URUC, Cristina

Cristina Uruc was born in Constanta, Romania, on the 18th of January 1988. She began her musical studies (piano) in 1994 at the Queen Mary National College of Arts in her hometown. In 2006 she began studying composition at the National Music University from Bucharest (UNMB) under the guidance of composer and professor Livia Teodorescu Ciocănea. She graduated in June 2010 with „Contraste“ clarinet concerto which has been performed by the Symphonia Orchestra of the UNMB in the Opera Studio Hall of the UNMB and also by the “Ion Dumitrescu” Philharmonic Orchestra from Ramnicu Valcea. Her composition portfolio includes works for chamber ensembles, solo instruments, pieces for orchestra and a clarinet concerto. Her compositions have been awarded numerous prizes: Ist prize at the National Composition Competitions „Mihail Jora” (Bucharest, 2010) and „Paul Constantinescu” (Ploiesti, 2008) , Finalist of the International Composition Competition „Eduardo Ocon” (Spain, 2010), IIIrd prize ex-aequo at the International Composition Competition „From Romanticism to Contemporary”(Bucharest, 2009), Best Composition ex-aequo at the IconArts International Competition (Sibiu, 2008), among others.