Şerban Nichifor is an internationally prominent Romanian musician. He is Professor at the National University of Music, Bucharest

National University of Music Bucharest

The National University of Music Bucharest is a university-level school of music located in Bucharest, Romania. Established as a school of music in 1863 and reorganized as an academy in 1931, it has functioned as a public university since 2001...

 (Chamber Music Department); Member of UCMR (Romania), SABAM (Belgium), ECPMN (Holland); Vice-president of the ROMANIA-BELGIUM Association; Cellist of the Duo INTERMEDIA and co-director of the NUOVA MUSICA CONSONANTE-LIVING MUSIC FOUNDATION(USA) Festival - with Liana ALEXANDRA.

Studies: National University of Music Bucharest

National University of Music Bucharest

The National University of Music Bucharest is a university-level school of music located in Bucharest, Romania. Established as a school of music in 1863 and reorganized as an academy in 1931, it has functioned as a public university since 2001...

, Doctor in Musicology; University of Bucharest (Theology Faculty). International courses at Darmstadt, Weimar, Breukelen and Munchen; USIA Stipendium (USA).

Composition prizes at: Amsterdam, Tours, Athens, Urbana-Illinois, Evian, Toledo, Trento, Roma, Bydgoszcz, Köln, Karlsruhe, Newtown-Wales, Birmingham-Alabama. Comandor of the "Merit National Order" (2000). Works published at: Editura Muzicala (Bucharest), Edition Modern (Munchen), "Pro musica Studium"(Roma), "Quadrivium Music Press" (New York), "Mnemes" (Palermo).

Nichifor is married to Romanian musician and composer Liana Alexandra

Liana Alexandra

Liana Alexandra was a Romanian music educator and composer.-Biography:Liana Alexandra was born in Bucharest, Romania. From 1965 to 1971, she studied at the University of Music Ciprian Porumbescu, Bucharest. She received the "George Enescu" scholarship and took composition courses in 1974, 1978,...

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Principal works

• "Postludium" per Org. (1975)
• "Sorcova" per Coro Misto a capella (1995)
• Quartetto per Archi I - "Anamorphose" (1976)
• "Constellations" for Orchestra (1977)
• Symphony I "Shadows" (1980)
• Cantata "Sources" (1977)
• "Carols" per Trombone e Percussione (1978)
• Cantata "Gloria Heroum Holocausti" (1978)
• Opera "Miss Christina" (libretto by Mircea ELIADE,1981)
• "Canto di Speranza" per Fl., Vn, Vn, Vlc. e Pf. (1981); "Onirophonie" per Fl., Vn.e Pf. (1982)
• "Chanson d'Antan" per Vn.e Pf.(1983)
• "Aprite le porte di questo castel" per Coro Maschile (1984)
• "Carnyx" per Clarinetto (1984)
• "Tango for Yvar" per Pf.(1984)
• Quartetto per Archi II - "Vallons de l'Oubli" (1984)
• Symphony II "Via Lucis" (1985)
• "6 Melodies Irlandaises d'Amerique" per 2 Ob.,C.i. e 2 Fg. (1985)
• "Horn Call Rag" per Corno e Pf. (1986); "Czarna Rosa" per Mezzo-Soprano e Pf. (1986)
• "7 Canti Rumeni di Natale" per 4 Tbe, 4 Tni ed Org. (1986)
• Symphony III "American Symphony - I" (1986)
• Symphony IV "American Symphony - II" (1987)
• Symphony V "Pro Patria" (1987)
• "AVE MARIA" per Soprano ed Organo (1987)
• "Isola di Euthanasios" per Pianoforte (1988)
• Symphony VI "Time Archways" (1988)
• Cantata "Remember" (1988); "Transgressio" per Fl.,Ob. e Fg. (1989)
• "Battuta" per Percussione (1989)
• "Missa da Requiem" (1990)
• Missa "Actio Gratiarum Oecumenica" per Coro Misto (1991)
• "NATALIS DOMINI" per Coro Misto (1992); "Isihia" per Vlc. (1992)
• "Epiphania" per Cello e Pianoforte (1993)
• "Musica Caelestis" – treatise (1994)
• "Rorate Caeli" per Soprano ed Orchestra (1994)
• Chamber-Opera "Talaria" (libretto by Etienne DE SADELEER, 1994)
• "Medium per Arpa" (1995); "Medium per Flauto" (1995)
• Cantata "Per CHRISTUM" (1997)
• "Concerto GRIEGoriano" for Piano and Orchestra (1997)
• "3 Christmas German Chorals" for Organ (1997)
• "Hommage a DEBUSSY" per 2 Pf. - ossia Pf. e Nastro Magnetico (1998)
• "La Nuit Obscure" per Orchestra da Camera (1998)
• Chamber-Opera "Le Martyre de Saint Claude DEBUSSY" (libretto after Claude DEBUSSY and E.A.POE, 1999)
• "Turkish Bolero" for 4 Cellos and Orchestra (2002)
• Symphony VII “Cello-Memoirs” (2003)
• “Cries from Earth to Heaven – to the Holocaust Martyrs (2007)
• “Musica Caelestis” – treatise (1994)
• "Introduction to Computer Music" – handbook (2003).