Ana-Maria Avram

Ana-Maria Avram in St Merry, Paris

Ana-Maria Avram (born September 12, 1961 in Bucharest) is a Romanian composer affiliated with the spectral music style. She represents with Iancu Dumitrescu the Hyper-Spectral trend in contemporary avant-garde music. conductor with Dumitrescu of the Hyperion Ensemble

Her music is spectral, acousmatic, heterophonic and transformational. She has composed around 160 works: music for soloists, chamber music, music for orchestra, electronic music and computer assisted music

Biographical notes: 1980-1985 - she accomplished studies of composition at the National University of Music- 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. 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 , Un Aaggio Ardente for chamber orchestra, De Sacrae Lamentationem, In Nomine Lucis , Chaosmos- for large orchestra, Zodiaque I-IV, Notturno I-II , Labyrinthe I-III , Signum Gemini , Ikarus I-IV , Traces, Sillons, Sillages, Doryphories , New Arcana, Ascent, Voices of the Desert, Telesma I-VII- electronic & instrumental music, Archae , Metaboles , Axe , Quatre Etudes d’ombre, Ikarus-Kronos Quartet , Assonant I-III - instrumental and chamber musics, Horridas Nostrae Mentis Purga Tenebras, Nouvel 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, Stanford, 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, Conway Hall, LSO St Luke’s) Nancy, Alicante, Lisbon, Baden-Baden, Darmstadt, Moscow, Belgarde, Berlin, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Minneapolis, etc. As Blodgett Artists in Residence at the Harvard University department of Music she gave conferences and concerts.

Her works has been commissioned by prestigious ensembles such as Kronos Quartet (San Francisco) 20 Jahrhundert from Vienna, soloists from l’Orchestre National de France, Mozaik Ensemble ( Berlin), Musiques Nouvelles ( Bruxelles), Ensemble Lucilin ( Luxembourg), Bodo Sinfonieta ( Bodo, Norway) orchestras as Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra, Romanian National Orchestra, Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, L’Orchestre de Chambre de Roumanie, IMEB - Bourges, Io String Quartet - Nwe York 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.

Founder and director, with Iancu Dumitrescu, of the International Festival of Electronic andc Computer Music "Acousmania" Bucharest, - in partnership with Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation, "Musica Nova" International festival (Ploiesti), Spectrum XXI -(Paris, London, Geneva, Brussels, Berlin, Mons, Bucharest), Siberfest 2007 ( Sibiu).Founder of the Romanian Community of Electronic and Computer Music ( 2004) . Vice- President of CIME ( Intenational Community of Electronic Music – UNESCO).

Edited by : “ Edition Modern “ ( London) , “ Electrecord ” (Bucharest) , ”Artgallery ” (Paris ) , “ ReR Megacorp ” (London) , “ Bananafish ” (Los Angeles) , “ Musicworks ” (Toronto).

Contribution in musicology:

• ”Ana Maria Avram and Iancu Dumitrescu” - Musicworks Nr 71, “Being composer” - MusicWorks nr.76 ( 2000);
• “Ana-Maria Avram: an adventure in experimental music” an interview with Costin Cazaban, Bananafish, Los Angeles no 15 ( 2001)
• Jean-Noël Von Der Weid: “La Musique du XX Siècle” - Paris, Hachette, 2004
• Roumanie, Terre du Neuvième Ciel - a book with interviews with Belgian musicologist Harry Halbreich ( Bucharest, Axis Mundi, 1992, CREMAC, 2006)
• La Musique Spectrale au début du XXI siècle. Conference on spectral music held in Paris, 2006. With Ana-Maria Avram, Harry Halbreich, Ben Wayson, Costin Cazaban, Sebastien Beranger, Rainer Boesch, Tim Hodgkinson, Radu Stan, Christian Clozier

External links

• Home page of Ana-Maria Avram. Biography, Catalog, press excerpts, scores examples, recoprdings, texts on music
• A derscription of last Edition - 2011 of SPECTRUM XXI festival dedicated to spectral music trends, initiated and directed by Ana-Maria Avram and Iancu Dumitrescu
• Biography, interviews and catalogue of works
• SpectrumXXI international festival dedicated to spectral music initiated by Ana-maria Avram and Iancu Dumitrescu
• Biography and pressbook
• An interview