 2007, 2008, 2016-2019). In 2003 he founded Profil-Sinfonietta, a Romanian new music ensemble and in the same year is appointed professor for composition at the National University of Music, Bucharest. Between 2008 and 2016 he chaired the same institution as elected rector.

His over 170 compositions are performed worldwide (for example Wien Modern, Neuköllner Oper, Warsaw Autumn, Enescu Festival, Cabrillo Festival, Konzerthaus Berlin, Philharmonie Hamburg, Mexico City) and cover all the genres: 5 symphonies and 20 orchestral pieces, 7 string quartets, 11 concertos, 4 operas, piano, chamber and choral music. Much of his music has been recorded by Albany Records, Cavalli, NEOS, NM Extra, Move Records and Casa Radio. He has received prizes and awards for composition in Vienna, London, Paris, Berlin, Budapest, Bucharest, Dresden, Ludwigshafen. Also, he is the recipient of two honorary doctorates in Romania, at University of Arts Iaşi and Craiova University.