Liana Alexandra was a Romanian

Romanians

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 music educator and composer.

Biography

Liana Alexandra was born in Bucharest

Bucharest

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, Romania

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. From 1965 to 1971, she studied at the University of Music Ciprian Porumbescu

Ciprian Porumbescu

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, Bucharest. She received the "George Enescu

George Enescu

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" scholarship and took composition courses in 1974, 1978, 1980 and 1984 in Darmstadt

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, West Germany

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. In 1983 she received a USIA stipend to study in the USA and received a Ph.D. in Musicology.

Liana Alexandra has won many prizes and honors including: the Prize of the Romanian Composers and Musicologists Union on five occasions in 1975, 1979, 1981, 1982, and 1984. In 1979, she received the first prize in Dresden at the "Carl Maria von Weber Competition." She won the "Gaudeamus" Foundation prize in 1979 and 1980, and in 1980, she also won the prize of the Romanian Academy.

Alexandra married Romanian musician and composer Serban Nichifor

Serban Nichifor

Şerban Nichifor is an internationally prominent Romanian musician. He is Professor at the National University of Music, Bucharest ; Member of UCMR , SABAM , ECPMN ; Vice-president of the ROMANIA-BELGIUM Association; Cellist of the Duo INTERMEDIA and co-director of the NUOVA MUSICA...

 in 1978. She took a position as professor at the National University of Music Bucharest

National University of Music Bucharest

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, teaching composition, orchestration and musical analysis. She performed as a member of Duo Intermedia and was co-director of the Nuova Musica Consonante-Living Music Foundation Festival with Serban Nichifor.

Prizes and honors

Alexandra's compositions have won numerous prizes and honors, including:

• 1975, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1987, 1988 - Prize of the Union of Romanian Composers
• 1979 - Gaudeamus Prize
• 1979 - First Prize "Carl Maria von Weber", Dresden
• 1980 - Prize of Romanian Academy
• 1980 - Gaudeamus Prize
• 1982, 1983 - Diploma from the "Who's Who in the World Dictionary", USA
• 1989 - Second Prize, Mannheim-Gedock, Germany
• 1986 - Prize of Beer-Sheva, Israel
• 1991 - Third Prize "Fanny Mendelssohn", Dortmund-Unna, Germany
• 1992 - Prize "Gaudeamus", Magadino, Switzerland
• 1993 - ISCM Prize, Mexico
• 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000 - "Woman of the Year", USA
• 1997, 1998 - "Woman of the Year", Great Britain
• 1997 - Prize ACMEOR, Bucharest
• 1997 - Prize ACMEOR, Tel-Aviv
• 2000 - "International Commendation of Success", USA
• 2000 - "The 20th Century", USA
• 2001 - "International Personality of the Year 2001", Great Britain
• 2001 - "Researcher of the Year 2001", American Biographical Institute, USA
• 2002 - "Woman of the Year 2002", American Biographical Institute, USA

Works

Selected works include:

• Symphonic, vocal-symphonic and concert music, music for opera
• Symphony I (1971)
• Cantata for women's choir and orchestra (verses by Lucian Blaga, 1971
• Valences, symphonic movement, 1973
• Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, 1974
• Cantata II for soprano, baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra (verses by Lucian Blaga, 1977
• Cantata III "Country-land, country-idea" for women's chorus and orchestra, verses by Nichita
• Stanescu, 1977
• Symphony II "Hymns", 1978
• The Snow Queen children's after a story by Hans Ch. Andersen, 1978
• Concerto for viola, flute and chamber orchestra, Op.23, 1980

Discography

Alexandra's compositions have been recorded and issued on CD, including:

• Contemporary Music IV - Audio CD (Feb. 22, 2005) by Paul Constantinescu, Pascal Bentoiu, Liana Alexandra, Laurentiu Profeta, et al. Electrecord, ASIN: B0007MSURQ.
• 60x60 (2006-2007) Vox Novus VN-002
• 60x60 (2004-2005) Vox Novus VN-001 - Album Nominated for Just Plain Folks Award (2009)

External links

• Liana Alexandra's Biography on Vox Novus
• Liana Alexandra flute sonata on Youtube
• Liana "Barcarola" on Youtube
• http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-cultura-8197487-murit-compozitoarea-liana-alexandra.htm Obituary