Ana-Maria Avram

Ana-Maria Avram (1961-2017) was a Romanian composer, pianist and conductor, born in Bucharest. With her husband Iancu Dumitrescu she co-directed the Hyperion Ensemble and became a leading figure of Romanian spectral music, writing works where timbre is the main material and where instrumental and electroacoustic sources are combined. Avram studied composition at the Bucharest conservatory from 1980 to 1985 and later music aesthetics at the Sorbonne in Paris. She joined Hyperion in 1988 and toured Europe with the ensemble.