Diana Gheorghiu

Diana Gheorghiu is a Romanian composer and artistic manager, born in Bucharest. She has a PHD in music at the National University of Music in Bucharest with Octavian Nemescu (2012) and she also studied with Aurel Stroe (Busteni, 1997, 1998) and Dmitri Terzakis (Bayreuth, 2002). Her music is described as original, refined and fascinating (Adrian Mantu, cellist RTÉ ConTempo Quartet, interview for Radio Romania Muzical, 2016), incitingly gestural (Dan Dediu, composer, in Adevarul newspaper, 2013), with a high sense for subtle adjustment of timbre, dynamics and rhythm (Despina Petecel Teodoru, critic, in Actualitatea Muzicala Magazine, 2016).
Her works are commissioned by British Council, Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, ICR - The Romanian Cultural Institute, the International George Enescu Festival Composition Workshop, UCIMR - the Romanian Musicians Association of Performers' Creation and are being performed in concerts and festivals in Europe and Middle East. Since 2003 she is co-founder of the ICon Arts Academy & Festival in Sibiu - one of the most important European events dedicated to contemporary arts, where she manages the ICon Arts Composer in Residence Programme. Beside ICon Arts, she has also coordinated over 50 national and international composing, and arranging. He has also spent years designing a large website, an overview of the literature of the piano.
projects for commissioning and promoting emerging and established Romanian and foreign composers, among which the Arts District - Music for spaces project, which she curates since 2017.
Diana Gheorghiu is a member of UCMR - the Romanian Composers and Musicologists Union, ARFA - the Romanian Association of Women in Art and SNR-SIMC - the Romanian Section of the International Society for Contemporary Music.