Violeta Dinescu

Violeta Dinescu
Violeta Dinescu (2005)
Born	(1953-07-13) 13 July 1953 (age 63) Bucharest, Romania
Education	Ciprian Porumbescu, Bucharest
Occupation	Composer Pianist Professor of composition
Organization	University of Oldenburg

Violeta Dinescu (born 13 July 1953 in Bucharest) is a Romanian composer, pianist and professor, living in Germany since 1982.

Violeta Dinescu began her studies of music in 1972 at the conservatory Ciprian Porumbescu in Bucharest, composition with Myriam Marbe. In 1978 she received her master's degree, with distinction. She also received diplomas in the fields of Composition, Piano and Pedagogics. She started teaching at the George Enescu Music School in Bucharest, conducting courses in Music history, Aesthetics, Counterpoint, Harmony and Piano. In 1980 she joined the Romanian Composers Union.

In 1982 she moved to West Germany. Her first opera Hunger und Durst after Eugène Ionesco was premiered in Freiburg in 1986.Der 35. Mai (The 35th of May, or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas), a children's opera after Erich Kästner was composed in 1986, Eréndira after a short story by Gabriel García Márquez in 1992 and performed at the third Munich Biennale, Schachnovelle (The Royal Game) after Stefan Zweig in 1994. The operas have been performed at leading opera houses, as Der 35. Mai at the Staatsoper Hamburg in 2004. She worked for the Austrian theatre ARBOS on two music theatre projects, "The Singing of The Fools About Europe" and "The Concert of Birds".Herzriss, an opera in nuce for voice and percussion after Homer, Ionesco and Márquez, premiered in 2005.