Famous Moldovan composer marks 70th birthday anniversary

Chisinau, 21 March /MOLDPRES/ - Composer, university professor, PhD in music, Arts Master, laureate of the State Prize Tudor Chiriac marks his 70th birthday anniversary today.   

Tudor Chiriac was born in the Ciuciuleni village, central Nisporeni district, on 21 March 1949. In 1970, he finished the Stefan Neaga Music College and in 1975 – the Chisinau-based Gavriil Musicescu State Institute of Arts, Composing Faculty. Chiriac made probations in composing and orchestration under the guidance of professor Yuriy Fortunatov at the P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatoire. Afterwards, Tudor Chiriac made doctoral studies in composing at the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy from Cluj, Romania, (2001-2005), which he finished with maintaining the thesis of PhD.      

Tudor Chiriac started his professional work as concertmaster at the Doina Choir. Afterwards, he was teacher of music theory, solfeggio, harmony, analysis of music works at the Stefan Neaga Music College from Chisinau (1975-1979). Chiriac was member of the college of the Culture Ministry for the procurement of art values (1979-1981), deputy head of Moldova’s Union of Composers and Musicologists of Moldova (1993), artistic director of the National Philharmonic from Chisinau (1993-1994). In 1987, he worked as lecturer at the Gavriil Musicescu State Conservatoire of Chisinau. Beginning with 1995, Chiriac moved to live in Iasi, Romania. He carried out teaching activity at the George Enescu National University of Arts from Iasi as university lecturer and delivered courses of theory of instruments, orchestration and arrangements, music’s semantics discipline and wrote a study titled, Semantics of Music – Fundamental Principles.    

Tudor Chiriac composed music of various genres, including for theatre plays and movies.  

Chiriac composed music with lyrics by more famous Moldovan writers and poets. The Miorita poem for voice and organ brought him renown, as it was included by the UNESCO International Music Council among the best ten works of the world (1986), being recommended for signing, editing and spread throughout the world.  

Tudor Chiriac was awarded the Boris Glavan Prize of the Youth from the Moldovan Soviet Republic in 1979, the State Prize of Moldova for the Miorita poem (1988), the Euroinvent Gold Medal for the cantata and concert De la Tiras pân’la Tissa (From Tiras up to Tissa) (2013) and the Euroinvent Gold Medal for the musical fairy-tale Carmina Daciae (2017).