User:Amgd15roxanas/Dora Cojocaru

Dora Cojocaru, born in 1963 in Baia Mare, is a Romanian composer. She began to study music in 1970 at the Music Highschool in her birth town and after that, at the Gheorghe Dima National Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca, she studied composition with Cornel Țăranu. While in Cluj, she went in artistical tours in Italy (1983), Greece (1984) and Bulgaria (1985) as a member of the Cappella Transylvanica chamber choir (1983-1986).

In 1986 she moved to her home town, Baia Mare and started teaching at the General School, nr. 20 (now the Art Collegium), also mentoring the Lira Musical Circle. In 1990, she went back to the Cluj Conservatory as assistent, gradually becoming a lectorer and teaching musical forms in the same institution. In 1991 she started perfecting in musical composition at Hochschule für Musik in Koln with Paul Mefano, Johannes Fritsch and Dieter de la Motte, finishing in 1995. She gathered many awards and scholarships: Tempus in 1991, D.A.A.D. in 1992, Soros in 1992, Heinrich Boll in 1993, E.M.E.F.A. in 1993, Rotary Club in 1993, Gaudeamus in 1994, Atelierhaus Worpswdede in 1995, Socrate/Erasmus in 1999.

She actively participated in congresses, conferences, scientific comunications and signed publications in specialized magazines. Her creation (chamber, choral, symphonic, vocal-symphonic and opera music) is promoted through radio recordings, TV and CD. She also colaborated with WDR 5, Koln. As a doctoral thesis in Musicology/Stylistic at "Gheorghe Dima" National Music Academy she concieved and presented the work Creația lui Gyorgy Ligeti în contextul stilistic al secolului XX (printed in Cluj in 1999), the first book about Ligeti in the Romanian musicology, obtaining the UCMR award.

In 2002 Dora Cojocaru moved in Montreal, Canada, where she remaind since then. Between 2002 and 2009 she worked as an associate professor at McGill and Concordia Universities of Montreal, teaching classes and seminaries for all the universitary levels (bachelor, master and doctorate): composition, music after 1945, Gyorgy Ligeti, instrumental theatre and orchestral literature. In the same time, she took part in colloquiums, organised by the Musical Theory department and held piano, musical theory, harmony, counterpoint and musical analysis classes at the Pierrefonds Cultural Center and LAMBDA Academy in Montreal, as a cultural activities specialist.

WORKS

Her works were performed in over 160 concerts and modern music festivals in Romania, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Ukraine, Republic of Moldavia, Italy, France, Switzerland, S.U.A, Canada, Japan, Korea, Mexico.


 * Chamber Music

Trei lieduri [Three songs] / for voice and piano (lyrics by Anghel Dumbrãveanu) / 1987

Eleusis / for two percussions and piano / 1988

Cantos / for voice and cello / 1990

Panglici [Lacing] / sextet (flute, clarinet, horn, violin, cello, piano) / 1992

Cantos ll / for voice and clarinets / 1992

Poarta soarelui [The gate of the sun] / for flute, drum and ucelli / 1992

Trills / for string trio / 1992

A3 / for clarinet, piano and percussion / 1993

Sh’ma Itamar / for flute and guitar / 1993

Cvartet de coarde nr.1 / for string quartet / 1994

Epitaf ll [Epitaph II] / for piano / 1988 / rev. 1995

Concertare / for brass quartet / 1995

Fragmenti / for trombone / 1996

Cinci momente efemere [Five ephemeral moments] / for woodwind quintet / 1996

'''Fragmenti... pro musica nova''' / for clarinets, piano and percussion / 1996

'''Cvartet de coarde nr. 2 …esser loro Padre, Guida ed Amico!''' / for string quartet / 1996

...on revient toujours!  / for clarinet and chamber ansamble / 1996

Refrene [Chorus] / for clarinet / 1997

Red/Rouge/Rot / for oboe / 1998

Qu.-Sax.  / for saxophones quartet / 1998

Short Poem for T.J. / for four voices / 1999

Sh’ma Itamar / for flute and bassoon /1998

Trio Violinissimo / for string trio /1998

Gymels for Gemini / for viola da gamba and lute /1999

Briefe nach Deutschland / for cello (with an alternative for viola da gamba) / 2000

Amintiri din Apuseni [Memories from Apuseni] / for flute / 2000

Die andere Seite der Stille / for oboe, violin, viola and cello / 2001

Basler Konzert for trombone and chamber ansamble / 2002

De doinit [For singing] / for flute and harpsichord / 2003

Etudes oubliées / for clarinets quartet or bassoons quartet / 2003

Virelais et Virelangues / for voice and chamber ansamble / 2004

Clopote si orgi [Bells and organs] / for organ, two organ positives and chime / 2004

Schattenspiel / for oboe and clarinet / 2004

Venedig / for soprana, traversier flute, baroque cello and harpsichord / 2005

Im Garten / for soprano, tenor, traversier flute, baroque cello and harpsichord / 2006

Sunflower Ritual / for vibraphone, marimba, tom-toms and chimes / 2006

Insects, Bugs and Other Species / for clarinets trio / 2007

Three Sketches for a Fussy Winter / for chamber ansamble / 2008)

Dans in doi [Dance for two] / for traversier flute and harphsichord / 2008

Polovragi / for solo percussion / 2010

Chemări [Callings] / for alphorn (or trumpet) and organ / 2014

Mnemosyne / for solo clarinet /2014

A.D.A. Trio / for trumpet, violin and piano / 2016

Cicadamania / for clarinet, trombone, piano, violin and cello / 2018


 * Choral music

Trei coruri [Three choirs] / for children choir (folk lyrics) / 1984

Suitã de cântece pentru copii [Children`s song suite] / for children choir and piano (folk lyrics) / 1987

Dupã melci [Chasing Snails] / for children choir (lyrics by Ion Barbu) / 1987

Nu sunt singur [I`m not alone]  / for mixt choir (lyrics by Lucian Blaga) / 1988

Doctorul Aumãdoare [The Aumădoare (it hurts me) doctor] (scene music for phuppet theater) / 1988

Colindă (Ieși, Ioane, pân’ afară) / for mixt choir (folk lyrics) / 2010

Madame S. - Gros Grand Gras Grain - Kiki et Coco / for mixt choir (based on word games) 2018


 * Symphonic, concert, vocal-symphonic and opera music

Structuri [Structures] / for orchestra / 1985

Luci, soare, luci [shine, sun, shine] / cantata for choir and children orchestra (folk lyrics) / 1986

Bocet pentru Manole [Wailing for Manole] / cantata for two singers and instrumental ansamble / 1987

'''Vitalitate! [Vitality!]''' / for string orchestra / 1991

Riga Crypto și lapona Enigel [King Crypto and The Lapp Enigel] / chamber opera (lyrics by Ion Barbu) / 1994

Galgenlieder in der Nacht  / chamber cantata for voice and instrumental ansamble/ 1995

Dați-mi lampa lui Aladin [] / chamber cantata (lyrics by Emil and Dan Botta, Georg Trakl, Maria Rilke si Ady Endre) / 1998

Violinissimo / for chamber orchestra / 1998

Concert pentru percuție și orchestră [Concert for percussion and orchestra] / 1999

Concert pentru oboi și orchestră [Concert for oboe and orchestra] / 2001

O mein Bruder / chamber cantata (lyrics by Emil and Dan Botta, Georg Trakl and Maria Rilke) – new version / 2006