Presentation of the new CD by Violeta Dinescu
Violeta Dinescu is a composer and university Professor, Dean of Class III, EASA. She graduated from the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory in Bucharest (now the National University of Music) and became a member of the Romanian Composers’ and Musicologists’ Association in 1980. She has lived in Germany since 1982, where she has taught at several universities. From 1996 to 2021, she was Professor of Applied Composition at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, where she launched the composer colloquium series Musik unserer Zeit (Music of Our Time), the Archive for Eastern European Music with the publication series Quellen und Forschungen (Sources and Research), and the symposium series Zwischen-Zeiten/Shifting Times. Since 2017, she has been a member of the EASA (European Academy of Sciences and Arts) in Salzburg, where she has been Dean of Arts (Class III) since 2021, a member of the Senate, and coinitiator of the colloquium series Arts Meets Sciences. Her catalogue of works includes compositions in a wide variety of genres. Violeta Dinescu has received numerous awards and prizes for her work...READ MORE about Violeta Dinescu
In her CD project "Durch Verrat hindurch" (Through Betrayal), the Romanian composer Dinescu combines textual aspects with a deep plunge into the inner world of sound, which can and should speak for itself. The extra-musical elements are conveyed on an abstract level, though the word ›betrayal‹ itself carries semantic associations. Several textual layers are intertwined. Dinescu takes up betrayal as an archetype of human behaviour, which already occurs in myths, ancient tragedies and the Bible. She firmly establishes this archetype with the Ninth Circle of Hell in Dante Alighieri’s Divina Commedia [Divine Comedy], written at the beginning of the 14th century. For Dante, betrayal, especially Judas’ betrayal of Jesus, was the most serious offence, the worst sin of all, which is atoned for in this last circle of Hell. Judas remains frozen in icy torpor as a symbol of complete insensibility – for betrayal is diametrically opposed to love of God and humankind, which for Dante was the highest virtue. And Violeta Dinescu adds that »love is the basis of friendship and familial relationships, and betrayal destroys this foundation; it destroys sacred bonds.« READ MORE in the ... CD BOOKLET
