Ioan Mihai Cochinescu is a Romania

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n novelist and essayist. He is also a film script author and director, an art photographer, teacher, musicologist and composer.

Study

1970-1974 he studied music (violin, piano and composition) at The National University for Music in Bucharest. His professors included George Balan, Dan Constantinescu, Myriam Marbe

Myriam Marbe

Myriam Marbe was a Romanian composer and pianist.Marbe received her first piano lessons from her mother, who was a pianist. She studied at the Bucharest Conservatory from 1944 to 1954, where she took classes in piano with Florica Musicescu and Silvia Capăţână, as well as in composition with Leon...

, Victor Giuleanu, Emilia Comisel, D.D. Botez, Marin Constantin

Marin Constantin

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, Grigore Constantinescu

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, Dan Buciu, Alexandru Leahu. He was granted the Doctor of Music, (Aesthetics) from this university in 2005. His dissertation was on The Venetian baroque music of Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Vivaldi

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.

He is a teacher of Aesthetics

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 at the Fine Arts and Music High School of Ploieşti (Romania

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).

Artistic and literary activity

During the 1980s he participated in literary circles of Bucharest

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, which included the Junimea literary circle, led by the critic Ovidiu S. Crohmălniceanu, the Mondays literary circle headed by professor Nicolae Manolescu

Nicolae Manolescu

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, the "Ion Luca Caragiale

Ion Luca Caragiale

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" and other groups in Ploieşti

Ploiesti

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, Câmpina

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, Mizil

Mizil

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, Pucioasa

Pucioasa

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 and Slănic

Slănic

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. Many of his colleagues and he fought against the Communist censorship.

He has been published in the magazines "Argeş" (1968), "SLAST" (1986), and "Tribuna" (1987). A volume of short stories (1986 Publishing House "Cartea Romaneasca") the censors removed its narrations.

He participated as an Art photographer from 1982–1986 in a number of international competitions in Romania

Romania

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, France

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, Brazil

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 and Poland

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, where he won several awards. His essays, articles and translations have been published in the magazine "Fotografia". He is the creator of The Photoplan - and Photospacial Forms, shown in the galleries for photo art AAF (1983 Bucharest), Sala Dalles (1983 Bucharest) and 1986 in Poland

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. The first national salon for photographic essays, ESEF in Ploieşti

Ploiesti

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 was presented by him in 1986.

Affiliation

He is a member of the Writers' Union of Romania

Writers' Union of Romania

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 (1993), Association of the Art Photographers in Romania - AAF (1982), founder and chairman of the Literary Society Ploieşti - SPLP (1990), initial member (1994) and member executive committee (1996) of the Association of Professional Romanian Writers - ASPRO.

Literary and scientific activity

• 1991 novel "The Ambassador" (Cartea Românească Publishing House, ISBN 973-23-0252-6)
• 1993 "Rock and Depeche, the film of a novel" (LiberArt Publishing House, Ploieşti)
• 1996 "Isabella's winter dream" (ISBN 973-576-077-0) and "The island" (RAO Publishing House), short narrations of the 1980s
• 2001 "The Caligraphically Treatise", essay (Noel Computer Publishing House, Ploieşti)

The following books are in preparation:

• "The Sublime" (aesthetic studies 1994)
• "Alchimie and music" (2005)
• "The venetian musical baroque" (2005)
• "Antonio Vivaldi
  Antonio Vivaldi
  Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...
  
  " (2005)

Movies

• "The last snowman" (1968)
• "When the adults play it" (1969)
• "The house on the hill" (1969)
• "The city" (1970)
• "The fish in the water" (1971)
• "The wedding" (1973)

Literary magazines, broadcast and television

• Literary magazines: "Contrapunct", "Romania literara", "Literatorul", "Caiete critice" a.s.o.
• Broadcast and television: Romanian Broadcast(1997), SOTI Television Bucharest(1993), Romanian Television - TVR (1973–1974), Antena 1 TV Ploieşti (1999–2000) a.s.o.

Literary awards

For his novel, "The Ambassador"(1991):

• Romanian Academy's Award
• Romanian Writers Union's Award
• Liviu Rebreanu Award

Critical evaluations

Gabriela Adameşteanu

Gabriela Adamesteanu

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, Magdalena Bedrosian, Nicolae Breban

Nicolae Breban

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, Zoe Dumitrescu-Buşulenga, Călin Căliman, Mircea Cărtărescu

Mircea Cartarescu

Mircea Cărtărescu is a Romanian poet, novelist and essayist.Born in Bucharest, he graduated from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Letters, Department of Romanian Language And Literature, in 1980. Between 1980 and 1989 he worked as a Romanian language teacher, then he worked at the Writers'...

, Ov.S.Crohmălniceanu, Constantin Hârlav, Florin Iaru, Ion Bogdan Lefter, Alexandru Leahu, Monica Lovinescu

Monica Lovinescu

Monica Lovinescu was a Romanian essayist, short story writer, literary critic, translator, and journalist, noted for her activities as an opponent of the Romanian Communist regime. She published several works under the pseudonyms Monique Saint-Come and Claude Pascal. She is the daughter of...

, Fl.Manolescu, Dan C.Mihăilescu, Simona Popescu, Tania Radu, Iosif Sava, Eugen Simion, Octavian Soviany, Elena Ştefoi, Alex.Mihai Stoenescu, Ion Stratan, Cristian Teodorescu, Laurentiu Ulici, Ioan Vieru

Ioan Vieru

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 a.s.o.

Works

• The Ambassador (1991), novel
• Rock & Depeche. The movie of a novel (1993), novel
• Isabella's winter dream (1996), short stories
• The Caligraphically Treatise (2001), essays

External links

• Author's website (in Romanian, with an English version)