Composer Dan Dediu's guest lecture Presented by Liszt Academy

"The lecture will go into some details of my personal compositional process, focusing on the modal scales I work with, the melodic development processes I use (fractal layering in particular), the modularity of phrases, non-retrogradable melodies, but also non-retrogradable musical forms, circular melodies, thematic layering found in several of my compositions in the form of a rhizomatic structure: runes (historical memes), gestures, motifs, themes, quotations, 'theme-form'."

Dan Dediu graduated in composition from the Academy of Music in Bucharest in 1989, where he studied with Stefan Niculescu, Dan Constantinescu, Dan Buciu, and Octavian Nemescu. He later attended postgraduate courses with Francis Burt, Günter Kahowez and Wilhelm Zobl at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna in 1990–91, as well as the annual Cursus de Composition et Informatique Musicale at IRCAM in 1994. He earned his PhD at the National University of Music in Bucharest in 1995.