Sorin Lerescu

Who is Sorin Lerescu?

Sorin Lerescu was born in Craiova and is a Romanian composer who studied at the National University of Music in Bucharest.

Lerescu has been active in his profession and is considered by many to be in the forefront of present-day prospective Romanian music.

He currently teaches counterpoint and composition at the Faculty of Arts of the Spiru Haret University, Bucharest.

He studied composition at the National University of Music in Bucharest with Tiberiu Olah and Anatol Vieru. Postgraduate studies with Ton de Leeuw, Brian Ferneyhough, Morton Feldman. He earned his PhD at the Gheorghe Dima Academy of Music in Cluj-Napoca in 1999 with Ede Terényi.

In 1982 he founded the TRAIECT New Music Group which introduced to the public, both at home and abroad, a large number of contemporary works, covering a wide range of styles and aesthetic trends characteristic to the new music.

He is the founder and director of the MEETINGS OF NEW MUSIC International Festival in Brăila. President of the Romanian Section of ISCM between 2003-2013. Director and co-director of the 14th and 19th INTERNATIONAL WEEK OF NEW MUSIC - SIMN Bucharest. Director of the MERIDIAN, ISCM-Romanian Section International Festival Bucharest.