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Thomas Beimel, composer, musicologist, violist was born in 1967 in Essen, Germany. Starting as a viola player, he finalized music studies and instrumental pedagogics at Hochschule für Musik im Rheinland. In 1989 he founded together with other musicians the ensemble Partita Radicale, specializing in the field between improvisation and composition. Since 1993, the ensemble worked with outstanding Romanian composers (there are two CDs with contemporary Romanian music released by sonoton, Munich). Olguţa Lupu studied piano, then graduated in composition in 1993, with Tiberiu Olah. She is a member of the Union of Romanian Composers and Musicologists, and Doctor in Musicolog. Her favourite topic is the music of the 20th century: her papers were included in different national and international conferences and symposia, she participated in radio broadcasts and published several studies. She coordinated the project Tiberiu Olah şi multiplele faţete ale postmodernismului (2008), including a symposium with international participation. Author of two books: Music in the First Part of the 20th Century - Rhythmic-temporal Hypostases, and Music in the Middle of 20th Century - A Rhythmic-temporal Perspective. Co-author and editor of the volumes Tiberiu Olah – Restituiri and Tiberiu Olah şi multiplele faţete ale postmodernismului (2008). Peter Szaunig was born in 1933 in Kronstadt/Brasov in Romania. After graduating in engineering, he studied music pedagogy and pianoforte at the Bucharest Conservatory, where he attented the masterclass of Silvia Șerbescu. Parallel to his didactic activity as piano teacher at the musical Gymnasium at Hermannstadt, he regularly performed in concerts with the State Philharmonic Orchestra in the same city. Since 1968 he carried an intense journalistic activity asa music critic and essayist, writing for German und Romanian newspapers and magazines. Alice Tacu studies musicology at the National Music University of Bucharest. While her bachelor and master degree encompass mostly topics within the 20th century music and aesthetics, her PhD thesis will focus on the history of crisis in music, particularly in the last hundred years. She writes program notes for Romanian festivals like “George Enescu” International Festival, Săptămâna Internaţională a Muzicii Noi (The International Week for New Music), and also articles for some magazines and online sources of information about contemporary music: Acord, Actualitatea muzicală, „No14 Plus Minus” Contemporary Music Journal and Contemporania. Periodically she presents a series of educational concerts called Prietenii Muzicii.
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