Şerban Nichifor

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Şerban Nichifor (born in Bucharest, Romania, 25 August 1954) is a Romanian musician. He is Professor at the National University of Music, Bucharest (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, 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).

[edit] 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).