Irinel Anghel
Romanian Music in the Second Half
Dr. Irinel Anghel
Looking back, the Romanian school of composers – a school without a tradition (centuries behind West European culture in general and music in particular) that only arose as such in the twentieth century – was truly miraculous in its birth and rise. Taking seed at the same time as the widespread phenomenon of the national movements of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the Romanian school gradually meshed with the Western avant-garde only later to break away, thanks to its own highly original ideas and achievements.
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Short Biography
Dr. Irinel Anghel • composer, vocal performer and interdisciplinary artist (b. 1969, Bucharest). She attended the Georges Enesco Music Lycée, Bucharest, specialising in piano (1988), and the National University of Music, Bucharest, specialising in musicology (1994) and then composition (1996). She has Master’s Degrees in Musicology (1995) and Composition (1997) and was awarded a PhD in Musical Studies in 2003. She is a graduate of the National University of Music’s MIDAS postdoctoral programme.
Her output as a composer includes instrumental pieces, chamber music, electronic music, symphonic works, and theatre music. Her recent work has focused on interdisciplinary, hybrid, fusion and performance art. She is a proponent of experiential art with a surrealist catch.
Irinel Anghel has published a series of articles in Muzica magazine and the in the book Orientations, Directions, Currents of Romanian Music in the Second Half of the 20th Century (Editura Muzicală, 1997, republished by Editura Eikon in 2018).
Irinel Anghel is a winner of the Prize of the Union of Romanian Composers and Musicologists (1998, 1999, 202, 2004, 2014, 2017), the Romanian Academy’s Georges Enesco Prize (1999), the Ukimura Prize, awarded by the International Theatre Institute (UNESCO) for her original music for the theatre performance Bloodied Lovers (2002), and the 2003 International New Music Consortium Award (New York). From 2010 to 2012, Irinel Anghel was the artistic director of International New Music Week. She is currently editor-in-chief of Muzica, the review of the Union of Composers and Musicologists.