LIVE CONCERT IN NEW YORK-March, 2009.
The music was played on the MNN TV show, Juin, 2009 (New York).
To listen some excerpts, click on the album "TO LOVE AND TO BE LOVED".
Petroi, a highly original composer from Belgrade via Paris and a recent NYC transplant, performs his solo piano compositions, “TO LOVE AND TO BE LOVED”, composed in 2005/2006 .
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Ionel Petroi is a composer-pianist whose highly individual style is characterized by the unique rhythmic energy, expressive lyricism and inventive musical structures. Much of his music is influenced by Eastern Europe rhythms and melodies sometimes involving quarter tones (period 1984-1995), which in its entirety creates music of exceptional vitality.
Petroi, has written over forty works for orchestra, solo piano, violin, voice, chamber ensembles, opera, ballet as well as music with data processing device. His works have been performed by the Belgrade Philharmonic, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg, the Orchestre d’lle de France, the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, the Ensemble Itineraire (Paris) the Ensemble Barcelona 216, the Ensemble Modern (Moscow), the cello octet of Beauvais (France), the Trio Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt), the Ensemble Die Reihen of Vienna, the Ensemble Erwartung (Paris), the Ensemble Archaeus (Bucharest), the Ambrosia Trio (New York), the San Francisco Ensemble, the soloists of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de France and many other soloists.
Many of his works were broadcast for radio and television, by radio France, TF1, FR2, FR3 and Canal plus, as well as in Germany, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Luxembourg Spain, Yugoslavia, Romania, Russia and the USA.
Besides being a prolific classical composer, Petroi is an active film composer. He has composed film scores for fourteen films from various French, Canadian, Switzerland and Belgian and American productions, some of which have been presented at festivals in Cannes, Venice, Chicago, London, Kiev, Toronto and Stuttgart.
Universal Music Publishing MGB France-Durand, Ricordi, Salabert and IBOX publish his music.
ITunes, Yahoo Music, Best Buy, Rhapsody, Napster, MSN Music etc. .... and CD Baby distribute his music.
For more information:
e-mail: iboxmusic@hotmail.com
http://web.mac.com/petroi
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