Composer & Piano
Biography:
Dan Dediu, born in Brăila/Romania in 1967, attended the Bucharest Music School from 1981 to 1985, then studied composition with Ştefan Niculescu and Dan Constantinescu at the local conservatory until 1989. He supplemented his studies with Francis Burt, at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, as a scholarship holder of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg and the Alban Berg Foundation in Vienna.
In 1991 he received first prize at the George Enescu International Composers' Competition; in the same year he became an assistant for composition and form theory at the Bucharest University of Music. In 1994 he was visiting professor at Queen's University of Belfast and completed a course in music informatics at IRCAM in Paris.
In 1999 and 2001 he was artistic director of the Bucharest Contemporary Music Festival. Dan Dediu has been a member of the Romanian Composers' Union since 1990 and of the national group of the IGNM since 1992. In 1998 he was appointed professor and in 2000 head of the composition department at the Bucharest University of Music.
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