Biography
Ghenadie Ciobanu was born on 6 April 1957 in Brătușeni,Edineț,Moldavian SSR. He graduated from the "Gnesin" Musical-Pedagogical Institute in Moscow (now the Gnessin State Musical College),faculty of piano (1982),and later from the "Gavriil Muzicescu" Conservatory in Chișinău,Department of Composition (1986).
He is the author of more than one hundred musical works across various genres,including opera,musical theatre,symphonic music,vocal-symphonic works,choral compositions,chamber music,and music for theatre and film. His works have been performed in numerous recitals and concerts in the Republic of Moldova,Romania,France,Germany,Greece,Spain,Israel,Denmark,Poland,Russia,Estonia,Ukraine,the United States,China,Italy,Bulgaria,Austria,Japan,Guatemala,El Salvador,Azerbaijan,the Czech Republic,Hungary,Canada,and other countries.
His compositions have been recorded on CDs and broadcast by Denmark Radio P2 (Copenhagen),Radio Romania,Radio Moscow,Teleradio Moldova,Radio Leipzig,Radio Amsterdam,and various radio and television stations in Italy,Spain (P2),the United Kingdom (GBEUR),the Czech Republic (CZCR),Portugal (PTRTP),Switzerland (SESR),and Croatia (HRHRTR),among others.
Ciobanu is a university professor and PhD at the Department of Musicology,Composition,and Jazz of the Academy of Music,Theatre and Fine Arts in Chișinău. He has also been a guest professor at several European universities and is the author of multiple scholarly works in the field of musicology. He served as President of the Union of Composers and Musicologists of Moldova (1990–2012) and has been its Honorary President since 2012. He has also been President of the Association of Contemporary Music of Moldova since 1993.
He is the founder and artistic director of the "Days of New Music" International Festival in Chișinău,as well as founder and artistic director of the "Ars poetica" ensemble. He has also produced and presented several radio programmes,including "The Studio of New Music," "Continuum. Musical Interferences," and "Musical Compositional Treasure," broadcast by the public company Teleradio-Moldova.
Ciobanu served as Minister of Culture of the Republic of Moldova from 1997 to 2001. [1] He was also a member of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova during the periods 2010–2011 and 2011–2014. [2]
He has received numerous national and international awards and distinctions,including the Order of the Star of Romania in the rank of Commander (2000),the National Award of the Republic of Moldova (1998),the honorary title Master of Arts (1999),the title Doctor Honoris Causa of the "Gheorghe Dima" Academy of Music in Cluj-Napoca (1997),the medal "150 Years Since the Birth of Mihai Eminescu" (Romania,2000),the Order of Labour Glory (Republic of Moldova,2010),the Order "Dimitrie Cantemir" of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova (2013),the Award of the Union of Composers and Musicologists of Romania (2019),the Ministry of Culture's "George Enescu" Award in musical composition,and several awards of the Union of Composers and Musicologists of the Republic of Moldova.
