Carmen Maria Cârneci was born in Romania. She first studied composition in Bucharest, later specialized in Freiburg, Germany, on a three years DAAD scholarship as a student of Klaus Huber.
She attended also conducting classes with Kurt Masur, Pierre Boulez and Peter Eötvös, a.o. Cârneci won scholarships in Italy, France and England, and conducting prizes in Austria and Germany. She earned her doctorate degree in music at the National University of Music Bucharest.
As a composer she received important awards in Mannheim, Rome, Köln, Bucharest, as well as commissions from The City Opera in Bonn, Donaueschinger Musiktage, the Ensemble für neue music Zürich, a.o. She was invited both as a conductor and a composer to important festivals (Dresden, Heidelberg, Zürich, Saarbrücken, Paris, Hong Kong), and was artistic director of the International New Music Week in Bucharest 2005, 2006. She is presently artistic director and conductor of the devotioModerna ensemble, also manager for the concert department of the National Museum George Enescu in Bucharest.
Among her works - published by Ricordi-München, Furore Edition-Kassel, Editura Muzicala-Bucharest - are The Garden, Das Hohelied, Trojtza, Semanterion-Toaca, O, viridissima, REm - Cello concerto, -embER, and the opera GIACOMETTI, premiered by the Neues Theater für Musik in Bonn under the composer’s baton.
Other links:
http://www.klassika.info/Komponisten/Carneci_CM/index.html
http://www.ricordi.de/carneci-carmen-maria.0.html
http://soundcloud.com/carmencarneci
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Maria_Carneci
http://www.cimec.ro/muzica/ucmr2007/