Pred POPOVICI
- composer -
Born on the 27th of July, 1948, in Braila (Romania).
Phone/Fax: +(40 21)240.64.88(h)
E-mail: fpopo@yahoo.com
EDUCATION
Graduated from the Academy of Music in Bucharest,
in 1972.
Studies in composition with Stefan Niculescu and Aurel Stroe.
Participant in the Darmstaedter Kurse fr Neue Musik (1978, 1980,
1982), studying, there, among others, with Cristobal Halffter, Helmut
Lachenman, Brian Ferneyhough. Also invited to the Institute for
Electroacoustical Researches in Berlin, in 1983.
Three stages at IRCAM, Paris, in 1990, 1993 and 1996. In 1993,
invited by Centre "Yannis Xenakis" (Les Ateliers UPIC), Massy,
to write a work for string quartet and electronic sounds (collaboration
with Gerard Pape, Curtis Roads, Brigitte Robindor).
EXPERIENCE
Teacher of theory of music and counterpoint
at the "George Enescu High school of Music" in Bucharest; teacher of composition
at the Academy of Music in Iasi. Music advisor at the Ministry of Culture.
Coordinator of the "George Enescu" International Festival. Founder
of the International Courses for computer music at the European Centre
of Culture in Sinaia, Romania. Member of the MATHEMATICS & MUSIC
RESEARCH GROUP of the Romanian Academy.
Lecturer at the TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITT in Berlin, in 1993;
at the London University, in 1996 and 1997; in Canada, in 2000.
Member of the jury of the VALENTINO BUCCHI Contest, Rome, 1995, 1996 and
2001.
Musical critic and musicologist with articles and theoretical
contributions that appeared in the most important newspapers and magazines
in Romania and abroad (Secolul 20, Romania literara, Contemporanul, Neue
Zeitschrift fr Musik-Schott, Der Standard-Viena etc.). Also, author of
broadcasts for Radio Bucharest, Sender Freies Berlin, Radio Bremen, Radio
Belgrade.
Member of the Romanian Union of Composers and member of GEMA (Germany).
Works commissioned and performed by the most important orchestras and
ensembles in Romania (National Philharmonic, National Radio Orchestra,
MUSIC NOVA, ARS NOVA, HYPERION, ARCHAEUS, MADRIGAL choir etc. both inside
and abroad. An opera, "...G..." (based on a shortstory by Mircea Eliade)
was commissioned by the PRO MUSICA Festival in Bremen and world premiered
in May 1988.
Works performed in: Athens, Belgrade, Budapest, Prague, Moscow, Warsaw,
Rome, Vienna, Paris, London, Washington, Boston, Montreal and Ottawa.
Editors: The Romanian Composers Publishing House; Israeli Music Publishers,
Jerusalem. Records edited by ELECTRECORD, Bucharest.
LIST of WORKS
Operas
"...G..." (based on a short story by Mircea Eliade).
/ 1987 - 1988. Durata: 1h 30' ca.
Note: Is the synthesis of different compositional and technical
procedures used in several previous works. The aim of the score is to
adjust there procedures to an inconvenient literary subject, in which
the fantastic plays an important role.
Orchestral works
Sinfonietta / 1972 - 1973 . - Durata: 20' ca.
SEQUENCIES (for 11 strings) / 1977 . - Durata: 11' ca.
Note: Uses the properties of the Fibonacci series in organising and transforming the sound textures. All the parameters of the piece are based on the calculus with the sectio aurea proportions.
MELOS I; II; III (for violin; string quartet; orchestra) (1977-1979)
HETEROSYNTHESIS I; II (for chamber ensemble; brass ensemble) (1979)
Note: That use the heterophonical syntax (Chomsky sensu) in order to organise the musical syntax. Some topological mappings are also used for controlling the macrostructure of the pieces.
CLARINET CONCERTO (1980-1982)
Note: Represents the first experience with some procedures taken from acoustics and electroacoustics, i.e. the ring-modulation, the frequency-modulation and the complex spectra of harmonics.
INTRODUCTION TO THE ANATOMY OF SOUND I; II; IV (for double-bass; chamber ensemble; string ensemble, with or without live-electronics) (1981-1983)
Note: Is a series of scores that go further in the exploration of the inner life of the sound. Some procedures (like the white-noise, the simulation of complex audio spectra by means of the frequency-modulation etc.) are taker from the electro-acoustical practice and implemented in the field of instrumental music.
D'AL UN CONCERTO GROSSO (for solo wind instrument, five soloists, orchestra and electronic sounds) (1986-1989)
Note: Tries to offer an instrumental and acoustical equivalent of the well-known computer technique, that of samplers. Sound forms, timbral effects, mappings of different harmonic and/or enharmonic spectra are shaped on the basis of a sampling-like method.
ITINERAIRES A L'INTERIEUR DU SON I; II (for different chamber ensembles) (1990-1993)
Note: Extend the possibilities of enlarging the concept of musical syntax by means of the generalisation of the transformational grammars (built up, in their turn, on the basis of some classical structures, taken from Mozart), implemented in the procedures of the electroacoustics (i.e. the ring-modulation, the frequency-modulation and the reject-lock).
TRIANGOLO, APERTO (for 3 Orchestral Groups, 3 Soloists & Electronic Sounds) (1999)
Fragment of Score
Audio file: the
electronic part (fragment 6'27") 
Copyright: cIMeC