Rucsandra Popescu

Rucsandra Popescu (* 1980 ) is a Romanian composer , choir director and pianist .

Life

Popescu was born into a Romanian family of musicians. She received her first musical training in Bucharest . In 1999 she completed her musical education there. She then studied, interrupted by a year abroad with Violeta Dinescu at the University of Oldenburg in 2002, at the National Music University of Bucharest , where she graduated in 2004. Popescu moved to Bremen , where she obtained a master's degree in composition at the Bremen University of the Arts in 2009 . There she received her PhD in composition with Younghi Pagh-Paan in 2012 .

Popescu led various orchestras and choirs. Since 2008 she has been the choir director of the J-Cappella university choir at Jacobs University Bremen . In 2013/2014 she also taught at the " Giuseppe Sinopoli " music school in Martellago and leads the ensemble there .

2017 - Winner of the composition competition (1st prize - for children's choir) for the Reformation anniversary "Verleih uns Frieden" of the German Choir Association
2016 - with J-Cappella , "very good" diploma at the 4th Lower Saxony Choir Association Competition in Celle.
2012 - with J-Cappella , two silver medals at the Petr Eben International Festival and Choir Competition in Prague
2012 - Winner of the composition competition of the Landesmusikrat Bremen with knowledge, say for choir (ERES Edition)
2011 - TACTUS composition competition in Belgium
2009 - Prize for the best academic results at the International Composition Competition of the University of the Arts Bremen
2008 - Prize winner at the International Composition Competition of the Festival European Church Music ... and love me ... for choir
2004 - Paul Constantinescu Prize (1st Prize) for Idealuri for Choir
2003 - Special prize at the Carl von Ossietzky choir competition for Tripthicon in nuce
2002 - Paul Constantinescu Prize (2nd prize) for Sonata for violin and piano

2012 Magnificat for children's choir, percussion and harp, commissioned by Sing-Akademie Hardegsen eV (world premiere October 6, 2012)
2011/2012 au contraire for the Boreas Quartet Bremen (world premiere January 19, 2012)
2011 in nomine for the St. Petri Domsingschule Bremen (world premiere October 8, 2011)
2010 Moldavieren for the Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra
2009 Pinocchio's World , children's opera for Die Glocke Bremen (premiere April 26, 2009)
2009 Beethoveniada for the orchestra of the Bremen University of the Arts
2007/2008 Contraverse for Ensemble Recherche (world premiere - February 22, 2008; recording by SWR on October 20, 2008)
2007 Signal B , performed by the Bremen Philharmonic

Private homepage (main source, as of February 14, 2016)

Choir director Popescu on jacobs-university.de (source, as of February 14, 2016)

personal data
SURNAME	Popescu, Rucsandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Romanian composer, choir director and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH	1980