BIOGRAPHY Marian
Mitea Marian
MITEA (Giurgiu 1943) Marian
MITEA Marian
Mitea has been the director of Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
Music Academy since 1980. Since 1984, he has been
organising Autumn Concerts dedicated to
contemporary Belgian production. In 1995, the Union
of Belgian Composers and the SABAM award him the
"Fuga" Trophy, for his merits in promoting Belgian
music. He is also the director of the
Messery-sur-Léman Summer Academy (France).
He is a member of the Union of Belgian Composers
and has taken part in its Board of
Directors. He
was Jules Bastin's assistant for 15 years at the
Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music and has
initiated several exchanges between Belgium,
Hungary and Romania. The Franz Liszt Conservatory
Orchestra of Debrecen (Hungary), the Symphonic
Orchestra and Opera Orchestra of Constanta
(Romania), as well as the Philharmonic Orchestra of
Bucharest have been his guests, as a
conductor. In
1999, he founded the "Sammartini Choir and
Consort", heir to the Choirs of the
Woluwe-Saint-Pierre Academy, a semiprofessional
choir which possesses an important repertoire of
the XVIIth - XIXth centuries : Monteverdi, Caldara,
Sammartini, Pachelbel, J.S. Bach, Haendel, C.Ph.Em.
Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Schubert,
Rossini, Puccini, Brahms, Diabelli, de Sousa
Carvalho. As
a composer, Marian Mitea is the author of several
important works, among others: Esquisse for
solo piano, Childhood for string quartet
with spoken solo (on poems by Arthur Rimbaud),
Dixtet for strings, wind instruments and
piano, Concertino for two pianos and
strings, Concerto for oboe, clarinet and
strings, Syllogism for wind septet with
piano, Syntagme for solo piano, Three
melodies on poems by Rimbaud, Verlaine and
Baudelaire for soprano and piano quartet,
Suite for a clarinet quartet, Attente
for cello quartet, Sonnet d'automne for
trumpet and piano, Essay for violin and
piano, as well as many choral pieces, including a
Stabat Mater. Philippe
BAYARD (d'après Marian Mitea)
Translated by Alexandre MITEA