Dora COJOCARU / COMPOSER 3, Buttonwood, D.D.O. / Montreal, H9A 2N1 Québec

Phone: (514) 685-0487, e-mail : doracojocaru@yahoo.com EDUCATION 1997 Academia de muzică Gh.Dima* Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Ph.D. / Musicology (Prof. Dr. Cornel Ţăranu, member in the Romanian Academy, vice-president of the Romanian Composers Union, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres accorded by the Government of France)

1995 Hochschule für Musik* Köln, Germany Diploma in Composition / Aufbaustudium (Prof. Johannes Fritsch) 1991-1994 Composition and analysis courses (Paul Méfano, Dieter de la Motte, Aurel

Stroe, Brian Ferneyhough, Horaţiu Rădulescu, Violeta Dinescu, Krystof Meyer, James Wood, Pierre-Yves Artaud, Barrie Webb, Marianne Schroeder)

1986 Academia de muzică Gh.Dima, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Diplomas in Composition (Prof. Cornel Ţăranu), Music, Piano AWARDS AND GRANTS 2008 CONSEIL DES ARTS ET DES LETTRES DU QUEBEC - travel grant for a concert

and CD production in Basel, Switzerland 2006 CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS - travel grant for a concert and CD production at Deuschland Radio, Germany 2004 CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS - travel grant to Vienna, Austria 2004 STADTMŰHLE WILLISAU Grant - Willisau (Luzern), Switzerland 2001 PAUL SACHER Grant - Basel, Switzerland 2000 CONCEPT Grant - Bucuresti, Romania 1999 EUROPEAN UNION SOCRATES Grant - Köln, Germany 1999 PRIZE OF THE ROMANIAN COMPOSERS UNION 1997 1st PRIZE - INTERNATIONAL MOZART COMPOSITION CONTEST 1997 HONOR AWARD OF THE PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE - Cluj, Romania 1996 HONOR AWARD OF THE MUSIC ACADEMY GH.DIMA - Cluj, Romania 1995 ATELIERHAUS WORPSWEDE Grant - Worpswede, Germany 1994 GAUDEAMUS Grant - Amsterdam, Holland 1993 ROTARY CLUB Grant - Summer Courses, Bayreuth, Germany 1993 E.M.E.F.A. Grant - Paris/Saarbrücken, France/Germany 1993 HEINRICH BOELL Grant - Langenbroich, Germany 1992 SOROS Grant - Music Academy Köln, Germany 1992 4th PRIZE - INTERNATIONAL COMPOSITION CONTEST - Unna, Germany 1992 D.A.A.D. Grant - International Summer Courses for New Music, Darmstadt, Germany 1991 EUROPEAN UNION TEMPUS Grant - Music Academy Köln, Germany 1989 PRIZE OF THE ROMANIAN COMPOSERS UNION 1987 1st PRIZE - NATIONAL COMPOSITION CONTEST 1986 2nd and 3rd PRIZE - NATIONAL COMPOSITION CONTEST

* Equivalents of North-American Universities

WORK EXPERIENCE Since 2002 McGill University and Concordia University, Montreal, Canada / instructor

(Courses and seminars in composition and music history for graduate and under-graduate students, participation at colloquiums organized by the Theory Department)

1990-2001 Academia de muzicã Gh. Dima, Cluj-Napoca, Romania / Associate Professor (Courses and seminars in composition, analysis, theory, history, coordination of bachelor and master degree diplomas, member in the doctoral commissions and in the Professorial Council) 2000 Hochschule für Musik Köln, Germany / Invited Professor (Course on contemporary music inspired by East-European folk music) 1999-2000 Soros Foundation for an Open Society, Romania / member in the cultural

board (Judgment of cultural projects) 1992-1995 West Deutsche Rundfunk Köln, Germany / Moderator with own program (Productions of programs about Romanian folklore)

1986-1989 Music and Arts School, Baia-Mare, Romania / Music teacher (Piano, theory and choir courses, organization of concerts and festivals for children)

� Associate composer of the Canadian Music Center, member in the International Society of New Music, in the Romanian Composers Union and in the Society of Music Authors / GEMA (Germany)

� Compositions performed in Canada, Austria, Romania, Germany, France, Switzerland,

Hungary, Ukraine, Luxembourg, Holland, South Korea, Japan, USA

� TV, radio and CD productions

� Participations in congresses, conferences, workshops, publication of articles and two books

DIDACTIC EXPERIENCE Since 2002 McGill University Montreal, Canada and Concordia University Montreal

/ Instructor - Courses and seminars in composition and music history for under-graduate and graduate students (Music after 1945, Orchestral literature, seminars on Gy.Ligeti, Instrumental Theatre, composition)

Montreal Music Academy, Lambda School of Music and Arts and Pierrefonds Cultural Centre / Music teacher

- Piano and music theory courses 2000 Hochschule für Musik Köln, Germany / Invited Professor - Courses on contemporary music 1990-2001 Academia de muzicã Gh. Dima, Cluj-Napoca, Romania / Associate Professor

- Music theory, analysis and composition courses, coordination of diplomas, member in the Professorial Council, research and publications (2 books and several musicology articles)

1986-1993 Music and Arts School, Baia-Mare, Romania / Music teacher - Piano, music theory and choir courses, organization of concerts and festivals for children, compositions for children and for marionette-theatre, work for didactic material publication

OTHER ACTIVITIES 1999-2000 Soros Foundation for an Open Society, Romania / member in the cultural

board - judgment of cultural projects

1992-1995 West Deutsche Rundfunk Köln, Germany / Moderator with own program - radio productions on folk music (Von Bosphorus nach Gibraltar series) since 1990 Memberships: Canadian Music Center, International Society of New Music,

Romanian Composers Union, Society of Music Authors / GEMA (Germany); Concerts in Romania, Germany, France, Switzerland, Hungary, Ukraine, Luxembourg, Holland, South Korea, Japan, USA, Canada; TV, Radio and CD productions; participations in congresses, conferences, workshops

KNOWN LANGUAGES: English, French, German, Hungarian, Romanian

PUBLICATIONS:

Books: György Ligeti’s Work in the Stylistic Context of XXth Century, Cluj-Napoca, Editura MediaMusica, 1999 “…il frutto di una lunga, e laboriosa fatica” W. A. Mozart: The Haydn Quartets, Bucureşti, Editura Muzicală, 2000

Articles, papers, interviews: Audio-visual Parameters in Comparative Musical-Aesthetic Analysis, Cluj-Napoca, Lucrări de muzicologie 1983-1984/19-20, p.141-147 (with Gy. Makkai and F. Salăjan) Sincere or Snob, Cluj-Napoca, Napoca Universitarã, 1984/3-4, p.4 Liviu Glodeanu – Inventions for Wood Quintet and Percussion, Bucureşti, Muzica 1991/3, p.59-69 A Young Conductor’s Confesses, Cluj-Napoca, Tribuna, 1990/33, p.5 Felicia Donceanu in Cluj, Cluj-Napoca, Steaua, 1990/5, p.5 Postmodern Music, Cluj-Napoca, Jellenlet, 1990/2, pg.14 (with K.Kim, I.Angi, C.Rîpã, P.Szegõ) Ciprian Para, Cluj-Napoca, Tribuna, 1994/40, p.4 Cornel Ţăranu and the Obsession of Variation, Bucureşti, Muzica, 1995/1, p. 4-22 Remembering the Tradition, Worpswede, WUM, 1995 / 62, p.8 (with D. Holtz) Ensemble 2e2m, Concert Program, Cluj-Napoca, French Culture Centre, April 1995 12 Conferences about Traditional Music from Romania, Köln, WDR3, 1993-1995 Folklore as a source of inspiration in Romanian contemporary music – 4th International symposium “Folklore-Music-Work of Art”’ Fakultet Muzicke Umetnosti Belgrad, 1995, p. 116-125 The 5th Symphony by Vasile Herman, Bucureşti, Muzica 1996/4, p.7-15 Composers’ Workshop, Bucuresti, Radio Romania Cultural, October 1996 (with I. Hasnaş) Some Aspects of the Relationship Text - Music in the Creation of the Period 1955-1970, Bucureşti, Muzica 1997/1, p.74-100 Gy.Ligeti and the New Modernity, Bucureşti, Muzica 1998/3, p.14-35 Portrait of a Composer, Radio Cluj, February 1998 (with C. Rusu) Composers’ Workshop, Bucureşti, Radio Romania Cultural, May 1998 (with A. Ghiga) A Field of Large Expressive Force. Folklore as Inspiration Source in Romanian Contemporary Music, New Music World Magazine, nr.9/1999, p.54-56 Krzysztof Penderecki - Portrait and Concert Program, Cluj-Napoca, April 1999

Lucrări proprii interpretate în diverse festivaluri, concerte, emisiuni radio 1. -22.03.2004 - Cvartet de coarde nr. 1 (Cvartetul Bartha) - Bucuresti, Radio Romania cultural 2. -13.05.2004 - Refrene (Peggy Mezei, clarinet) - CUMS Conference, Lethbridge University,

Canada 3. -05.2004 Cinci momente efemere (cvintet de suflatori / Ansamblul Ars Nova) - Saptamana

Internationala a Muzicii Noi, Bucuresti 4. -01.09.2004 - Portret de autor : De doinit (Claire Genewein, flaut traversier, Nicoleta

Paraschivescu, clavecin), Red/Rouge/Rot (Christine Luethi, oboi), Amintiri din Apuseni (Claire Genewein, flaut), Schattenspiel (pentru oboi si violoncel / Christine Luethi, Marc van Wijnkoop Luethi) - Willisau, Elvetia

5. -29.09.2004 - Gymels for Gemini (lauta si gamba, Ansamblul Gemini), Galerie Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach, Germania

6. -30.09.2004 - Schattenspiel (Christine Luethi, oboi, Marc van Wijnkoop Luethi, violoncel) - Sibiu, Romania

7. -04.10.2004 - Etudes oubliées (cvartetul de clarinete al Academiei de muzica Gh.Dima) - Toamna muzicala clujeana, Cluj

8. -26.11.2004 - Refrene (Stefan Hulsermann, clarinet) – Komponistinnen und ihr Werk, Spurensuchen Europa – Festival Blickpunkt Rumaenien, Kassel (Lutherkirche), Germania

9. -15.12.2004 - Transparencies (clarinet si ansamblu / Ensemble Wiener Collage) - Schoenberg Centre, Viena, Austria

10. - 17.01.2005 - Clopote si orgi (orga, doua pozitive de orga si clopote) – Willisau, Elvetia 11. -21.04.2005 - Etudes oubliées (cvartet de fagoti / Massimo Bambagioni, Grzegorz

Dabrowski, François Palluel, Pierre Cathelain) - Angouleme, Franta 12. -26.04.2005 - Etudes oubliées (cvartetul de clarinete al Academiei de muzica Gh.Dima) -

Festivalul Cluj-Modern 13. -04.2005 - Red / Rouge / Rot (Dan Gliga, oboi solo) – concursul Sigismund Toduta, Cluj 14. -19,06.2005 - Der Magier (voce si 3 clarinete / Adrine Simonian & Ensemble

Clarinetissimo) 15. -10.07.2005 - Der Magier (voce si 3 clarinete / Adrine Simonian & Ensemble

Clarinetissimo) - Schloss Kirchstentten, Wien, Austia 16. -19.05.2005 - Der Magier (voce si 3 clarinete / Monika Riedler & Ensemble Clarinetissimo)

- Gmunden, Festwochen, Austria 17. -20.09.2005 - Venedig (Ansamblul L’Arcadia) - Offenen Kirche Elisabethen, Basel, Elvetia 18. -18.10.2005 - Venedig (Ansamblul L’Arcadia) - Marianischer Saal, Luzern, Elvetia 19. -18.10.2005 - Venedig (Ansamblul L’Arcadia) - Nydeggkirche, Bern, Elvetia 20. -18.10.2005 - Venedig (Ansamblul L’Arcadia) - Chor im Fraumünster, Zürich, Elvetia 21. -18.10.2005 - Venedig (Ansamblul L’Arcadia) - Wildt’sches Haus, Basel, Elvetia 22. -22.02.2006 - De doinit (Claire Genewein, flaut traversier si Nicoleta Paraschivescu,

clavecin) - Paul Sacher, Basel, Elvetia 23. -11.06.2006 - Venedig (Ansamblul L’Arcadia) - 61. Eifeler Musikfest, Kloster Steinfeld,

Schuelerkapelle, Steinfeld, Germania (Veranstalter: Kreis Euskirchen u. Kreis der Freunde u. Forderer des Klosters Steinfeld, JulicherRing 32, D, 53879 Euskirchen)

24. -18.06.2006 - Amintiri din Apuseni (Claire Genewein, flaut), Sirnach, Kirchengemeinde, Elvetia

25. -20.08.2006 - Amintiri din Apuseni (Claire Genewein, flaut), Evangelisch- Reformierte Kirchgemeinde Binningen-Bottmingen, St. Margaretenkirche, Elvetia (Pfarrer Willy Mueller)

26. -11.09.2006 - Amintiri din Apuseni (Ana Oltean, flaut), Haberhuss Köniz. Evetia 27. -10.10.2006 - Amintiri din Apuseni (Ana Oltean, flaut), Filarmonica Sibiu, Sala Thalia,

Romania 28. -12.10.2006 - Amintiri din Apuseni (Ana Oltean, flaut), Liceul de Arta Bistrita

29. -13.10.2006 - Amintiri din Apuseni (Ana Oltean, flaut), Cluj-Napoca 30. -11.11.2006 - Medalion componistic: ...on revient toujours! (clarinet si ansamblu) O

mein Bruder (cantata de camera), Poarta soarelui (flaut, timp., ucelli), Trills (trio de coarde), Die andere Seite der Stille (clarinet, vioara, viola, violoncel) – Ansamblul Thuermchen, Deutschlandfunk, Köln, Germania

31. 27.11.2006 - Amintiri din Apuseni (Ana Oltean, flaut), Ambasada Romaniei in Elvetia, Hallwyllstr. 15, Berna, Elvetia

32. -9.12.2006 - Amintiri din Apuseni (Ana Oltean, flaut) , RO-CHance şi Künstlerhaus Berna, Elvetia

33. -9.01.2007- Der Magier (Anna Haus, voce & Ensemble Clarinettissimo), Radio Kulturhaus, Grosser Sendesaal, Viena, Austria

34. -27.01.2007 – Medalion componistic si interviu la Deutschlandfunk, Koeln, Germania (emisiune de Gisela Gronemeyer)

35. -27.02.2007 - Poarta soarelui (Liselyn Adams, flaut, Vincent Dhavernas, timpani, Dora Cojocaru, ucelli), Universitatea Concordia, Oscar Peterson Hall, Montreal, Canada

36. -17.04.2007 - Refrene (Ioan Goila, clarinet), Colegio Madrid, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexic (2 concerte in aceeasi zi)

37. -19.04.2007 - Refrene (Ioan Goila, clarinet), Centro Cultural Universitario, Sala Carlos Chavez, UNAM, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexic

38. -07.07.2007 - De doinit (Claire Genewein, traverso, S. Mueller, cembalo), Evangelisch-reformierte Kirche Dietikon

39. -25.10.2007 - Magicianul (Lavinia Chereches, mezzosoprana, Ioan Goila, clarinet), Festivalul Muzicii Romanesti, Filarmonica Iasi, Romania

40. -25.02.2008 - Der Magier (Anna Haus, voce & Ensemble Clarinettissimo), International Festival Sarajevo-Winter (Sarajevska Zima), Croatia

41. -14.03.2008 - Trills (Susanne Zapf, vioara, Almut Steinhausen, viola, Ulrike Zavelberg, violoncel), Nachtkonzert, Deutschlandfunk, Koeln, Germania

42. -26.01.2008 - De doinit (Claire Genewein, traverso, Nicoleta Paraschivescu, cembalo), Muttenz, Elvetia

43. -08.04.2008 - De doinit (Claire Genewein, traverso, Nicoleta Paraschivescu, cembalo), Linz, Austria

44. -25.05.2008 - Three Sketches for a Fussy Winter (Ensemblul Traiect, dirijor Sorin Lerescu), sala G.Enescu, Universitatea Natioinala de Muzica Bucuresti, Romania

45. -21.05.2008 - Epitaf (Nicoleta Paraschivescu, orga), Biserica reformata Cluj, Romania 46. -07.10.2008 - Magicianul (Lavinia Chereches, mezzosoprana, Ioan Goila, clarinet),

Festivalul Toamna muzicala clujeana, Academia de muzica Gh.Dima, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

47. -14.09.2008 - De doinit (Claire Genewein, traverso, Nicoleta Paraschivescu, cembalo), Wettingen, Elvetia

48. -23.10.2008 - Magicianul (Lavinia Chereches, mezzosoprana, Ioan Goila, clarinet), Festivalul Craiova muzicala, Craiova, Romania

49. -12.11.2005 - Etudes oubliees (cvartetul de fagoti Acolade), Muzeul G.Enescu, Bucuresti, Romania

50. -28.11.2008 - Epitaf (Nicoleta Paraschivescu, orga), Theodorkirche, Basel, Elvetia 51. -2.12.2008 - Concert pentru oboi si coarde (Laszlo Bendeguz Ensemble, Lászlo Hadady,

oboi, Simeon Morrow, dirijor), Conservatorul de muzica Amsterdam, Olanda 52. -11.12.2008 - Three Sketches for a Fussy Winter (Ensemblul Traiect, dirijor Sorin

Lerescu), Festivalul international "MERIDIAN, Zilele SNR-AIMC”, Universitatea Nationala de Muzica Bucuresti, Romania

53. -09.03.2009 - Trio violinissimo (Trio Aperto), Muzica la timpul prezent, Radio Romania muzical, Bucuresti

54. -28.09.2009 - Jocul umbrelor / Schattenspiel (Yumika Nozaki, nai, Adam Siminiceanu, fagot), Muzeul National G. Enescu, Bucuresti, Romania

MUSICOLOGY WORKS

Books György Ligeti’s Work in the Stylistic Context of XXth Century, Cluj-Napoca, Editura MediaMusica, 1999 “…il frutto di una lunga, e laboriosa fatica” W. A. Mozart: The Haydn Quartets, Bucureşti, Editura Muzicală, 2000

Studies, Interviews, Workshops, Conferences Audio-visual Parameters in Comparative Musical-Aesthetic Analysis, Cluj-Napoca, Lucrări de muzicologie 1983-1984/19-20, p.141-147 (with Gy. Makkai and F. Salăjan) Sincere or Snob, Cluj-Napoca, Napoca Universitarã, 1984/3-4, p.4 Interdisciplinary in the Context of Romanian Contemporary Musicology - Conference, Cluj-Napoca, Music Academy Gh.Dima, May 1986 Some Aspects of the Music-Poetry Relationship, Conference, Baia Mare, Music School, March 1989 Liviu Glodeanu – Inventions for Wood Quintet and Percussion, Bucureşti, Muzica 1991/3, p.59-69 A Young Conductor’s Confesses, Cluj-Napoca, Tribuna, 1990/33, p.5 Felicia Donceanu in Cluj, Cluj-Napoca, Steaua, 1990/5, p.5 Postmodern Music, Cluj-Napoca, Jellenlet, 1990/2, pg.14 (with K.Kim, I.Angi, C.Rîpã, P.Szegõ) Folklore and New Music in Romania, Conference, Köln, Feedback Studio, June 1992 Liviu Glodeanu: Inventions for Wood quintet and Percussion, Conference, Cluj-Napoca, Music Academy Gh.Dima, November 1992 Congruencies in the XX.th Century Music: W.Lutoslawski and Gy.Ligeti, Bayreuth, Composers’ Workshop, July 1993

G.Enescu: Third Violin and Piano Sonata in Romanian Character, Conference, Saarbrücken, Atelier Compositeurs franco-allemand, September 1993 New Ideas in Romanian Contemporary Music, Musicology Seminar, University of Heidelberg, Kulturinstitut Komponistinnen, September 1993 Ciprian Para, Cluj-Napoca, Tribuna, 1994/40, p.4 Cornel Ţăranu and the Obsession of Variation, Bucureşti, Muzica, 1995/1, p. 4-22 Remembering the Tradition, Worpswede, WUM, 1995 / 62, p.8 (with D. Holtz) Composers’ Workshop, Radio Bremen, March 1995 (with M. Emigholtz, Y. Pagh-Paan) Doina - Traditional Music from Romania, Conference, Music Academy Köln, January 1995 Ensemble 2e2m, Concert Program, Cluj-Napoca, French Culture Centre, April 1995 12 Conferences about Traditional Music from Romania, Köln, WDR3, 1993-1995 Folklore as a source of inspiration in Romanian contemporary music, 4th International symposium Folklore-Music-Work of Art, Fakultet Muzicke Umetnosti Belgrad/Yugoslavia, 1995, pg. 116-125 Ligeti’s Avant-garde Creation at the Border of Aleatorism, Cluj-Napoca, Musicologorum Collegii Colloquium, Music Academy Gh.Dima, July 1996 Aspects of Instrumental Theatre in Kagels and Romanian Music, Cluj-Napoca, Musicologorum Collegii Colloquium, Music Academy Gh.Dima, June 1998 The 5th Symphony by Vasile Herman, Bucureşti, Muzica 1996/4, p.7-15 Composers’ Workshop, Bucuresti, Radio Romania Cultural, October 1996 (with I. Hasnaş) Some Aspects of the Relationship Text - Music in the Creation of the Period 1955-1970, Bucureşti, Muzica 1997/1, p.74-100 Gy.Ligeti and the New Modernity, Bucureşti, Muzica 1998/3, p.14-35 Portrait of a Composer, Radio Cluj, February 1998 (with C. Rusu) Composers’ Workshop, Bucureşti, Radio Romania Cultural, May 1998 (with A. Ghiga) A Field of Large Expressive Force. Folklore as Inspiration Source in Romanian Contemporary Music, New Music World Magazine, nr.9/1999, p.54-56 The Composition Technique in “Paroles tissées” by Witold Lutoslawski, Conference, Cluj-Napoca, March 1999 Krzysztof Penderecki - Portrait and Concert Program, Cluj-Napoca, April 1999

10 Conferences at the Music Academy Köln, Germany, May-June 2000 Composing Today, Conference, University of Oldenburg, Germany, May 2000

Self-portrait, Bucureşti, Radio România Muzical, September 2000

W. A. Mozart - The Haydn - Quartets, Conference, Cluj-Napoca, December 2000 The Expressive Role of the Multiphonics in My Own Works, Piatra Neamt, Musicological Symposium, May 2001 Pitch Organization in Two Works by Mauricio Kagel, Conference, Paul Sacher Institute, Basel, October 2001 Composers’ Workshop - Analyses of the Own Works, Music Academy Basel, December 2001 Composers’ Workshop - Analyses of the Own Works, Montréal Music Conservatory, March 2002 Composition techniques in the work of György Ligeti, Lecture, Concordia University, Montréal, April 2002 Presentation of current research activities, Lecture, McGill University, Montréal, September 2002 Romanian contemporary music – a kaleidoscopic scene, conference, Stadtmühle Willisau, August 2004 Music from Montreal, conference, Stadtmühle Willisau, August 2004 The tempo modification of the Minuet - a curiosity of Mozart’s “Haydn Quartets”, in printing The paradox of Mauricio Kagel - in work