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Octav Firulescu
composer and music professor
Born: July 6, 1959, Bucharest, son of Petre
Firulescu, composer
and Amaliei Zugravescu.
Marital status: married to Liliana Firulescu (b. Oprescu), plastic
artist
STUDIES
- 1967-1972 - General School of Music nr.3, Bucharest, with C. Galeriu
(piano)
- 1972-1979 - Music High School "George Enescu", Bucharest, with Viorica Platon
(piano) and Amalia Gheorghe (musical theory- solfeggio)
- 1979-1983 - Conservatory of Music "Ciprian Porumbescu" of Bucharest
(now the National University of Music "Ciprian Porumbescu"),
with Victor Giuleanu (musical theory- solfeggio), Dan Constantinescu and Dan Buciu
(harmony),
Liviu Comes and Dinu Ciocan (counterpoint), Ştefan Niculescu (musical
forms), Dan Constantinescu (composition), Nicolae Beloiu (orchestration),
Liviu Brumariu and Petre Brâncuşi (history of music), Marin
Constantin (chorus conducting), Iosif Conta (orchester conducting), Gheorghe
Oprea (folklore), Viorica Dimitriu (piano)
- 1983 - University Teaching Certificate
- 1986 - Final Attest in Higher Education
CARIERA
- 1983-1989 - Professor of chamber music, Military High School, Bucharest
- 1990-1998 - Professor of piano and musical composition, Conservatory of
Music, Casablanca, Morocco
- since 1998 - Professor of piano and solfeggio, High School of Music "Union
Grand-Duke Adolph"
MUSICAL CREATION
- symphonic music
- Symphony nr. 1 (1984), first audition at the Romanian Athenaeum,
Bucharest, November 1986, conductor Mircea Basarab
- film music
- chamber music
- Quartet of strings (1986)
- Sonata for piano (1987)
- light music
- VIS DE VARĂ (A Summer's Dream) - 1986, for voice and piano, text
by Carmen
Bendovski (ST-EDE 02852)
- DOR (Longing) - 1986, for voice and piano, text by Carmen Bendovski
(ST-EDE 03478; ST-EDE 02943)
- ŞTIU (I know) - 1986, for voice and piano, text by Carmen
Bendovski
- NU PLECA (Don't get away) - 1986, for voice and piano, text by Carmen Bendovski
- DE VEI VENI (If Your were to come) - 1986, for voice and piano, text
by Carmen
Bendovski
- CÂNTEC PENTRU PACEA PLANETEI (Song for Planet Peace) - 1986, for
voice and piano, text by Gina Teodorescu (ST-EDE 03074)
- NOI TINERII (We, the Young People) - 1986, for voice and piano, text
by Gina
Teodorescu
- DRUM DE OM (A Man's Life Run) - 1986, for voice and piano, text by Gina
Teodorescu (ST-EDE 02992)
- IUBIRE DIN NESFÂRŞIT (Love from Eternity) - 1987, for voice and
piano, text by
Eugen Rotaru
- POEM DE DRAGOSTE (Love's Poem) - 1987, for voice and piano, text by Carmen
Bendovski
- PENTRU VIAŢA TA (To Your Life) - 1987, for voice and piano, text
by
Eugen Rotaru (ST-EDE 03197)
- DE-AŞ FI ŞTIUT (If I Knew) - 1987, for voice and piano, text
by
Eugen Rotaru
- MĂ GRĂBESC LA ÎNTÂLNIRE (I Run to Meet my Love) - 1987,
for voice and piano, text by Nicolae Dragoş
- AŞA SĂ-MI FIE DRAGOSTEA (So Be My Love!) - 1988, for voice
and piano, text by Eugen Rotaru (ST-EDE 02891)
- E CÂNTEC LIBER TINEREŢEA MEA (My Youth is a Free Poem) - 1988,
for voice and piano, text by Eugen Rotaru
- CÂNTEC PENTRU EROU (Song to a Hero) - 1988, for voice and piano, text
by Eugen
Rotaru
- LUMEA E PENTRU NOI FĂCUTĂ (The World is Made for Us) - 1989,
for voice and piano, text by Dan V. Dimitriu
- DACĂ VREI (If You Wish it) - 1989, for voice and piano, text by Dan V.
Dimitriu
- MUGURI PENTRU VIITOR (Buds for Future) - 1989, for voice and piano,
text by Dan
V. Dimitriu
PRIZES AND AWARDS
- 1986 - The Prize for Musical Creation, granted by the Youth Union for
the
"Songs of the Year", for the composition "Cantec pentru pacea
planetei" (Song for Planet Peace)
- 1986 - Second Prize at the "Youth' Festival" for the
composition "Cantec pentru pacea planetei" (Song for Planet
Peace)
-
1987 - Prize of the Council of Culture at the "FESTIVAL OF DANCING
MUSIC COSTINESTI" for the composition "Iubire din nesfarsit"
(Love from Eternity)
-
1988 - Third Prize at the "YOUTH' FESTIVAL" for the
composition "E cantec liber tineretea mea" (My Youth is a Free
Poem)
- 1988 - Second Prize at the "FESTIVAL OF MILITARY MUSIC"
for the composition "Cantec pentru erou" (Song to a
Hero)
- 1989 -Second Prize at "DANCING MUSIC CONTEST
COSTINESTI" for the composition "Daca vrei" (If You
Wish It)
- prizes won with the piano class at the 22nd National Competition for
Young Soloists, Luxembourg,
2006
- two silver medals (second division)
- one bronze medal (second division)
AFFILIATIONS
- 1987 - Life Member of the Romanian Union of Composers and Musicologists
- Member of the National Music Federation of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
"Union Grand Duke Adolph"
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Buciu, Dan - ÎN PRAGUL …COMPOZIŢIEI, în: MUZICA, Bucureşti,
33, nr. 2 (365), 1983
- Petrescu, Dinu - PUBLICUL ŞI CREAŢIA MUZICALĂ ROMÂNEASCĂ,
în: CONTEMPORANUL, Bucureşti, 9 XI 1984
- Alexandru, M. H. - PERSONALITĂŢI DISTINCTE, în: CONTEMPORANUL,
Bucureşti, 14 XII 1984
- Dogaru, Anton - PENTRU PRIMA OARĂ LA ATENEU, în: ROMANIA LITERARA,
Bucureşti, 25 IV 1985
- Ursulescu, Octavian - CRONICĂ. MELODIILE ANULUI 1985, în: ROMANIA
LIBERA, Bucureşti, 21 I 1986
- Ursulescu, Octavian - O CERTITUDINE A CALITĂŢII ARTISTICE
ŞI EDUCATIVE, în: SCÎNTEIA.TINERETULUI, Bucureşti, 24 IV 1986
- Oţeanu, Smaranda - VALORIFICAREA FILONULUI FOLCLORIC – SURSĂ A
ORIGINALITĂŢII CREAŢIEI ARTISTICE, în: SCÎNTEIA, Bucureşti,
6 VII 1986
- Oţeanu, Smaranda - PE ECRANE ÎN LUNA APRILIE, în ROMANIA LIBERA,
Bucureşti, 2 IV 1988
- Pantajoglu, Ludmila - CRONICA LA UIMITOARELE AVENTURI ALE MUŞCHETARILOR,
în: CONTEMPORANUL, Bucureşti, 15 IV 1988
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
- English, French, Luxembourgish
ADDRESS
- Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
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