EVE DUNCAN - AUSTRALIA
BORN 19 SEPTEMBER
Eve Duncan was born on September 19, 1956. She graduated with Honours in Music Composition from La Trobe University in 1990 after working with Theodore Dollarhide and Keith Humble. In 1992 she was awarded the International Modern Music Award for Composition, Vienna, for a work for solo violin.
Recent commissions include Rhapsody of Motion , a project which will take place in 2001, exploring the multiple levels of Federation and using the text of Aboriginal poet Lisa Bellear. Star Traiect - a work expressing northern and southern hemisphere star movements - is another new commission for the Romanian Ensemble Traiect.
International festival performances include the 2000 International Meetings of New Music Festival, Braila, 1999 ISCM World Music Days, 1999 Asia Week Yokohama, Tunungan '97, Manila, 1995 Bangkok Music Festival, the Summer Seminar for New Music, Vienna 1994, and 1994 International Days of New Music Festival, Moldova. Australian performances include the 1998 Melbourne International Festival, and the 1994 Performing Women's Festival.
Commissions include Ensemble Passacaglia Wien, Ensemble Troika, Trio Kinetikon, Carinya Strings, the City of Port Phillip, ChiaHong Drapal Liao, Andrei Podlacha, Stefan Feingold, Danae Killian, Timothy Veldman, Helfried Fister and Peter Neville.
A solo CD Recorded Messages: Violin is available on the Move label. Light Up for string quartet, Not Yet for woodwinds and Where are you Now? for guitar duet are published by RedHouse Editions.
She lives by the Yarra River in Melbourne with her family.
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Archai by Eva Duncan
CARMEN MARIA CÂRNECI - ROMANIA
BORN 19 SEPTEMBER
BORN 19 SEPTEMBER
Carmen Maria Cârneci was born in Romania. She first studied composition in Bucharest as a student of Dan Constantinescu, and later specialized in Freiburg, Germany, on a three years DAAD scholarship as a student of Klaus Huber.
She attended conducting classes with Constantin Bugeanu and Iosif Conta in Bucharest, with Kurt Masur in Weimar, Pierre Boulez in Avignon and Peter Eötvös in Szombathely. Cârneci won scholarships in Italy, France and England and conducting prizes in Austria and Germany.
As a composer Cârneci received scholarships in Germany, Italy, France and England, also awards in Mannheim, Rome, Köln, Bucharest, Hong Kong, as well as important commissions, such as from The City Opera in Bonn and the Ensemble für neue music Zürich (for the chamber opera Giacometti). She was invited both as a conductor and a composer to renown festivals of new music (Donaueschingen, Dresden, Heidelberg, Saarbrücken), andwas artistic director of the International New Music Week in Bucharest (2005; 2006). She appeared as a guest conductor in Stuttgart (State Opera), Milan (Piccola Scala) and Paris (Opéra Bastille).
Among her works, published by Ricordi - München, Furore Verlag - Kassel and Editura Muzicala - Bucharest, are The Garden, Das Hohelied, Trojtza, REm - Cello concerto, the two cycles Giacometti-Szenen and OMENS.
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Que des mots by Carmen Maria Cârneci
Que des mots by Carmen Maria Cârneci
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