History of Music
translation and adaptation of Romanian Multimedia Addenda
at the Book "Who's afraid of the History of Music?!"
Professor PhD Carmen Chelaru, "George Enescu" National University of Arts, Iași - Romania
For more than twenty-five years now I am teaching the History of Music. I noticed that History, including the musical one, is usually attended in many ways, depending on the cultural, geographical, religious, psychological, etc. criteria.
I therefore decided to translate in English my multimedia lessons, thus sharing opinions and experience with people, wherever they are.
Carmen Chelaru, musicologist, Professor PhD
Born in Iași, in 1955.
She studied violin, then musicology at "George Enescu" Conservatory of Iași (graduation in 1980). She also has been participated in Piatra Neamț’s summer courses of Stylistics and Musical Analyses led by the composers Ștefan Niculescu, Anatol Vieru and Aurel Stroe (1977–1979), as well as those of Musical Byzantine Palaeography and Byzantinology of Professor Gheorghe Ciobanu (1978–1979).
From 1992, Carmen Chelaru joined "George Enescu" National University of Arts from Iași/ Romania – discipline History of Music.
In 2013 she became Professor PhD at the Faculty of Musical Performance, Composition and Music Theory Studies. Between 1998-2019 she was associate professor at the Piatra Neamț Department of “Gheorghe Dima” National Music Academy of Cluj-Napoca.
In 2004, Carmen Chelaru performed her doctoral dissertation on the theme Music Space.
Carmen Chelaru published books, researches, scientific articles, papers at international congresses, national and local scientific meetings, musical critics, essays. She also collaborated in radio and TV shows.
Between 2011–2016 she has been Senior Editor of "Filarmonica Magazin" musical review of Iași Philharmonic Society and in January 2017, she coordinated "Arta-supliment" musical review of "George Enescu" University of Arts Iași.
Between 1987-2016, Carmen Chelaru has been music secretary of Iași Philharmonic Society. She managed the regular concert seasons of the Iași Philharmonic: the Orchestra, the Academic Choir, the chamber ensembles, national and international festivals - among others the Romanian Music Festival of Iași, editions 11th-19th.
From 2008 she is member of the Romanian Composers and Musicologists.
On December 22, 2019, a group of former students paid us a visit to perform Christmas carols...
2016, November. Flashmob with "T.T. Burada" traditional music ensemble from Iași University of Arts and Iași TV Channel.
The Book of Honor of the Iași Conservatory returned Home!
The Iași Conservatory Book of Honor was initiated in 1926, when the headmaster of the institution was the cello teacher Nicolae Theodorescu (between 1924-1930). I tried to describe the adventure of this document of great importance for the history of Iaşi culture, in the following episodes: personalities and events mentioned in the Book; the disappearance of the Book from the Conservatory archive in 1950, under circumstances still unclear; rediscovery and presence in D. Grumăzescu's collection; returning to the patrimony of the "George Enescu" National University of Arts, in Iasi. See the whole story here.
Technical Support: George Chelaru