42 Notable alumni of
National University of Music of Bucharest
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The National University of Music of Bucharest is 1115th in the world, 394th in Europe, and 7th in Romania by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 42 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 Pula Mare
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- composerpainterconductor
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Gheorghe Zamfir is a Romanian nai (pan flute) musician.
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Vladimir Cosma
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- composerviolinistconductorpianistfilm score composer
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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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- musicianopera singeractor
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Angela Gheorghiu is a Romanian soprano, especially known for her performances in the operas of Puccini and Verdi.
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Edward Maya
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- composerrecord producersingersongwriterdisc jockey
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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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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 has been the lead vocalist of the power metal band Powerwolf since 2003.
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Radu Beligan
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- actortheatre managerdirectorfilm directorwriter
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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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Elvira Popescu
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- stage actorfilm 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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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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Grigoraș Dinicu
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- composerfiddlerviolinist
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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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- politicianviolinistconductor
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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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- film score composercomposerconductoruniversity 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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Alexandru Giugaru
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- actor
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Alexandru Giugaru was a Romanian stage and film actor.
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Constantin Silvestri
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- university teachercomposerpianistconductor
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Constantin-Nicolae Silvestri was a Romanian conductor and composer.
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Temistocle Popa
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- film score composercomposersongwriteractor
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Themistocles Popa was a Romanian composer, musician, and film actor.
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Dan Andrei Aldea
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- composerkeyboardistmusiciansingerguitarist
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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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Emil Botta
- Enrolled in the National University of Music of Bucharest
- Studied in 1932
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- writeractorpoet
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Emil Botta was a Romanian actor, poet and prose writer, the younger brother of poet-essayist Dan Botta. Though born in Western Moldavia, the two boys were raised by their Corsican mother in Muscel County; as a teenager, Emil rebelled against his upbringing and ran away to Bucharest. Upon arriving there, he embraced a bohemian lifestyle that clashed with Dan's academic success; he took small jobs, had samples of his poetry and film criticism published, and, upon graduating from the Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, began a short career in boulevard comedies. As an opinion leader in the early 1930s, he rallied with the avant-garde's struggle against the "old folks", forming an anti-establishment club called "Ship of Failures". His career as an actor was finally launched in 1938, when he drew notice for his performance as Young Werther in production at the National Theater Bucharest (TNB). He found permanent employment on that troupe, developing an acting style that critics viewed as unique and fascinating, if "mannerist".
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Maria Filotti
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- film actoractortheatrical 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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- composerconductor
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Iancu Dumitrescu is a Romanian avant-garde composer.
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Elena Cernei
- Enrolled in the National University of Music of Bucharest
- Studied in 1951-1955
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- opera singermusicologist
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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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Mariana Sîrbu
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- music educator
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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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Génica Athanasiou
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- actor
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Genica Athanasiou was a Romanian-French stage and film actress.
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AMI
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- singersongwriter
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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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Liana Alexandra
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- composeruniversity teachermusic educator
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Liana Alexandra Septefrati was a Romanian composer, pianist, and music educator.
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Carmen Petra-Basacopol
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- music educatorcomposer
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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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Ștefan Gheorghiu
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- violinistmusic educator
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Ştefan Gheorghiu was a Romanian musician, violinist and teacher, born in Galați, Romania.
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Sorin Chifiriuc
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- monkmusiciansingerguitaristdisc jockey
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Sorin Chifiriuc is a rock, new wave, and blues guitarist and vocalist.
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György Selmeczi
- Enrolled in the National University of Music of Bucharest
- Studied in 1971-1975
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- composerclassical pianistconductormusicianopera director
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György Selmeczi is a Hungarian composer, conductor, opera director, and pianist.
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Harry Tavitian
- Enrolled in the National University of Music of Bucharest
- Studied in 1979
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- composerpianistjazz musiciansinger
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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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Vladimir Mendelssohn
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- composermusic educatorviolist
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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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George Stephănescu
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- composermusic educatorconductor
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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 OCB is a Romanian composer, cellist and music educator.
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Floria Capsali
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- ballet dancerchoreographer
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Floria Capsali was an Ottoman-born Romanian ballerina, choreographer and dance teacher.
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Mircea Tiberian
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- composerjazz musicianpianist
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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 38)
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- opera singer
- Biography
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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
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Tudor Ciortea was a Romanian composer, musicologist, and music educator.
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Petre Munteanu
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- opera singer
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Petre Munteanu was a Romanian operatic tenor particularly associated with Mozart and lighter Italian roles.
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Radu Boureanu
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- translatorpainterpoet
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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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- writerpianistmusicologistmusic educator
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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.
