Ungureanu Mariana

About

Born in the Republic of Moldova, naturalized Romanian, Mariana Ungureanu studied at the Bucharest Conservatory, where she won first prizes in composition, orchestration, music history, music aesthetics, counterpoint, and harmony. She also studied composition at the Hogeschool voor Wetenschap & Kunst in Leuven (Belgium). She holds a master's degree in musicology from Sorbonne University in Paris. Mariana Ungureanu participated in several masterclasses and took individual lessons with Hugues Dufourt, Beat Furrer, Pierluigi Billone, Georg Friedrich Haas, Rebecca Saunders, Klaus Lang, Mark André, Chaya Czernowin, Peter Eotvos, Michael Jarrell, Marco Stroppa, and Georges Aperghis. She received artistic residencies from Festival du Carré in Belgium, Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, DRAC Alsace, and Herrenhaus Edenkoben-Villa Musica in Germany. She also attended IRCAM workshops within the Acanthes Academy in Metz. Her music has been performed by various ensembles and orchestras such as Ensemble Aleph, S:I:C, Divertimento, Interface, International Academy of Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Aventure, Ensemble Antico/Moderno, Ensemble Le Pli, Ensemble Experimental Freiburg, Orchestre de Chambre de Wallonie, and Orchestre National de Lorraine. It has been performed at festivals such as: Clé du Soleil (Lille, France), Hamburger Klangwerktage (Hamburg, Germany), Atlas Festival (Netherlands), Bergamo Musica Festival (Italy), and Impuls Festival (Graz, Austria), among others. Mariana Ungureanu has received grants from the Ministry of Research in France, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania, and the Ministry of the Flemish Community (Belgium). She is a laureate of the European program "Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes" and received the "George Enescu" Composition Prize for chamber music in 2005. Mariana Ungureanu is the winner of the Armel Opera Festival 2015 Composers Competition with the opera project "Mathias and the Storyteller of Truth." Her musical catalog is mainly based on acoustic chamber music and also includes two concertos, a symphonic piece "Le Pas de l'Enfer", a piece for large orchestra "Anagrammes" and the "Ballet Suite Maestro and Margaret". Recent compositions include: two musical theatre pieces, works for solo instruments with electronic components, "Auctor", electroacoustic music (for the choreographic performance by Marie-Laure Agrapart & Cie.) and the chamber opera Out of SEA (in collaboration with two composers), based on the novel of the same name by Sławomir Mrożek. She is currently working on the opera Dorian Gray. A quest for eternal youth, based on the famous novel by Oscar Wilde. The premiere is scheduled for June 2017 at the "Ohana" Auditorium in Paris. Mariana Ungureanu's musical aesthetic is based on various themes related mainly to nature and mythology. Her recent compositions are influenced by the Arte Povera artist Giuseppe Penone, as well as by the physical processes of electricity.