Horatiu Radulescu

Born 7th January 1942 in Bucharest. French composer of Romanian birth. He studied the violin privately with Nina Alexandrescu, a pupil of Enescu, and subsequently composition at the Bucharest Academy of Music (MA 1969), where his teachers included Niculescu, Olah and Stroe, some of the leading figures of the newly emerging avant garde.
In 1969 Radulescu moved to Paris (he became a French citizen in 1974); here, initially inspired by Stockhausen, he began to develop his version of Spectral Music. In the early 1970s he attended classes given by Cage, Ligeti, Stockhausen and Xenakis at the Darmstadt summer courses, and by Ferrari and Kagel in Cologne; later, from 1979 to 1981, he studied computer-assisted composition and psycho-acoustics at IRCAM.
From the mid-1970s Radulescu’s works were performed at leading European festivals including La Rochelle, Metz, Royan and Donaueschingen; in 1983 he founded the ensemble European Lucero in Paris to perform his works, and in 1991 the Lucero Festival.