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SEPTEMBER 29TH - OCTOBER 8TH 2000 |
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Dora Cojocaru
The Romanian composer Dora Cojocaru was born in 1963. After studies in Maia-Mare in
music, philology and history, she studied composition, pedagogy and piano at Cluj and
subsequently took a master's degree in composition at the Music Academy in Cologne. She
collaborated with "Westdeutscher Rundfunk" from 1993 to 1995, during which period her
works were performed at numerous festivals and locations including Darmstadt, Berlin,
Bayreuth, Cracow, Paris and Odessa. She has also obtained a total of 13 prizes for her
works, including the First Prize at the International Mozart Composition Contest in 1997
and the Prize of the Romanian Composers Union in 1999.
5 Ephemere Moments
5 Ephemere Moments are short musical fragments with contrasting character (Animato /
Scorrevo / Concitato / Addolorato / Ardente), which can be played in any order. They
promote the idea of continuity or discontinuity, which results from the musical gestures.
The thematic material is very economical, of chromatic nature, but it moves in surprising
successions of rich rhythmical structures.