Doina Rotaru

Marilena Doinița Rotaru was born in Bucharest and studied with Tiberiu Olah at the Bucharest Conservatory in Bucharest from 1970-1975. In 1991, she continued her studies with Theo Loevendie in Amsterdam. In 1991 she also took a position as a professor at the National University of Music, and has served several times as a guest lecturer in Darmstadt, Germany and the Gaudeamus Composers Workshop in Amsterdam. Her music has been commissioned and performed internationally in Europe, Asia and the Americas. She is a member of the Romanian Composers Union.[1]

In 1986, Rotaru published an article with Liviu Comes on the counterpoint techniques of Johann Sebastian Bach and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina in Editura Muzicala.

• Seven prizes from the Romanian Composers Union (1981, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1997, 2001)
• Prize of the Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences (1986)
• First Prize in the GEDOK Competition in Mannheim (1994, for Symphony II).

Besides orchestral and chamber works, Rotaru also composers choral and instructional pieces. Selected works include:

• Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, 1984
• Symphony I for large orchestra, 1985
• Métabole II for clarinet and orchestra, 2001
• Sonata for cello, 1978
• String Quartet No. 1, 1981
• Trias for mezzo-soprano, flute, piano, 1999
• The Crossroads of the Poppies for piano, 1980
• Sonatina for piano 1981[2]

A number of recordings of Rotaru's music are available, including:

• Symphony II. Ludovic Bács/Radio Bucharest Orchestra (Editura Muzicala: EM 007)
• Over time. Yoshikazu Iwamoto, shakuhachi; Pierre-Yves Artaud, bass flute (Editura Muzicala: EM 1002)
• Concerto, ‘Seven Levels to the Sky’. Daniel Kientzy, saxophones; Emil Simon/Cluj-Napoca Philharmonic (Nova Musica: NMCD 5105)

• Artistic biography and list of works
• Biographical sketch and list of works at The Living Composers Project.