Vlad Răzvan Baciu
Vlad Răzvan Baciu is a prolific composer, whose
portfolio includes more than 100 orchestral works, choral works, operas, and
chamber music pieces. Baciu has been awarded multiple musical composition
scholarships in Romania, Germany, Netherlands, Estonia, Greece, and Bulgaria,
and has participated in several prestigious American, Canadian and European
Union competitions, receiving prizes and 7 platinum medals and the Golden Medal
for Conducting at the World Exceptional Musicians Competition. In 2020, he was
invited to reside at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced
Studies) in Delmenhorst, Germany as Artist-in-Residence where he composed the
“Candle of the Soul” opera.
In 2021, Vlad Baciu received the prestigious Fulbright
Scholarship to conduct a research on the American Contemporary Music and
compose chamber and symphonic works at Indiana University, Jacobs School of
Music. In 2010, Vlad became president of the Heart-Core Cultural NGO, which is
involved in more than 300 various cultural projects, with a special focus on
promoting contemporary music and music education. In 2024, Vlad was awarded the
Prizes of the Union of Composers and Musicologists of Romania and of Republic
of Moldova.