User:WikiForRoland/sandbox

Robert Flavian (born 3 March 1938, Bucharest, Romania) is a Romanian/Israeli composer and musician. Emigrated to Israel in the '70's best known for composing Symphony, Chamber music, Pop music and Light music.

Biography
From a young age and as a small child in the 40's Robert showed a great interest and attraction to Music. With the love to music, love for learning and perseverance he mastered the piano and amazed his parents and his teachers with his ability to grasp music.

He become one of the youngest students to be accepted to the prestige George Enescu Conservatory of Music in Bucharest and studied in composition section. In 2000 the conservatory has received its present name the National University of Music Bucharest. He than continued to higher education and graduated a master degree in Composition.

But he didn't stop his love to music and sound in gaining masters in composition, in parallel to his music studies he studied Sound Engineering in the Politehnica University of Bucharest and graduated with an MD in engineering.

Radio, Television and Musical recordings
Since his early days as a sound engineer with the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company, Romanian Television and later with the Israel Broadcasting Authority he led hundreds of musical recordings. Many of which have seen daylight.

Theatre music
Among his work in the field of composition he wrote many scene/theatrical music, including-
 * Scene music for the Teatrul Naţional National Theatre Bucharest
 * Scene music for the Ţăndărică Puppet Theatre

Orchestral music
One of his more known orchestral pieces is-
 * The Ballad for Baritone and Orchestra

Opera
In the last few years Mr. Flavian has dedicated his time in writing a fresh style opera and recently has put the pen down to this opera composition named-
 * The TORCH (FACLIA)

Pop and light music
He composed award pop and light music and collaborated over the years with many first-class musicians. Some of his work includes pieces with "Margareta Paslaru" one of Romania multifaceted artist and been supported with texts by "Eugen Rotaru", including -
 * Sa ma ierti

Prizes and awards

 * With his known Romanian compositions Robert was invited to participate in several national and international festivals.
 * Won first prize in Athens, Greece festival
 * Won first prize in Mamaia, Romania festival