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Creţu, Cătălin (b. September 8, 1971, Petroşani). Romanian composer of mostly orchestral, chamber, choral, piano, electroacoustic, and multimedia works that have been performed in Europe; he is also active as a writer.
Mr. Creţu studied at a music school in Petroşani from 1977–85 and studied electromechanics at the Technical University of Petroşani from 1990–95. He studied musical pedagogy at the Western University of Timişoara from 1993–95 and studied pedagogy at the National University of Music in Bucharest from 1995–98, where he also studied composition with Dan Dediu and Adrian Iorgulescu from 1996–2001 and where he earned his DMus under Octavian Nemescu in 2008. He studied with Peter Michael Hamel at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg in 2001–02, as a student of the ERASMUS programme, and multimedia composition with Georg Hajdu there from 2005–07. He had post-graduate studies at the Institute for Advanced Study of the New European College in Bucharest in 2004–05. He had further studies at Český Krumlov in 2000, Bayreuth in 2001 and Darmstadt in 2002.
He served a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2009), on a George Enescu grant from the Romanian Cultural Institute. His music has been performed in France, Germany and Romania.
He served as music secretary at the National University of Music in Bucharest from 2002–08, where he has worked as a researcher at the Center for Electroacoustic Music and Multimedia since 2008.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: catcretu@yahoo.com
Street address: Mr. Cătălin Creţu, Str. Politehnicii No. 1, Bldg. I1, Sc. A, Apt. 7, 060811 Bucharest, Romania
Telephone: + 402 1312 3860
Cellular phone: + 407 2657 4364
SELECT LIST OF WORKS
ORCHESTRAL: Études, 2000; Ollecello (concerto), cello, orchestra, 2001
CHAMBER MUSIC: Sonatina, violin, piano, 1997; Ciaccona malinconica, violin, cello, piano, 1998; String Quartet, 1998; Quintet, flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn, bassoon, 1999; Antiphonia, 6 trumpets, 2002; Octet, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, string quartet, double bass, 2002; Die Metamorphose von Bruder Jakob, 8 celli, 2005
CHORAL: Prayer (text from a traditional Romanian prayer for children), children’s chorus, cello, 1998; Cantata (vocalise), soprano, mixed chorus, flute, oboe, clarinet, 3 trombones, violin, viola, cello, tape, 2003; Cum se mai poate compune astăzi un imn naţional – How to Write a National Anthem Today (text by Irina Botea), mixed chorus, 2009
PIANO: Inventions, 1996; Theme with Variations, 1996; Sonata No. 1, 1997
ELECTROACOUSTIC: Études, tape, 2002
ALGORITHMIC COMPOSITION: The dark side of the XII, Disklavier, 2006 (also multimedia version)
MULTIMEDIA: Entfremdetes Ich oder die Anatomie des Schattens, cello, live electronics, live film, 2007; Urban alchemy (vocalise), soprano, flute, clarinet, French horn, violin, viola, cello, piano, percussion, tape, live electronics, film (by the composer), live film, 2008; The dark side of the XII, Disklavier, film (by the composer), 2008 (version of algorithmic composition)
(Last updated on November 10, 2009)
