Irina Odăgescu-Ţuţuianu is a Romanian

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 music educator and composer

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Biography

Irina Odăgescu was born in Bucharest

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, and studied at the Bucharest Music Conservatoire with Tudor Ciortea and Andrei Vieru. She also took summer courses with Iannis Xenakis

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, György Ligeti

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 and Karlheinz Stockhausen

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. After completing her studies, she became a professor at the Bucharest Conservatoire.

Odăgescu's works have been performed internationally in Europe

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, Asia

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 and the USA, and she has lectured at international conferences held in the University of Pau in France

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 and in Fairbanks

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 University, Alaska

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. She has co-written the texts Practical Studies for Reading in Keys for Two Voices in 1972, and Practical Studies for Reading in Old Choral Keys in 1982.

Honors and awards

• The Romanian Union of Composers’ Prize (1978–2004)
• The Romanian Academy’s George Enescu Prize (2001)
• The Viotti- Valesia Prize (Italy)
• The ‘Ciudad Ibague’ Silver Medal (Columbia)

Works

Odăgescu has composed symphonic, choral, ballet and chamber music. Selected works include:

• Youth Everlasting and Life Without End (2005)
• The Pyre of Bread
• Tall Song, Ballet
• Melos, Sonata for viola solo, Op.48 (1982)