Born in 1977, Lolea studied composition with Tiberiu Olah and graduated from the National University of Music Bucharest in 2000. In 2010 he completed his PhD from NUMB receiving the highest academic honors: summa cum laude.
He has participated in various international workshops with grants, including the Gaudeamus Music Week in Amsterdam (1997), International Summer Courses for Young Composers in Radziejowice (1998) and the 7th Internationale Akademie für Neue Komposition und Audio-Art in Schwaz (1999), where he studied with Bogusław Schaeffer, Marek Chołoniewski and Martijn Padding.
He composes chamber music, symphonic and vocal-symphonic music. His works have been performed across Europe and America, and have been awarded prizes in numerous national and international competitions, such as “The Roads of Romanticism” (1st Prize, 2007) and the “George Enescu International Composition Competition” (Special Prize, 2009). His music has also been presented in renowned international festivals such as the Warsaw Autumn, the George Enescu Festival and the World Music Days.
Selected Works:
Premiered: April 8th 2016, Forum neuer Music Festival, Kammermusiksaal, Cologne, Profil Ensemble, conductor Dan Dediu
Instrumentation: clarinet in Bb, percussion (one player), piano, violin I, violin II, viola, violoncello
Duration: ca. 10 min.
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Premiered: September 5th 2015, George Enescu Festival, Palace Small Hall, Profil Sinfonietta, conductor Tiberiu Soare
Instrumentation: flute/piccolo, oboe, clarinet in Bb/bass clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet in C, trombone, tuba, percussion (one player), piano, violin I, violin II, viola, violoncello, contrabass
Duration: ca. 8 min.
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Written for Matei Ioachimescu and “Green Thing Ensemble”
Premiered: May 30th 2014, The International Week of New Music , “Green Thing Ensemble”
Recording: Green Thing Ensemble. Studio recording, 2014
Instrumentation: flute/piccolo, violin, violoncello, piano Duration: ca. 6 min.
Mechanisms was written in 2014 for the flutist Matei Ioachimescu and Green Thing Ensemble and premiered during the ”International New Music Week” (Bucharest, 2014). Subsequently, the work was recorded in studio at the end of the same year in Vienna. For 6 minutes, Green Thing Ensemble becomes an homogeneous mechanism with 8 strings, 88 keys and two wind instruments (flute and piccolo).
Music:Mechanisms Score (excerpt)
Premiered: September 4th 2009, George Enescu Festival, Romanian Athenaeum, Profil Sinfonietta, conductor Tiberiu Soare
Recording: Profil Sinfonietta, conductor Tiberiu Soare (live recording)
Instrumentation: flute/piccolo, clarinet in Bb/bass clarinet, horn, trumpet, trombone, percussion (one player), violin, viola, violoncello, contrabass
Duration: ca. 8 min.
Award: Special Prize at the "George Enescu" International Composition Competition, Bucharest, 2009
The idea for this work began to take shape following some discussions with film director Gheorghe Preda. If we were to make a reference to the visual, Entropia would look more like black-and-white music. In its development, the work has mainly a concise, sometimes abrupt discourse, rather than a “wide breath”, in which the musical elements tend to contaminate each other. We witness a continuous oscillation between a state of evolution, a state of suspension and one of disintegration. On the other hand, as in detective fiction, the clues we get along the way could lead us to discover the murderer. Entropia was written in 2009 for Profil Sinfonietta.
Music:Entropia (excerpt)
Full Score (excerpt)
Composed: 2010
Premiered: September 23rd 2010, Warsaw Autumn, Witold Lutosławski Polish Radio Concert Studio, orkest de ereprijs, conductor Win Boerman
Recording: orkest de ereprijs, conductor Win Boerman (live recording)
Instrumentation: flute/piccolo/alto flute, flute/piccolo, clarinet in Bb/bass clarinet, soprano saxophone/alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, horn, trumpet, 2 trombones, tuba, percussion (one player), piano, electric guitar, electric bass
Duration: ca. 7 min.
2010 was written for Orkest de Ereprijs to be premiered at the Warsaw Autumn. The piece was conceived during a residency at Tescani, provided by the George Enescu Museum and Artistne(s)t. 2010 has a substantial personal significance that is responsable for most parts of the work's behaviour.
Music:2010 (excerpt) Full Score (excerpt)
Recording: Aperto Quartet. Studio recording, 1998
Duration: ca. 16 min.
Award: Romanian-American Composition Contest “Punte de suflete” Prize, Constanţa-Romania, 1998
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String Quartet - movement I (excerpt) Full Score (excerpt)
Premiered: 1996 by Adrian Buciu – flute and Cristian Lolea – piano
Recording: Matei Ioachimescu – flute and Horia Maxim – piano. Live recording, January 25th 2011, Radio Concert Hall, Bucharest
Duration: ca. 10 min.
Award: Grand Prix at “George Enescu – Childhood Impressions” International Composition Competition, Bucharest, 1998
Sonata for flute and piano was composed in 1996 following a special collaboration with the flutist Adrian Buciu. Conceived in a single movement, the evolution of the piece alternates between contrasting dialogues between the instruments and homogenizing moments, between episodes suspended in time and rhythmic sections, between explosions of the two instruments’ ambituses and moments of an extreme narrowing of the sonic space. The sonata’s musical material uses non-octaviant modal structures and modes of durations built on numeric principles.
In 1998, Sonata for flute and piano won the Grand Prix at “George Enescu” International Composition Competition for Young Composers (Bucharest).
Music:Sonata for flute and piano (excerpt) Full Score (excerpt)
Composed: 2003
Premiered: June 6th 2003, “George Enescu” Concert Hall, Profil Sinfonietta, conductor Radu Popa
Recording: Profil Sinfonietta, conductor Radu Popa. Live recording, May 29th 2004, International New Music Week, Radio Concert Hall, Bucharest
Instrumentation: flute/piccolo, oboe, clarinet in Bb, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, percussion (one player), piano, violin I, violin II, viola, violoncello, contrabass
Duration: ca. 10 min.
R.E.M. describes a phase of sleep (paradoxical sleep) and, anatomically speaking, expands to Rapid Eye Movement (R.E.M.). Some studies assert that the dream does not exist outside of this hypostasis of sleep, which is close to profound sleep but differs from this state in that we are conscious and the mind is working. Only those who immediately wake up after paradoxical sleep remember what they dreamt about.
Music:R.E.M. (excerpt) Full Score (excerpt)
Instrumentation: small children’s choir (or two amplified mezzo-sopranos), percussion group (four players)
Duration: ca. 11 min.
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Funny Games (excerpt) Full Score (excerpt)
Premiered: September 3rd 2011, George Enescu Festival, Romanian Athenaeum, Profil Sinfonietta, conductor Tiberiu Soare
Instrumentation: flute/piccolo/alto flute, oboe, clarinet in Bb/bass clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, percussion (one player), piano, violin I, violin II, viola, violoncello, contrabass
Duration: ca. 8 min.
In the field of contemporary visual arts, references to black-and-white are synonymous, many a time, with ”glides” into the realms of memories, mysteries, dreams or the austere. The lack of colour becomes a means of expression, as sometimes silence can be more suggestive than the sound. On the other hand, white and black are two non-colours placed at opposite poles, two extreme values in maximum contrast.
black-and-white was written in 2011 for the ”Profil” Sinfonietta, following an invitation from composer Dan Dediu, the Artistic Director of the ensemble.
Music:Full Score (excerpt)
Premiered: 1996 by Cristian Lolea
Duration: ca. 3 min.
Award: “Mihail Jora” Prize, Bucharest, 1996
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Score (excerpt)