Rucsandra Popescu

About

Biography | Pianist | Composer | Conducter

Her work was played by various music ensembles (Arhaeus, Duo Sägezahn, Trio Contraste - Romania, Ensemble Recherche, Bremer Philharmonie, Musiques Nouvelles - Belgium, St.Petri Domsingschule Bremen) in Romania and also in Germany, Belgium. As a young composer, she was awarded the following prizes:

- 2002 - second prize - Paul Constantinescu for the Sonata for Violin and Piano
- 2003 - special prize - Carl von Ossietzky Choir Competition forTriptichon in nuce
- 2004 - first prize – Paul Constantinescu for Idealuri for choir
- 2006 - second prize - HAG Composition Competition for Glockenspiel in Böttcherstraße Bremen for Gioc
- 2008 - Laudation - International Women Composers Festival and Competition Unna for Trio Duelo
- 2008 - special prize - The Festival European Sacred Music Schaebisch Gmuend for ...und hast mich lieb... for choir
- 2010 - selected selected and nominated togheter with other 11 young composers at the fourth edition of the Young Composers’ Forum - [tactus] in Brussels and Mons (Belgium) for Contraverse

She obtained several scholarships:
- Erasmus-Socrates for one year in Oldenburg (Germany) in Violeta Dinescu´s composition class and conducting with Johannes von Hoff
- participated twice in the composition Workshop in Bayreuth: 2002 with Dimitri Terzakis and 2004 with Peter Hamel, where she composed the music for a scene from the silent Film “Faust” by F.W.Murnau

- 2005 – she wrote Momenti for Trio Contraste and first performed in Köln (31.03.05 Frau Musica(nova) die rumänsichen Komponistinnen) and on Deutschen Rundfunk radiocasted
- 2005/06 she wrote together with five other young composers from Younghi Pagh Paan´s composition class the opera Unterwegs for the Bremer Theatre (opening night on 17.06.06)
- 2006/07 - DAAD - Scholarship - Studienabschlussbehilfe
- 2007 she wrote for 60th Anniverary of the re-establishment - City Bremen - Signal B, played by the Bremer Philharmonie
- 2006, 2007 she participated in the Workshop - Donaueschinger Musiktage
- 2007/08 she wrote Contraverse for Ensemble Recherche (first performence on 22.02.08)
- 2009 she wrote Beethoveniada for HFK Orchestra, performed in Rottenburg and Bremen
- 2009 she wrote Pinocchio´s World - Children Opera for Glocke in Bremen
- 2010 she wrote Moldavieren for Bremer Philharmonie Orchester
- 2010/2011 she wrote far..fälle for Ensemble Neue Flötentöne
- 2011 - Contraverse was performed in Mons (Belgium) by the Musiques nouvelles Ensemble, Conducter Jean-Paul Dessy
- 2011 she wrote in nomine for St.Petri Domsingschule Bremen
- 2011 she wrote Iridescendo for „Klingendes Atelier“ - Atelier Frauke Alber, Bremen