Doina Rotaru facts for kids

Doina Rotaru (born on September 14, 1951, in Bucharest) is a talented composer from Romania. She is well-known for creating beautiful music for orchestras and smaller groups of instruments.

About Doina Rotaru

Doina Rotaru was born in Bucharest, Romania. She loved music from a young age. From 1970 to 1975, she studied music at the Bucharest Conservatory. This is a special school where people learn to become professional musicians and composers. Her teacher there was Tiberiu Olah.

Later, in 1991, she continued her studies in Amsterdam with another famous composer, Theo Loevendie. In the same year, she started teaching music herself at the National University of Music in Bucharest. She has also been a special guest teacher in places like Darmstadt, Germany and at the Gaudeamus Composers Workshop in Amsterdam.

Doina Rotaru's music is very popular. People have asked her to write new pieces, and her music has been played all over the world. You can hear her compositions in Europe, Asia, and North and South America. She is also a member of the Romanian Composers Union, a group for professional music creators in Romania.

In 1986, Doina Rotaru wrote an article with Liviu Comes. It was about how famous composers like Johann Sebastian Bach and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina used counterpoint in their music. Counterpoint is a way of combining different melodies at the same time.

You can find her music on several record labels. These include Stradivarius, Nova Musica, and Maguelone Music.

Awards for Her Music

Doina Rotaru has won many important awards for her musical works. These prizes show how much her talent is recognized.

• She won seven prizes from the Romanian Composers Union. These were in 1981, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1997, and 2001.
• In 1986, she received a special prize from the Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• She also won First Prize in the GEDOK Competition in Mannheim, Germany, in 1994. This award was for her piece called Symphony II.

Her Musical Works

Doina Rotaru writes many different kinds of music. She creates pieces for large orchestras and for smaller groups of instruments, known as chamber works. She also composes music for choirs and even instructional pieces to help people learn music.

Here are some of her well-known works:

• Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, written in 1984.
• Symphony I for a large orchestra, from 1985.
• Métabole II for clarinet and orchestra, created in 2001.
• Sonata for cello, from 1978.
• String Quartet No. 1, written in 1981.
• Trias for mezzo-soprano (a type of singer), flute, and piano, from 1999.
• The Crossroads of the Poppies for piano, composed in 1980.
• Sonatina for piano, from 1981.

You can also listen to recordings of Doina Rotaru's music. Some of these include:

• Symphony II. This was performed by the Radio Bucharest Orchestra, led by Ludovic Bács.
• Over time. This recording features Yoshikazu Iwamoto playing the shakuhachi and Pierre-Yves Artaud playing the bass flute.
• Concerto, ‘Seven Levels to the Sky’. This piece features Daniel Kientzy on saxophones, with the Cluj-Napoca Philharmonic conducted by Emil Simon.