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Video Concerts Serban Nichifor Solo Cello Structural Variations by Dwight Winenger
ANNOUNCEMENT:
FILARMONICA
"GEORGE ENESCU"
Sala mica a Ateneului 29 ianuarie 2008, ora 19
NUOVA MUSICA CONSONANTE -
LIVING MUSIC FOUNDATION (USA)
In stil latino-american...
Cvartetul de chitare "Contrapunctus"
HANELORE MOCANU, GABRIEL BROSTEANU,
CALIN GRIGORIU, RADU MICULITA
Program
Heitor Villa-Lobos Aria din Bachianas Brasileiras nr. 5
Jacques Leduc Tango - p.a.a.
Raoul De Smet Brabo-Tango - p.a.a.
Paulo Bellinati Baiao de Gude
Maximo Diego Pujol Suite Buenos Aires
Kurt Weill/David Webber Zuhalterbalade - p.a.a
Boudewijn Buckinx Tango - p.a.a.
Serban Nichifor The Last Tango - p.a.a.
Celso Machado 5 Piezas Populare Brasileiras
Maximo Diego Pujol 5 Piezas Artesanales
23.04.2007"
Links - Bach, "The Art of Fugue" - new guitars ensemble version in concert – on YouTube
Prof.Dr. Serban NICHIFOR, National University of Music Bucharest (Romania) - Candidate for the Election of the Chairman - EUROPEAN CHAMBER MUSIC TEACHERS ASSOCIATION (ECMTA)
Serban Nichifor
Composer and Cellist
Born: August 25, 1954, in Bucharest (Romania); Mother: Dr. Livia Nichifor, physician; Father: Dr.
Ermil Nichifor, physician,
founder and conductor (1954-1997) of the “Bucharest Physicians` Orchestra”; Married to Liana
Alexandra, composer
Studies National University of Music, Bucharest, Doctor in Musicology
Theology Faculty, University of Bucharest
International courses of composition at Darmstadt, Weimar, Breukelen and Munchen
USIA Stipendium (USA)
Present Position
Professor at the National University of Music, Bucharest (Chamber Music Department);
Member of UCMR (Romania), SABAM (Belgium), ECPMN (Holland)
Vice-president of the ROMANIA-BELGIUM Association
Cellist of the Duo INTERMEDIA <../general/duointermedia.htm> and co-director of the NUOVA
MUSICA
CONSONANTE-LIVING MUSIC FOUNDATION INC.(U.S.A) Festival, with Liana ALEXANDRA
Selected Works OPERA, SYMPHONIC, VOCAL-SYMPHONIC AND CONCERTANTE MUSIC:
"Constellations" for Orchestra (1977)
Symphony I "Shadows" (1980)
Cantata "Sources" (1977)
Cantata "Gloria Heroum Holocausti" (1978)
Opera "Miss Christina" (libretto by Mircea ELIADE,1981)
Symphony II "Via Lucis" (1985)
Symphony III "American Symphony - I" (1986)
Symphony IV "American Symphony - II" (1987)
Symphony V "Pro Patria" (1987)
Symphony VI "Time Archways" (1988)
Cantata "Remember" (1988)
"Missa da Requiem" (1990)
Chamber-Opera "Talaria" (libretto by Etienne DE SADELEER, 1994)
Cantata "Per CHRISTUM" (1997)
"Concerto GRIEGoriano" for Piano and Orchestra (1997)
Chamber-Opera "Le Martyre de Saint Claude DEBUSSY" (libretto after Claude DEBUSSY and
E.A.POE, 1999)
"Un Certain Instant" for Cello and Orchestra (2001)
CHAMBER, CHORAL AND VOCAL MUSIC
"Postludium" per Organo (1975)
"Sorcova" per Coro Misto a capella (1995)
Quartetto per Archi I - "Anamorphose" (1976)
"Carols" per Trombone e Percussione (1978)
"Invocatio" per Flauto e Celesta (1979)
"Canto di Speranza" per Flauto,Violino,Viola,Cello e Pianoforte (1981)
"Onirophonie" per Fl., Vn.e Pf. (1982)
"Chanson d'Antan" per Vn.e Pf.(1983)
"Carnyx" per Clarinetto (1984)
"Tango for Yvar" per Pf.(1984)
Quartetto per Archi II - "Vallons de l'Oubli" (1984)
"Aprite le porte di questo castel" per Coro Maschile (1984)
"Morendo" per Cb. e Pianoforte (1985)
"6 Melodies Irlandaises d'Amerique" per 2 Ob.,C.i. e 2 Fg. (1985)
"Czarna Rosa" per Mezzo-Soprano e Pf. (1986)
"7 Canti Rumeni di Natale" per 4 Trombe, 4 Tromboni ed Organo (1986)
"Horn Call Rag" per Corno e Pf. (1986)
"AVE MARIA" per Soprano ed Organo (1987)
"Isola di Euthanasios" - Sonata "sopra acqua e pietra" per Pianoforte (1988)
"Transgressio" per Fl.,Ob. e Fg. (1989)
"Battuta" per Percussione (1989)
"Lacrimosa" per Tenore e Pf. (1989)
"Meditatio"per Organo (1990)
Missa "Actio Gratiarum Oecumenica" per Coro Misto a capella (1991)
"NATALIS DOMINI" per Coro Misto a capella (1992)
"Isihia" per Cello (1992)
"Epiphania" per Cello e Pianoforte (1993)
"Rorate Caeli" per Soprano ed Orchestra da Camera (1994)
"Medium per Arpa" (1995)
"Medium per Flauto" (1995)
"3 Christmas German Chorals" for Organ (1997)
"Hommage a DEBUSSY" per 2 Pf. - ossia Pf. e Nastro Magnetico (1998)
"La Nuit Obscure" per Orchestra da Camera (1998)
"Invocation a Themis" per Sax.Alto (2001)
"Isihia" for violoncello and tape (2002)
Works published at
Musical Publishing House, Bucharest
Edition Modern, Munchen
"Pro musica Studium", Roma
"Quadrivium Music Press", New York
"Dohr Verlag", Koln a.s.o.
Edition SCORE-ON-LINE (France)
Works played and recorded in
Romania, Belgium, Holland, USA, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Poland, England, Austria, Japan,
Greece, a.s.o.
Affiliations
Member in good standing of the Research Board of Advisors of the American Biographical
Institute, USA
Member of the European Conference for Promoters of New Music (see
Nuova Musica
Consonante)
Member of Living Music Foundation Inc., USA www.dwightwinenger.net/lmfhome.htm Prizes and Awards
1977 - First Prize GAUDEAMUS, Amsterdam
1977 - International Prize, Tours, France
1978 - "Press Prize", Evian
1979 - International Prize ISCM, Athens, Greece
1980, 1982, 1988 - Prizes of the Romanian Composers and Musicologists' Union
1980 - "Diego ORTIZ", Toledo
1982 - "George Enesco" Prize of the Romanian Academy
1983 - Urbana-Illinois
1984, 1993 - Trento
1985 - "Valentino BUCCHI", Roma
1986 - "Musica Antiqua Europae Orientalis", Bydgoszcz
1988 - ISCM, Hong-Kong
1994 - Jihlava
1996 - Karlsruhe
1997 - Koln
1998 - Newtown-Wales
1998 - Birmingham-Alabama
1998 - Bourges
2002 - "Man of the Year", American Biographical Institute, USA
PRESS REVIEWS
SUNDAY TIMES (London, 18.08.1977) - "The First Prize went to a 22-year-old Romanian Serban
NICHIFOR, for his
, played by the Gaudeamus String Quartet in the smaller hall of the Amsterdam
Concertgebouw. Its virtually silent
beginning, seemingly addressed to the eye rather than the ear, already hinted at a spatial element
which later furnished a valid and
charming feature of its ending. The visual gradually became audible, and the mosaic of sound
soon acquired continuity as a few
folk-tune motifs were set in relief. This innocuous, inextravagant, musically and visually direct
essay in quartet-writing deserved
recognition and won an ovation !" (Felix APRAHAMIAN)
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG (09.06.1978) - "Die Presse-Jury bedachte das
rumanische Quartet
mit einem Preis fur die ausgezeichnete Interpretation der attraktiven des jungen
Komponisten Serban NICHIFOR"
(Bernd LEUKERT)
SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG (27/28.05.1978) - "...Sein betiteltes Stuck exerziert
die verschidensten
technischen Affekte und Effekte auf den vier Instrumenten und zerfasert den Streicherklang
schliesslich auf augenfallige Weise..."
(Albrecht ROESELER)
DIE PRESSE (Wien,26.05.1978) - "...die originelle von Serban NICHIFOR..."
(Olga OBRY)
LA VOIX (11.05.1978) - "...le Quatuor du Roumain Serban NICHIFOR,oeuvre
d'une redoutable
complexite, mais d'une indeniable valeur..." (Georges BERNAND)
NRC HANDELSBLAD (Amsterdam,13.09.1977) - "...Serban NICHIFOR,in sijn strijkwartet - een
brok onstuimig muziek
maken - integreert hij vijf Roemeense melodieen uit Transsylvanie en past hij als een soort van
harmonische basis evenees vijf
Roemeens-orthodoxe hymnes toe. Let wel: hij doet dat in een uit gespreken avant-gardistisch
klanggemiddelde ! Resultaat hat
grootste applaus en de eerste prijde van den jury." (Ernst VERMEULEN)
DARMSTADTER ECHO (04.08.1980) - "Das absolute Gegenteil dazu wurde in der Streichquartett-
Komposition
des Rumanen Serban NICHIFOR geboten. Komplexe polyphone Schichtungen,
vorwiegend mit wisperndern Spiel
am Steg und scharrenden Flageolett-Tone aufgebaut, zeugten von einer ausgesprochen
raffinierten Schreibweise..." (Jo TRILLIG)
MUSICULTURA (Breukelen, II-1980) - "...NICHIFOR's final example was a 1980 cantata
. The work deals
with the peoples who lived in Romania in the most ancient times. In this energetic composition one
can find a montage of folk
materials and contemporary idioms..." (William P. MALM)
LIVING MUSIC (USA, Fall '93, Vol.11, No.1) - "...NICHIFOR has been active as a composer,
performer, and
musicologist. He has won numerous awards and is performed frequently in his own country and
abroad. During the past years he
has been especially active in Bucharest organizing concerts of music by Amarican composers.
NICHIFOR did visit the United States
in 1982, so he has a good sense of musical life in this country." (Rodney OAKES)
THE WHITE HOUSE - WASHINGTON D.C. (01.10.1992) - "Dear Mr. NICHIFOR, thank you for the
beautiful recordings
of your Third and Fourth Symphonies, which I recently received through the U.S.Information
Agency. I appreciate your having
dedicated them and I am delighted to know that our cities have inspired
you in this uniquely creative
way. The recordings have been donated to the Library Of Congress so that they may be preserved
for the people of the United
States. Your thoughtful gift will bring many hours of pleasure to all who come to enjoy them."
George BUSH, The President of the
United States of America
RHEIN-NECKAR-ZEITUNG (Karlsruhe,31.10.1996) - "...Und mit der des
rumanischen Komponist Serban
NICHIFOR wurde man dann doch noch hineingefuhrt in die versunkene Welt der stillen Gebete,
des Archaischen, der ruhig
brutenden Fauxbourdon-Klange, die zuweilen die innigen religioso-Harmonien eines Cesar
FRANCK herbeizitieren. Doch dann 4
noch gesprochene lateinische Gebetformeln - da gab es alles, war die Glaubensseele begluckt.
Dass davon gleichwohl ein subtiler
Reiz ausging, blieb unbestritten."(Rainer KOHL)
LE JOURNAL DE ST-GERMAIN (24.09.1999) - "...C'est pour honorer la memoire de Claude
DEBUSSY que le
compositeur Serban NICHIFOR a compose en 1999 , ,
drame lyrique evoquant les
dernieres annees du musicien. Il vient d'adresser au Musee Claude DEBUSSY sa piece pour
piano et bande magnetique. Dans cette
piece,on retrouvera tout l'univers debussyste: de la poesie enchanteresse,a l'appel du lontain...
Cet enregistrement vient enrichir le
fonds du musee (en cours de constitution) et devrait s'integrer au projet d'ecoutes musicales."
(Jacques BERLIE)
LUXEMBURGER WORT (23.02.2000) - "...Finalement, c'est de Serban
NICHIFOR qui nous
impressionna le plus. Concue comme un veritable ,l'oeuvre surprend
par son originalite et sa beaute
intrinseque, mais aussi par la virtuosite qu'elle exige du soliste. Pas de bavardage, pas de fioriture,
rien que de la tres belle
musique, fracassante certes, mais tellement vraie !" (Pierre SCHWICKERATH)
LA LETTRE DU HAUTBOISTE (France, No 5/2000) - "...Dans les <6 Melodies Irlandaises
d'Amerique> de Serban
NICHIFOR, les nantais, deja nombreux, s'etaient associes aus messins. Cette musique franche et
limpide, se pretait bien a un
effectif hors norme concu pour le plaisir de jouer tout ensemble."
CORALITA (Trento, Nr.6/1985) - "... di Serban NICHIFOR -
vivace e scherzoso
elaborazione, tessuto su uno scheletro armonico in cui le tre strofe vengono variamente
presentate... una precipitosa si
conclude in un buffo , che sfoncia nel (e ) dei due
accordi finali."
KOLNER STADT-ANZEIGER (08.12.1997) - "...der Anhang umfasst 135 Kompositionen... Zweiter
wurde Serban
NICHIFOR aus Bukarest..." (Claudia FREYTAG)
LIVING MUSIC (USA, Spring 2000, Vol.17, No.3) - "Serban NICHIFOR himself turned in some
splendid performances of
our american cello music, and ensembles of student performers who are sure to develop technical
and professional polish with
experience filled the remaining concert-and-a-half with vibrantly enthusiastic renditions of chamber
works..." (Aaron J.
RABUSHKA)
Address
Serban NICHIFOR, Str.Principatele Unite Nr.2,Vila I, Ap.7, Sector 4, RO-70512 BUCHAREST,
ROMANIA, Tel.(0040-
1)336.13.99. and (0040-1)772.30.29, E-mails: serbannichifor@gmail.com and
serbannichifor@yahoo.com Sites:
www.romania-on-line. www.geocities.com/serbannichifor http://serban-nichifor.omg-music.com/ www.geocities.com/novacons2001 www.mozart.co.uk/mzusers
From: Liana Alexandra
To: Dwight Winenger
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 2:52 PM
Dear Maestro Dwight Winenger,
It is our great pleasure to send you two of our recent presentations with american and european contemporary music.We would be very grateful to you if you would announce it on the LMF site.
Sincerely,
Liana and Serban
UNIVERSITATEA NATIONALA DE MUZICA BUCURESTI
Miercuri 1 Martie 2006, ora 15 Sala 54 (Computer Music)
NUOVA MUSICA CONSONANTE
LIVING MUSIC FOUNDATION (USA)
LIMBAJE MUZICALE CONTEMPORANE
- Ipostaze ale Postmodernismului –
Pagini antologice din creatia lui
VLADIMIR COSMA
Noi inregistrari realizate de
Orchestre National de Lyon si de
Paris Philarmonic Orchestra Dirijor Vladimir Cosma Solisti: soprana Wilhelmenia Fernandez, violonistii Jean-Luc Ponty, Vadim Répine si
Bartek Niziol, chitaristul Philip Catherine, naistul Simion Stanciu Syrinx, percutionistul Peter Erskine
Prezinta Conf. univ. Dr. Serban Nichifor
UNIVERSITATEA NAŢIONALĂ DE MUZICĂ BUCUREŞTI
Sala „Chopin“, Luni 24 Octombrie 2005, ora 16
NUOVA MUSICA CONSONANTE –
LIVING MUSIC FOUNDATION (USA)
COMPUTER MUSIC
În program lucrări în primă audiţie de
BARRY SCHRADER (USA)
„First Spring“
„Beyond“
„Death“
Prezintă Conf. Dr. Şerban NICHIFOR
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 12:07:59
Dear Maestro WINENGER,
It is with pleasure we send You the chronicle of our concert dedicated to
the tragic events from 11 September 2001.
We would be honoured if You will publish the article on the site of the LIVING MUSIC FOUNDATION although it is written in the
Romanian language, . The repertory and the dedication are very clear.
With our best wishes,
Faithfully Yours,
Liana ALEXANDRA and Serban NICHIFOR
===========================
Cu dragoste,DUO INTERMEDIA- NUOVA MUSICA CONSONANTE
sub stele
-----Visul unui recital de sublim si muzica de came
ra in aer liber------
... Ca tot atatea exercitii de recucerirea paradisu
lui pierdut- file din calendarul unui miracol anuntat...Fabuloase afise de
spectacol,invitatii la concert,caiete program si,cu parca zgomotul unei mas
ini de cusut gigant,tipografia din inima vechilor Bucuresti patriarhali und
e se naste peste noapte urmatorul numar al Jurnalului dse Festival,imortali
zand clipa pentru eternitate (in prim-plan:instantanee cu protagonistii aven
turilor sonore ale editiei; pe fundal-mereu furnicarul lumii elegante). Ma simt privilegiata sa schitez dara acum si aici,din cuvinte,silueta orasului
devenit feerica
boite-a-musique.Sunt negresit mai mult decat privilegiata sa consemnez cu -
repet- aceleasi cuvinte in alb-negru de care nu ma tem decat ca n-ar putea
exprima pe deplin luxurianta paleta cromatica a evenimentului,-visul recita
lului de sublim si muzica in aer liber-NUOVA MUSICA CONSONANTE in memoriam
11 Septembrie- Mesaj uman de iubire asupra careia moartea nu mai are nici o
putere!
11 ?! Era duminica seara pe la ceasurile 8.3op.m. s
i la finele unui incendiar program de folclor cu hora romaneasca rotund inc
insa in aplauzele generale, vara indiana isi intindea inca peste careul Pietei Festivalului
tentaculele. In mod reflex, avertizat ca urmeaza un recital de muzica contemporana, s-are fi presupus ca publicul va bate in retragere. Surpriza insa--do
ar pentru cei ce nu stiu ca, sfidand desertul cotidian cu atita subjugant farmec, atita neoconsonanta de frumusete pura pe axa Orient-Occident, Liana Alexandra si Serban Nichifor si-au capatat demult locul in inima melomanilor!
--asistenta reunita la kilometrul "O" al drumurilor care duc toam
na aceasta spre Festival, saluta calduros prezenta pe scena a tandemului com
pozitorilor-interpreti.
DUO INTERMEDIA- pian si violoncel pret de o reverie
Living Music in Romania- Nuova Musica Consonante sub stele. In program, mi
nunate creatii semnate de compozitorii americani Dwight Winenger, Tyler Cas
tleton, Brian Jensen, Mollie Shaffer, Lynn Shurtleff, Marlyn Collard, Newell Dayley, alaturi de lucrari de Liana Alexandra, Serban Nichifor, Boudewijn
Buckinx, Doru Popovici, Cor de Groot si Antanas Kucinkas.
Doi leaderi de generatie din galeria de portrete a
componisticii mondiale, stapanind la superlativ arta comunicarii , si un sing
ur regal- calatorie de seara, de liniste, si delicata afectiune, reflectie, privelisti virtuale si atmosfere...De la valorile noii muzici est si vest europene citire pana la transcriptii evocand, precum luna coborata pe Mississippi la vale, mai mult decat centenarele traditii ale pionierilor muzicii
americane. Ascult. Imi ascult inima batand de emotie.
ANCA ROMECI
Living Music recently received the following message from Serban Nichifor, Romanian composer, who has aided the Foundation on many occasions over the years:
----- Original Message -----
From: Serban Nichifor
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 2:29 PM
Subject: TRIBUTE TO JOSEPH SMITH, THE AMERICAN PROPHET by Serban Nichifor
Dear Maestro Winenger,
I have written a « TRIBUTE TO JOSEPH SMITH, THE AMERICAN PROPHET ».
It gives me great pleasure to send you this musical work in 14 parts on the attachment of this message (in Midi format).
Our response, of course, since Ameriphiles are so rare these days, is to offer this work for your perusal. Click here to jump to another page to audit any or all of these fourteen MIDI files as you wish.
Societatea
Romana de
Radiodifuziune
Miercuri 25 Mai 2005,ora 19,00
Sala
Alfred Alessandrescu
Recital Cameral
"Armonii pentru
Umanitate"
"Omagiu
Pionierilor
Americani"(III)
Susan
McClellan(SUA) flaut
Serban Nichifor -violoncel
Liana
Alexandra -pian
In
program:prime auditii absolute de:
Brian Jensen,Tyler Castleton,Dennis
Crocket,Mollie Shaffer,Gwen Cundick,Lynn Shurtleff,Marlyn Collard,Newell
Dayley,Afterglow,Hilary Week,Tyler Astleton,Serban Nichifor,Liana
Alexandra .
Dear Maestro
WINENGER,
We have the pleasure to present the extraordinary "60x60" Project at the National University of Music from Bucharest (Romania) -- in the "Chopin" Concert Hall, on 9 December 2004, 15:00.
UNIVERSITATEA NATIONALA DE MUZICA BUCURESTI
Sala “Chopin”
Joi 9 Decembrie 2004, ora 15
NUOVA MUSICA CONSONANTE
LIVING MUSIC FOUNDATION –U.S.A.
VOX NOVUS – NEW YORK
COMPUTER MUSIC
60 x 60
In program 60 de lucrari de cate 60 de secunde semnate de:
Riad Abdel-Gawd , Aaron Acosta, Liana Alexandra,
John Allemeier, Christian Banasik, Dennis Bathory- Kitsz, Stephen Betts,
Sandeep Bhagwati, Justin Breame,
Scott Brickman, George Brunner, Robert Carl, Miha Ciglar,
David Claman, Douglas Cohen, Noah Creshevsky,
Leslie de Melcher, Patrick Dorobisz, Moritz Eggert, Karlheinz Essl,
Carlo Forlivesi, David Gamper,
Douglas Geers, Peter Gilbert, Robert Gluck, Daniel Goode, Ramon Gorgoitia,
James Hegarty, Mark Henry, Erik Hinds, Bernand Hughes, David Jaggard, Keith Johnson,
Michael Kinney, John Link, David T. Little, Guy Livingston,
Annea Lockwood, Juan Maria Solare, Charles Mason, James McWilliam,
Luis Menacho, David Mooney,
Michael Murphy, Serban Nichifor, Richard O'Donnell, Maggi Payne,
Mark Petering, Morgan Quaintance,
Giuseppe Rapisarda, Laura Reid & Andrew Hudson, Robert Sazdov,
Jacky Schreiber, Alex Shapiro,
Emma Shiffrin, Allen Strange, Thomas Sutter,
Vladimir Tosic, Eldad Tsabary, Robert Voisey.
Serban Nichifor:
"Epiphany" for cello and piano (1994) [10:53]
Serban Nichifor, cello; Liana Alexandra, piano
clip properties: epiphany.wma [1-min.][125 KB]
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