"Composer, pianist, conductor, born in 1961 in Bucharest, Romania.1980-1985 - she accomplished studies of composition at the National University of Music- Bucharest1992 DEA of musical aesthetics at Sorbonne Paris1994 Great Prize of the Romanian AcademySince 1988 she is a Member of Hyperion Ensemble from Bucharest -group of composers and interpreters representing a new, experimentalist and innovative direction in Romanian music, she realized a lot of European tours, as well as conductor and composer.Her music incorporates the outward semblences of abstraction ofarchetypal sound, achieving its full development in the synthesis ofelectroacoustic and instrumental sources.Her music is affiliated with the spectral music trend. She represents with Iancu Dumitrescu the Hyper-Spectral trend in contemporary avant-garde music. Conductor with Dumitrescu of the Hyperion Ensemble.

Her music is spectral, acousmatic, heterophonic and transformational. She composed since now around 130 works, music for soloists, chamber music, music for orchestra, electronic music and computer assisted musicHer main works are : Threnia I-II , Orbit of Eternal Grace fororchestra and soloists, Ekagrata , Swarms , Seconde Axe , Un Aaggio Ardente for chamber orchestra, De Sacrae Lamentationem, InNomine Lucis , Chaosmos- for large orchestra, Zodiaque I-IV, Notturno I-II , Labyrinthe I-III , Signum Gemini , Ikarus I-IV , Traces, Sillons, Sillages, Doryphories , New Arcana, Ascent, Voices of the Desert, Telesma I-VII- electronic & instrumental music, Archae , Ç Metaboles , Axe , Quatre Etudes d'ombre, Ikarus-Kronos Quartet , Assonant I-III - instrumental andchamber musics, Horridas Nostrae Mentis Purga Tenebras, Nouvel Archae - computer assisted music.Her music is published by Edition Modern, Electrecord, EdituraMuzicala, Artgallery, ReR Megacorp, Musicworks, Bananafish..Her music was performed in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Stanford, in Vienna (in the Wien Modern Festival in 1992 and 1994) at Paris (several times at Radio France and Theatre de la Ville ), in London (at Royal Festival Hall, Conway Hall, LSO St Luke's) Nancy, Allicante, Lisbon, Baden-Baden, Darmstadt, Moscow, Belgarde, Berlin,Minneapolis, etc.

Her works has been commissioned by prestigious ensembles such asKronos Quartet (San Francisco) Ç 20 Jahrhundert È from Vienna, soloists from l'Orchestre National de France, orchestras as Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra, Romanian National Orchestra, Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, L'Orchestre de Chambre de Roumanie, etc.On the Abolition of the Soul - a Radio France commission was released on a double CD- Radio France, as an anthology of Prix Italia since 1949.Her music was commissioned by: Radio-France, Kronos Quartet, CCMIX (Paris) , Ars Nova Ensemble, Musiques Nouvelles (Mons), Ensemble Lucilin ( Luxembourg), Enemble Mosaik ( Berlin), Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique Bourges.Founder and director, with Iancu Dumitrescu, of the International Festival of Electronic andc Computer Music "Acousmania" Bucharest, - in partnership with Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation, "Musica Nova" International festival (Ploiesti), Spectrum XXI -(Paris, London, Geneva, Nrussels, Berlin, Mons, Bucharest), Siberfest 2007 ( Sibiu).Founder of the Romanian Community of Electronic and Computer Music ( 2004) . Vice- President of CIME ( Intenational Cummunity of Electronic Music - UNESCO).Edited by : " Edition Modern " ( London) , " Electrecord " (Bucharest) ,"Artgallery " (Paris ) , " ReR Megacorp " (London) , " Bananafish " (Los Angeles) , " Musicworks " (Toronto).Musicological contributions in" Musica "- Bucharest, " Bananafish "-Los Angeles, " Musicworks " - Toronto " ""- Bucarest, Axis Mundi, 1992. & CREMAC- 2006 - in collaboration with Harry Halbreich."

"Tim Hodgkinson (b. 1949) studied social anthropology at Cambridge, and co-founded the politically and musically radical group HENRY COW with Fred Frith in 1968. In addition to composing, he has a long involvement in improvisation, and came back to anthropology in the 1990's with research into music and shamanism in Siberia.

He has participated in many concerts with Iancu Dumitrescu's Hyperion Ensemble both as bass clarinetist and composer and conductor. His compositions have been interpreted in such international festivals as: Spectrum XXI (Brussels, Paris, Geneva, , Berlin, London), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (U.K.) where he was a featured composer in 2007, Craiova and Ploiesti Festivals (Romania), Guarda Festival (Portugal), Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte di Montepulciano (Italy), Konfrontationen Festival (Austria), Nordlyd Festival (Norway), Musique Action (France) and the European Symposium of Experimental Music at Barcelona.

His Piece for Harp and Cello was selected for the SPNM shortlist in 2005. His composition SHHH was accepted for the IMEB electroacoustic music archive at Bourges in 2006. His piece Fragor appeared in the Martin Scorsese film Shutter Island in 2010. He has worked with Hyperion Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, Ne(X)tworks, the Bergersen String Quartet, London Sinfonietta, Insomnio Ensemble, Phoenix Ensemble, Basler Schlagzeug Trio, Nidaros Slagverkensemble, Bindou Ensemble.

As an improvising musician on reeds and lap steel guitar Tim Hodgkinson has performed all over the world with many of the most acclaimed artists in the field, and continues to be fully engaged in the celebrated Konk Pack trio with Roger Turner and Thomas Lehn. In 2009 he released KLARNT - a CD of solo clarinet improvisations.

With Ken Hyder, and Gendos Chamzyryn from Tuva, he works in the K-Space project: numerous tours of Europe and Siberia and CD releases - including INFINITY, a set of recordings that uses customised software to re-compose the music with each listening. In 2009, K-Space developed a sound-installation for the exhibition Shamans of Siberia at the Museum of Ethnology in Stuttgart.

As a writer, he has published articles and reviews on improvised music, musique concrète, spectralism, the ethnomusicology of shamanism, and the aesthetic problems of the impact of new technology on contemporary music - in, amongst others, Perspectives of New Music, Arcana, Contemporary Music Review, Musicworks, The Wire, Cambridge Anthropology, Variant, Rer Quarterly, and Resonance Magazine. His book, MUSIC AND THE MYTH OF WHOLENESS will be published by MIT in January 2016.

He has given lectures, workshops and seminars at Cagliari and Lyon Conservatoires, at the Institute of Contemporary Art, at Goldsmiths College and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, at Istanbul, Edinburgh and Cornell Universities, and art schools in several European countries, at COMA summer school, and at the Verband für Aktuelle Musik in Hamburg where he was artist in residence in 2010."

"Hyperion Ensemble is a chamber music ensemble from Romania, based in Bucharest. It was founded in 1976 by composer Iancu Dumitrescu and specializes in the performance of contemporary classical music, more particular it is the main promoter in Romania of the Spectral Music trend. Hyperion performed all over the world, and premiered the major works of Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram Hyperion Ensemble's performances are hyper-spectralist, transformational and acousmatic. Hyperion Ensemble realized many broadcastings for Radio Shows and a lot of LPs and Compact-Disc, particularly the 24 CD series with Dumitrescu and Avram's music."