Violeta Dinescu

Violeta Dinescu (born 13 July 1953) is a Romanian composer, pianist, and academic teacher, living in Germany since 1982. She has been professor of applied composition at the University of Oldenburg from 1986. Romania Born in Bucharest on 13 July 1953, Dinescu began her studies of music in 1972 at the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory 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. Germany, operas 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, 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 E