Performing Arts Online - Leonard DUMITRIU

The conductor and composer Leonard DUMITRIU was born in Iasi, Romania, on the 19th of August 1962. The father was clarinet player at the Iasi Symphonic Orchestra, professor at the Iasi High School for Music and Iasi Music Conservatoire. The mother was a mezzo-soprano in the Iasi Opera Chorus. As a child Mr. Dumitriu attended Symphony Orchestra rehearsals, Opera Chorus rehearsals and many Dress Rehearsals.In this way he was acquainted with the life and activity of the Singers and Instrumentalists.

At the age of 6, in 1968, he became a pupil at the Iasi High School for Music, piano class. For 12 years, until 1980, when he graduated, he participated at many recitals, played as asoloist with the Orchestra and also accompanied many instrumentalists ad singers in their recitals. During the 12 years of study, he have attended many Symphony Concerts and Opera performances.

Between 1981-1985, Mr. DUMITRIU was a student at the Iasi Music Conservatoire, the composition and conducting class. He had the best professors at the disciplines composition, conducting, harmony, counterpoint, orchestration, history of music, and he was one of their best students. Mr. DUMITRIU's compositions were played every year at the composition class recitals, and he conducted several concerts of the Conservatoire Orchestra and the Opera class production, "Il matrimonio segreto". He graduated the Iasi Music Conservatoire in 1985, with Merit Diploma.

In 1986 he was employed as conductor at the Iasi Romanian Opera and he has been invited to conduct at many Romanian Opera Theatres, also at the Moldavian National Opera and Novi Sad Opera (Serbia). In 1994 and 1995 he participated at 2 tours in Italy, with the Iasi Opera Staff. Since 1986 he co-operated with the best Romanian soloists and with many directors. After some years of practice, Mr. DUMITRIU felt that he has the experience and instructive capacity to work with the students. He gave evidence of a lot of patience and understanding and he used a proper language for people without a large musical experience. He obtained beautiful results at the singers recitals and the concerts with the orchestra.

As opera conductor, Mr. DUMITRIU observed that soloists coach better when they rehearse with the conductor at the piano. In this manner, as an accompanist too, he worked all his opera premieres since 1992: Il matrimonio segreto, Die vier Grobiane (Romanian Television made a film of this opera) and Mefistofele (last November).

Mr. Dumitriu considered that for beeing a complete conductor he need to tackle the Symphonic repertoire as well as that of Opera and Ballet. He conducted works from the caoncerto and Symphony repertoire, with some Romanian Symphony Orchestras in Iasi, Bacau, Botosani, Satu Mare, Timisoara, Constanta.

Employment History 1986-present Conductor at the Romanian Opera House in Iasi 1994-1995 Guest conductor at the Bacau Symphonic Orchestra 1994-1998 Opera class and Orchestra professor at the Iasi Music Academy 1998-present Guest conductor at the Brasov Lyric Theatre

REPERTOIRE as CONDUCTOR:

Verdi: Ernani, Traviata, Nabucco, Un Ballo in Maschera, Rigoletto
Puccini: Tosca, Madama Butterfly, La boheme Bizet:Carmen Gounod:
Faust Boito: Mefistofele Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Mozart: Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Don Pasquale
Strauss: Die Fledermaus, Wiener Blut Lehar: La vedova allegra
Herve: Mam'zelle Nitouche
Kalman: Silvia Cimarosa: Il matrimonio segreto
Wolf-Ferrari: Die vier Grobiane
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Nutcracker
Minkus: Do Quixote
Delibes: Coppelia
Prokofiev: La Cenerentola
The opera, operetta and ballet repertoire also contains a number of Romanian titles.

WORKS:

6 Lieder cycles for voice and piano, 3 String Quartets, 2 Concertos for Violin and String Orchestra, 1 Chamber Symphony, 1 Clarinet Sonata, 1 Cello Sonata and 2 operas: "The Awful Suicide from the Fidelity Street", drawn from the work Of I.L. Caragiale (one of the well known Romanian writers) and "The Taming of the Shrew", taken from Shakespeare.

Mr. DUMITRIU invites you to contact him as follows:

Address: Leonard DUMITRIU
Sos. Nicolina nr. 58, Bl. 981, Sc. C, ap. 10 6600
Iasi, ROMANIA
Phone: 0040-32-221500 (day and night)
e-mail: leodu@uaic.ro

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