Iancu Dumitrescu

Iancu Dumitrescu is considered one of the leaders of the spectral music trend at a worldwide level. In 1976 he founded the HYPERION Ensemble, proposing a new aesthetic in today’s music, hyper-spectral, based on the radiant power of sound, within its microcosmic complexity - which is questioned, analyzed, re-composed from a spectral perspective.

Dumitrescu is also Founder and Artistic Director of the International Music Festivals of Computer Assisted Music "Acousmania", "Musica Nova", "Musica Viva" and the International Spectral Music Festival "SPECTRUM XXI" - held annually in three European capitals.

His creation counts more than 300 works, chamber music, electroacoustic, orchestral music, computer music, etc.

His work is edited by Salabert (Paris), Editura Musicala (Bucharest) Gerig Musikverlage-Schott-Schöne (Köln). The LPs and Cds of his music are published by Edition RZ (Berlin), Generation Unlimited (United States), Escargot-Harmonia Mundi (France), Electrecord (Bucharest), Artgallery (Paris), ReR Megacorp (London), Bananafish (Los Angeles), Edition Modern (London-Bucharest). The musicological contributions of Iancu Dumitrescu have concretized in numerous articles such as "Structure & Freedom" (London, Resonance magazine), "Writing: Iancu Dumitrescu" (Revue et Corrigée, Grenoble), "Iancu Dumitrescu: On The Inside Looking In" (Bananafish, Los Angeles ), "In the land of ninth sky: Iancu Dumitrescu Ana-Maria Avram" (Musicworks, Toronto) and in the book "Iancu Dumitrescu, Acousmatic Provoker" (ReR Megacorp, London).