The month of March started with a concert by the family of pianists Manuela, Dragoș, Ioan and Dinu Mihăilescu, together with the Banatul Philharmonic Orchestra, a concert dedicated to the great composer JSBach, conductor Cezar Verlan.
An occasion of great joy was also the winning of the symphonic music prize of the Union of Composers and Musicologists from Romania (UCMR) 2020, for the work "Themes/Anthemes" by our colleague from the Faculty of Music and Theatre, the composer Gabriel Almași. "The title Themes/Anthemes represents a play on words between Themes - which means "theme" or "castrum regium Themes", as Timișoara is mentioned in early medieval sources, and Anthemes - the lack of a theme. This play also suggests the form of the piece – an interplay between the (musical) theme or themes and its absence. The unexpected appearance of a quote from Tchaikovsky is the contribution of my little girl, Anna, who came into my room as I was writing, and from her room the waltz from Swan Lake could be heard. I marked the moment in the score...". You can watch an interview about this award in the following link: https://youtu.be/BkZC7HYdcoc .
Also, in the month of March, the first audition of the work of the university associate's colleague took place. Dr. Gabriel Mălăncioiu Los cien enamorados for Bass and Shruti-Box in Berlin, as part of the "Unerhörte Musik" concert series, on March 23, performed by Martin Wistinghausen. Work resumed on March 27 and 28 in Solingen and Altenberger. On April 18, the first audition of the choral work will take place Luftagogy, by the same author, by the ensemble AuditivVokal Dresden as part of the "Modern" Cluj International Festival.
The students from the specializations in Theater continued to play in the performances of the National Theater in Timișoara, in live-streaming format: master's students Darius Zet, Oana Ilincai, Raoul Horn, Lucian Matei, together with the actresses Laura Avarvari and Claudia Ieremia, teaching staff in FMT.
The students from the Acting major in German participated on March 28, under the coordination of lect. university Dr. Ecaterina Căpraru, on the show in German from Radio Timișoara, with Catholic Easter Poems and Stories, participating students: Maria Gagea: Der Charmeur, Monika Minder; Maria Gheorghiu/Rya von Sternheim: Er ist's, Eduard Möricke; Raluca Ille: Ostern, Norbert van Tiggelen; Jacqueline Kohl: Frühlingsträume, Anita Menger; Ostern, Joseph v. Eichendorff; year III German language Sabine Oschanitzky: Osterfreude, Anita Menger.
The month of April marks the first two meetings of the educational project musiCOOLt, initiated by lect. university dr Gabriel Almași and associate professor Dr. Gabriel Mălăncioiu, which brings together seven composers from Timișoara, Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca and Iași:
- The march of trains in music - Gabriel Almaşi, April 8
- Mierla staccato – Gabriel Mălăncioiu, April 22
Below you will also find our invitation to participate in the event:
"Let's meet new music! We are waiting for you every other week, on Thursday evenings, from 19 p.m., starting on April 8 on the ZOOM platform. We are seven composers from the four centers (university centers) - Diana Rotaru and DanDe Popescu from Bucharest, Șerban Marcu and Cristian Bence-Muk from Cluj-Napoca, Ciprian Ion from Iași, Gabriel Almași and Gabriel Mălăncioiu from Timișoara and we are starting to promote uninhibited of some important music from the last century, lively, fascinating music, close to the times we live in, to modern man. We propose to arouse your curiosity with topics such as "Trains in music", "Mierla staccato", "How to prepare a piano: recipes for a gourmet ear", "Choir as you have never heard it before", "The curious case of musical minimalism : what we hear and what we listen", "Intertextuality - the story behind the music of the XNUMXth and XNUMXst centuries" and "Religious music in the creation of contemporary composers".
Anyone curious between 16 and 116 years old is welcome!
Follow the MUSICOOLT page for dates links.
ZOOM IN and listen to good music!
PS(ssst): No prior musical training is necessary!"
Lect. university Dr. Adrian Korek,
Faculty of Music and Theater
