Ana-Maria Avram

Ana-Maria Avram was a Romanian composer, pianist, conductor and musicologist. She was born in 1961 in Bucharest and died unexpectedly in 2017[1]. Ana-Maria Avram attended the National University of Music in Bucharest from 1980 to 1985 then she studied aesthetics at Sorbonne Paris[2]. She was also the co-director of Hyperion ensemble with her husband Iancu Dumitrescu (the original founder in 1976). Avram also took on an administrative role by creating Spectrum XXI festival and was an early member of the Romanian Community of electronic and computer music[3]. She continues to have performances after her death like Issue Projects Room’s “Tombeau for Ana-Maria Avram” concert[4]. Ana’s music synthesized contemporary classical, improvisation, electro-acoustic- and electronic music. Her music tended to move between improvisation and notation. She tended used electronics to augment her sonic palette. [1] Schell Michael. “Women in (New) Music: Remembering Ana Maria Avram (1961-2017),” Second Inversion, August 15, 2017. [2] “Ana-Maria Avram,” web.archive.org, February 23, 2007, https://web.archive.org/web/20090616072101/http://www.cimec.ro:80/MUZICA/Pers/AnaMariaAvramEN.htm [3] Ibid., 1. [4] “Either/OR: Tombeau for Ana-Maria Avram,” Issue Project Room, Accessed October 26, 2019, https://issueprojectroom.org/event/eitheror-tombeau-ana-maria-avram.