(b. 26 June 1962, Bucharest – d. 13 February 2018, Bucharest).
Romanian composer of mostly orchestral, chamber and vocal works that have been performed throughout Europe; he was also active as a musicologist.
Mr. Teodoreanu studied with Ștefan Niculescu, Aurel Stroe and Anatol Vieru at the Universitatea Națională de Muzică București, where he earned his BA in composition in 1986. He later studied with Paul-Heinz Dittrich, York Höller, Dieter Schnebel, and Walter Zimmermann at the Universität der Künste Berlin from 1994–96, on a scholarship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, and studied electroacoustic music with Dieter Kaufmann at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna in 1996–97, on the Herder-Stipendium. He earned his PhD at the Academia de Muzică Gheorghe Dima in Cluj-Napoca in 2002, with his dissertation Intonation Systems in Romanian Folklore.
Among his honours were a mention in the competition Carl Maria von Weber (1991, for String Quartet), a residency in Dilsberg (1999), on a scholarship from the Kulturstiftung Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, the Premiul George Enescu from the Academia Română in Bucharest (2006), and two prizes from the Uniunea Compozitorilor și Muzicologilor din România in Bucharest (2011, 2014).
As a musicologist, he wrote articles for numerous publications in Romania and was active as a researcher at the Institutul de Etnografie și Folclor Constantin Brăiloiu in Bucharest from 1990–2018. He co-founded the Romanian Society of Ethnomusicology in 1996, which is the section in Romania of the International Council for Traditional Music. In addition, he undertook research at the Colegiul Noua Europă in Bucharest from 1999–2002, on a scholarship.
He taught as an associate professor of computer music, ethnomusicology and musical forms and analyses at the Universitatea Națională de Muzică București from 1990–2018 and at the Universitatea Transilvania din Brașov from 1990–2009.
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
STAGE:
Corabia (mini-chamber opera, libretto by the composer, after the Bible, Gert Kaiser, Ludwig Achim von Arnim, Clemens Brentano), 4/8/12 mixed voices, trombone, tuba, violin, cello, 1996 (may be performed as a concert work)
ORCHESTRAL:
Poem, large orchestra, 1989
Concerto, viola, orchestra, 1991–92
Vârstele timpului, large orchestra, 1993
Concerto, violin, string orchestra, 1995
CHAMBER MUSIC:
Dialoguri, flute, oboe, 1983
Sonata, cello, piano, 1984
Criniște, French horn, trumpet, trombone, 1987
Quartet de coarde – String Quartet, 1989
Recitativo secco e basso continuo, trumpet, double bass, 1995
HeteroFonie, 3 alto recorders, 1995
Strigare de biruință, violin, 1999
Fântâna tinereții, flute, cello, live electronics, 2010
Murmur, soprano saxophone (+ sopranino saxophone, baritone saxophone), viola, piano, 2011 (also version for flute [+ piccolo, bass flute], piano, percussion, 2014)
Noison, flute, piano, percussion, 2014
Muguri și flori, 2 violas, 2016
CHORAL:
Cu colțul inimii (text by Nichita Stănescu), mixed chorus, 1984
Despre țara de unde venim (text by Ana Blandiana), mixed chorus, 1985
Colindă (text by Lucian Blaga), mixed chorus, 1987
Nașterea Ta, 12 equal voices, 1988
Belșug (text by Lucian Blaga), mixed chorus, 1992
Cântecul bradului (text by Lucian Blaga), mixed chorus, 1993
Ceremonial (texts from the Bible, folk sources), mixed chorus, 1994
Corabia (mini-chamber opera), 4/8/12 mixed voices, trombone, tuba, violin, cello, 1996 (concert version of stage work)
Imnele iernii. Cântări la Nașterea Domnului, soprano, mezzo-soprano, bass, mixed chorus, small orchestra, 2011
Lamnicu, plamnicu piscopalnicu, children's chorus, percussion, 2012
Nunta (text by Daniel Turcea), 4 mixed voices, clarinet (+ bass clarinet), violin, viola, harpsichord, 2013
Gloria Patri. Omaggio a Liviu Glodeanu, mixed chorus, 2015
VOCAL:
Noaptea de cremene (cantata, text by Vasile Voiculescu), mezzo-soprano, small orchestra, 1986
Lacrimă și Rază (text by Lucian Blaga), mezzo-soprano, piano, 1988
Anastasia (text by Daniel Turcea), mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet, cello, piano, percussion, 1992
Strigare (text from Psalm 101), 8 mixed voices, 1995
Sicut in cælo et in terra (text from the Bible), 8 mixed voices, percussion, 1999
Cântarea nopții (text by Daniel Turcea), soprano, flute, guitar, 2002
Variațiuni-Varis, baritone, ensemble, 2007
Privighetoarea (text by Ignatie Grecu), soprano, piano, 2015
ELECTROACOUSTIC:
Prima, fixed media, 1996, revised 2002
Cuvântul – The Word, fixed media, 1998
Hău Zăbavă, fixed media, 2005
Zumzet, fixed media (2/8 tracks), c. 2010
Greieri și clopote, fixed media, 2015
DIDACTIC MUSIC:
Piesă, trumpet, string orchestra, 1987
Două legende, string orchestra, 1987
Mozaicul, piano 4 hands, 1993
Dominante, trombone, 2011
FILM SCORE (DIRECTOR):
În spatele istoriei, 2007 (Iulian Capsali)