36 Notable alumni of
National University of Music of Bucharest
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The National University of Music of Bucharest is 1157th in the world, 405th in Europe, and 7th in Romania by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 36 notable alumni from the National University of Music of Bucharest sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Gheorghe Zamfir
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- paintercomposerconductor
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Gheorghe Zamfir is a Romanian nai (pan flute) musician.
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Vladimir Cosma
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- film score composerpianistconductorviolinistcomposer
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Vladimir Cosma is a Romanian composer, conductor and violinist, who has made his career in France and the United States.
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Angela Gheorghiu
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- actoropera singermusician
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Angela Gheorghiu is a Romanian soprano, especially known for her performances in the operas of Puccini and Verdi, widely recognised by critics and opera lovers as one of the greatest sopranos of all time.
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Edward Maya
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- composerrecord producersingermusiciansongwriter
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Eduard Marian Ilie, better known by his stage name Edward Maya, is a Romanian musician, record producer, DJ, singer and songwriter. He is known for his 2009 smash hit single "Stereo Love".
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Radu Beligan
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- writerfilm directordirectortheatre manageractor
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Radu Beligan was a Romanian actor, director, and essayist, with an activity of over 70 years in theatre, film, television, and radio. On 15 December 2013, confirmed by Guinness World Records, the actor received the title of "The oldest active theatre actor" on the planet. He was elected honorary member of the Romanian Academy in 2004.
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Attila Dorn
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- singer
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Karsten Brill, best known by his stage name Attila Dorn, is a German singer. He is the lead vocalist of power metal band Powerwolf since 2003.
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Octavian Ursu
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- politician
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Octavian Ursu is a Romanian-German politician for the Christian Democratic Union and mayor of Görlitz since June 2019.
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Elvira Popescu
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- film actorstage actortheatrical director
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Elvìra Popèscu was a Romanian-French stage and film actress and theatre director. During the 1930s and 1940s, she starred in a number of French comedy films.
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Grigoraș Dinicu
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- violinistfiddlercomposer
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Grigoraș Ionică Dinicu was a Romanian violin virtuoso and composer of Roma ethnicity. He is most famous for his often-played virtuoso violin showpiece "Hora staccato" (1906) and for making popular the tune Ciocârlia, composed by his grandfather Angheluș Dinicu for "nai" (the Romanian pan flute). It is rumored that Jascha Heifetz once said that Grigoraș Dinicu was the greatest violinist he had ever heard. In the 1930s he was involved in the political movement of the Romanian Roma and was made honorary president of the "General Union of the Romanian Roma". Other well known compositions are: Hora mărțișorului (Mărțișor, literally "little March", is a major Romanian seasonal holiday on March 1), Ceasornicul (The Clock) and Căruța poștei (The Post Wagon).
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Mădălin Voicu
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- violinistpoliticianconductor
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Mădălin Ştefan Voicu is a Romanian musician and politician of Romani ethnicity. Voicu is a member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and has been a parliamentarian in the Chamber of Deputies since 1996. He is one of only two ethnic Romani politicians in the current parliament; the other is Nicolae Păun, who holds the seat specifically reserved for a member of the Romani minority.
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Valentina Naforniță
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- opera singer
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Valentina Nafornița is a Moldovan operatic soprano. She is best known for her interpretation of Mozart and bel canto repertoire.
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Paul Constantinescu
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- conductorcomposerfilm score composeruniversity teacher
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Paul Constantinescu was a Romanian composer. Two of his main influences are Romanian folk music and Byzantine chant, both of which he used in his teaching. One of his students was composer Margareta Xenopol.
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Dan Andrei Aldea
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- guitaristsingermusiciankeyboardistcomposer
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Dan Andrei Aldea was a Romanian multi-instrumentalist (guitars, violin, and keyboards, mainly) and vocalist, best known for his work with the band Sfinx, but also for his solo career.
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Alexandru Giugaru
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- actor
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Alexandru Giugaru was a Romanian stage and film actor.
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Temistocle Popa
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- songwritercomposerfilm score composeractor
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Themistocles Popa was a Romanian composer, musician, and film actor.
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Emil Botta
- Enrolled in the National University of Music of Bucharest
- Studied in 1932
- Occupations
- actorwriterpoet
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Emil Botta was a Romanian actor and writer.
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Maria Filotti
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- actorfilm actortheatrical director
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Maria Filotti was a Romanian actress. She was described as one of the "prestigious actors of the great realistic school" and the "directress" of a theater "that made an important contribution to transmitting the experience from one generation to the next."
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Alexandru Tomescu
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- violinist
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Alexandru Tomescu is a Romanian violinist. He plays a 1702 Stradivarius known as the Elder Voicu, which is on loan from the Romanian government until 2023.
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Iancu Dumitrescu
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- conductorcomposer
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Iancu Dumitrescu is a Romanian avant-garde composer.
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Mariana Sîrbu
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- music teacher
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Mariana Sîrbu, also credited as Sârbu, was a Romanian classical violinist and academic teacher, who made an international career performing and recording. She was focused on chamber music, founding the Academica String Quartet in 1968, joining the Trio di Milano in 1985, and founding the Quartetto Stradivari in 1994. She was concertmaster of I Musici from 1993 to 2003. She became professor of violin at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig in Leipzig in 2002, gave international master classes and was juror for competitions of violin and chamber music.
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Elena Cernei
- Years
- 1924-2000 (aged 76)
- Enrolled in the National University of Music of Bucharest
- Studied in 1951-1955
- Occupations
- musicologistopera singer
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Elena Cernei was a Romanian operatic mezzo-soprano, musicologist, and voice teacher. During her 25-year career as an opera singer, she sang in leading opera houses in both Europe and North America. In 1963, she was made Artistă Emerită (Honoured Artist) of the Republic of Romania and in 1999 received the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa from the National University of Music Bucharest for her contributions to the field of musicology.
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George Georgescu
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- conductor
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George Georgescu was a Romanian conductor. The moving force behind the Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra for decades beginning shortly after World War I, a protégé of Artur Nikisch and a close associate of George Enescu, he received honors from the French and communist Romanian governments and lived to make recordings in the stereo era.
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Carmen Petra-Basacopol
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- composermusic teacher
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Carmen Petra Basacopol was a Romanian composer, pianist, musicologist and academic teacher. She taught at the National University of Music Bucharest, between 1962 and 2003, and at the Rabat Conservatoire in Morocco in the 1970s. As a musicologist, she achieved a PhD from the Sorbonne University in Paris in 1976, with a dissertation about three Romanian composers who had influenced her, George Enescu, Mihail Jora and Paul Constantinescu, composers representing essential features of Romanian music.
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Liana Alexandra
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- music teacheruniversity teachercomposer
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Liana Alexandra Septefrati was a Romanian composer, pianist and music educator.
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Ștefan Gheorghiu
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- music teacherviolinist
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Ştefan Gheorghiu was a Romanian musician, violinist and teacher, born in Galați, Romania.
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Vladimir Mendelssohn
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- music teachercomposerviolist
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Vladimir Mendelssohn was a Romanian composer, violist, and professor. He had served as Director of the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival since August 2005.
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Harry Tavitian
- Enrolled in the National University of Music of Bucharest
- Studied in 1979
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- pianistcomposersingerjazz musician
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Harry Tavitian is a Romanian jazz pianist and singer, whose style covers free-jazz, blues, ethno-jazz and avant-garde.
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AMI
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- songwritersinger
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Andreea Ioana Moldovan, professionally known as AMI, is a Romanian singer and songwriter. She rose to fame following her 2012 single "Trumpet Lights" with producer David Deejay.
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George Stephănescu
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- music teachercomposerconductor
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George Stephănescu was a Romanian composer, one of the main figures in Romanian national opera.
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Șerban Nichifor
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- composer
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Șerban Nichifor is a Romanian composer, cellist and music educator.
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Mircea Tiberian
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- pianistjazz musiciancomposer
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Mircea Tiberian is a jazz musician and professor of music at the National University of Music in Bucharest. He coordinates the Jazz Department, which he set up in 1991.
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Iulia Maria Dan
- Years
- 1987-.. (age 37)
- Occupations
- opera singer
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Iulia Maria Dan is a Romanian operatic soprano. She was a member of the ensemble of the Hamburg State Opera from 2015 to 2018, and then moved on to the Semperoper in Dresden. She appeared at international opera houses and festivals in leading roles such as Mozart's Fiordiligi and Massenet's Manon, but also in unusual repertoire including Ofelia in the revival of Franco Faccio's Amleto.
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Tudor Ciortea
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- composer
- Biography
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Tudor Ciortea was a Romanian composer, musicologist, and music educator.
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Radu Boureanu
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- paintertranslatorpoet
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Radu Boureanu was a Romanian poet, prose writer and translator.
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Ion Nonna Otescu
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- composer
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Ion Nonna Otescu was a Romanian composer and head of the Bucharest Conservatory (now the National University of Music) from 1918 until 1940. He was born in Bucharest and died there at the age of 51, having played an influential role in the musical life of his native country.
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Liana Șerbescu
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- musicologistpianistwritermusic teacher
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Liana Șerbescu, is a Romanian pianist, piano pedagogue and musicologist, a pioneer in the field of women's music. Through her many-sided activity as a performing pianist, researcher and writer, she contributed to enriching the repertoire of classical piano music.
