This is the website of Romanian born composer Diana Rotaru. Here you can find information about her work and biographical details.
Born in Bucharest, 1981, she studied
composition at the National University
of Music in Bucharest with Ştefan
Niculescu and Dan Dediu. She has a master degree in composition at the same
university. During 2005-2006 she was an
Erasmus student at the “Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse
de Paris” where she studied composition with Frédéric Durieux. She participated
in summer courses such as Voix Nouvelles-Royaumont (2002, 2006) or the
International Bartok Seminary-Szombathely (2003) - thus studying with composers
such as Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Jarrell, Jonathan Harvey, Marco Stroppa.She has won numerous prizes, among
which the “International George Enescu” Prize ex-aequo (Bucharest,2003, 2005),
the “Irino Prize” (Tokyo, 2004) and the “Prometheus Prize-Opera Omnia”
(Bucharest, 2005). Her works have been performed in many European countries and
Japan. In 2005, her work, “Shakti” was among the works recommended at the “International
Rostrum of Composers”, Vienna. Three works on CDs.