SABINE ULUBEANU - ROMENIA
BORN 3 AUGUST
BORN 3 AUGUST
Sabina Ulubeanu is one of the most complex artistic personalities of her generation, as her work comprises composition, photography, musicology, teaching, experimental performance and directing a young international new arts festival.
She was born in Bucharest, 3.08.1979. Studied piano at the George Enescu Music Highschool and then Composition at the National Music University of Bucharest, with Tiberiu Olah and Doina Rotaru (Master in 2004). In 2001/2002 she studied composition with Violeta Dinescu at the Oldenburg University in Germany and in 2011 completed her PhD studies Summa cum Laudae with the thesis „The Function of Memory in the Construction of Musical Time”, a theme that represents the artistic manifesto of the composer. She is a member of the Romanian Composers Union.
Her compositions, chamber music, multimedia or symphonic, are being performed in Romania and abroad (France, Germany, US, Lithuania, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Ukraine, Ireland, Croatia, Estonia, etc) by artists like Arcadia Quartet, Alexandru Tomescu, Laura Buruiana, Matei Varga, Green Thing Ensemble, Ana Topalovic, Barbara Lueneburg, Sonomania Ensemble, Ensemble for New Music Tallin, Peterson Quartet, etc and received national and international prizes. About her music, the composer confesses:
"To write music is for me a necessity, a must. I need to express my emotions.
So, my music is first of all intimate and subjective, my vision of the world that I perceive in every moment. The Technique should always be just a mean of transforming the Feeling into Ideas and the Ideas into a Musical Matter that others could understand."
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Sonata for Cello & Piano by Sabine Ulubeanu
MATHILDE WANTENAAR - NETHERLANDS
BORN 3 AUGUST
BORN 3 AUGUST
Amsterdam born composer Mathilde Wantenaar (1993) started her studies at the Amsterdam Conservatory, where she studied classical composition with Willem Jeths and Wim Henderickx. She has written for, and collaborated with, the Dutch National Opera, the Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra, the Dutch Wind Ensemble, the Netherlands Radio Choir, Wishful Singing, the Ferschtman Cello Quartet, Liza Ferschtman, Ralph van Raat, Johannette Zomer and others.
During her composition studies she studied subsidiary subjects piano with Emile Simonis, cello with Maarten Mostert and voice with Maari Ernits. After her first chamber opera premiered during the Opera Forward Festival of the Dutch National Opera she completed her composition studies and was admitted to the Royal Conservatory of The Hague to study classical voice with Rita Dams and Noa Frenkel. Mathilde currently divides her time between her composition practice and vocal studies.
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