Clarinet
EMIL VIȘENESCU
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Emil Vișenescu graduated from the National University of Music Bucharest in 1993 in the class of Prof. Ion Cudalbu and Valeriu Bărbuceanu. Between 2000-2002 he studied at the University of Music and Theatre Bern/Biel where he obtained a soloist diploma in the class of Prof. Ernesto Molinari. He attended master classes under the guidance of clarinetists Stephan Korody, Aurelian Octav Popa, Karl Leister, Walter Boeykens, Andrew Marriner, Martin Spangenberg, Joszef Balogh. 

Winner of the Aurelian Octav Popa-Constanța-1994, Jeunesse Musicales Bucharest 1996, he was awarded the Martha Moser-Biel (Switzerland)-2001 and Tschumi Musik Preis- Bern (Switzerland)-2002 scholarships. Since 1993 he has been a member of the George Enescu Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra in Bucharest, and since 2014 he has been a lecturer at U.N.M.B. Between 2008-2011, he attended doctoral studies at U.N.M.B. under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Șerban-Dimirie Soreanu, for the completion of his work Clarinet concertant in masterpieces of Romanian musical creation. Under the same mentor, between 2012-2013, he pursued post-doctoral studies concluded with the synthesis work Phenomenology of musical interpretation from a soloist and conductor perspective. In 2014 he released the book entitled The Fascinating Clarinet in Romanian Musical Creation. Member of the trio Mozaic, the Profil Simfonietta ensemble and the orchestras Virtuosos in Bucharest and Royal Chamber Orchestra. Soloist of the orchestras of Constanța, Râmnicu-Vâlcea, Ploiești, Satu-Mare, Craiova, Târgoviște, Giurgiu, Pitești, Timișoara, Bacău, Iași, Arad, Bacău, Oradea of the Philarmonia Orchestra Bucharest and of the Icon Arts Orchestra Sibiu, the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chamber and National Radio Orchestras of Bucharest, the Symphony Orchestras of Biel, Bern, Dresden, Chisinau and the Ludus Ensemble-Bern. He has given recitals in the international festivals SIMN, Meridian, George Enescu. 

An important number of composers have dedicated concertante and chamber works to Emil Vișenescu. They were presented to the public for the first time and were specially recorded at the Radio and later printed on numerous compact discs. Among the composers are Adrian Iorgulescu, Sabin Pautza, Doina Rotaru, Felicia Donceanu, Carmen Cârneci, Diana Rotaru, Adrian Enescu, Octavian Nemescu, Nicolae Brânduș, Dan Dediu, Vasile Timiș, Șerban Nichifor. Emil Vișenescu was invited as a member of the juries of the international competitions Jeunesses Musicales – Bucharest, Gheorghe Dima – Cluj, Sava Dimitrov – Sofia-Bulgaria and of the national competitions Marțian Negrea – Ploiești, Lira de Aur – Suceava. As a clarinet teacher, he held master classes in Cisnădie/Sibiu, Bistrița, Eforie Sud, Sighișoara, Cluj, Brașov, Jerusalim-Israel, Oldenburg-Germany, Zurich-Switzerland and Sao Paolo-Brazil. 

He is the initiator of the Clarino project, an ensemble of UNMB clarinet students, whose aim is to promote them on concert stages in Romania and abroad, with a varied repertoire including romantic, modern and contemporary music. Clarino is the ensemble to which a large number of composers have dedicated works, which were then presented in first auditions, and represents a laboratory in which young musicians polish their musical talent and develop their personality. Between 2015 and 2017 he attended the UNMB Master’s courses in orchestral conducting, under the supervision of Prof. Dumitru Goia. Since 2017 he has conducted symphony orchestras in Craiova, Brașov, Pitești, Ploiești, Râmnicu-Vâlcea and Chișinău. In 2018 he founded a chamber orchestra, with which he initiated a project for an opera and ballet performance, aiming to present two masterpieces to the public: Dido and Aeneas by Henri Purcell and Apollon Musagettes by Igor Stravinsky.