Born on July 6, 1951 in Bucharest, Adrian Iorgulescu is one of those multivalent musicians who, through a complex training in several fields, has distinguished himself creatively, theoretically, politically, pedagogically and administratively. He graduated from the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory in Bucharest and in 1982 he went on to study composition and musicology at the Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome.
Adrian Iorgulescu is currently professor and PhD supervisor at the National University of Music in Bucharest and president of the Romanian Musical Performing and Mechanical Rights Society (UCMR-ADA). He was president of the Union of Romanian Composers and Musicologists in 1992-2005 and 2010-2022. He has been involved in cultural-political life also from a governmental perspective, serving as Minister of Culture and Cults between 2005 and 2008.
His oeuvre includes works from all musical genres, including, selectively, the opera Revuluția [The Revolution], two cantatas, six symphonies, six instrumental concertos (the cycle Ipostaze [Hypostasis]), film music, chamber music (including six string quartets), symphonic and choral works and lieder. Adrian Iorgulescu is the author of didactic and musicological works, volumes of poetry, essays, studies and articles published in the specialized press.
He has been awarded with numerous national and international prizes, such as the Dinu Lipatti Prize (1973), the UCIN Prize for film music, the Union of Romanian Composers and Musicologists Prizes (1979, 1981, 1982, 1987, 1989, 2013 and 2016), the George Enescu Prize of the Romanian Academy or the World Music Celebration Composition Prize – Louisville (USA). In 2022, he was awarded the Grand Prize of the Union of Romanian Composers and Musicologists for his entire artistic career.
He is a correspondent member of the Romanian Academy and Doctor Honoris Causa of the Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts of Chișinău (Republic of Moldova).
