Mircea Tiberian
Mircea Tiberian was a Romanian jazz musician and academic who was a professor of music at the National University of Music in Bucharest. He coordinated the jazz department, which he set up in 1991.
Life and career
Tiberian spent his childhood and adolescence in Sibiu, Transylvania, where he made his debut at the International Jazz Festival in 1974. He held a doctorate in music. Tiberian later lived in Bucharest. He performed around the world with such musicians as Larry Coryell, Tomasz Stanko, Herb Robertson, John Betsch, Ed Shuller, Nicholas Simion, Adam Pierończyk, Maurice de Martin, Theo Jörgensmann and the Romanians Johnny Raducanu, Aura Urziceanu, Anca Parghel and Dan Mandrila. Tiberian died on 18 October 2025, at the age of 70.Awards
- Composers Union Award
- Romanian Musician of the Year Award
- The Enescu-Brancusi Scholarship granted by the Romanian Cultural Institute
Publications
Tehnica Improvizatiei in Muzica de Jazz, Editura UNMB, Bucharest, 2005Notes on Music and Music Notes, Editura Muzeului National al Literaturii Romane, Bucharest, 2005Cartea de muzica, Editura Tracus Arte, Bucharest, 2008Intercultural projects
Liniada, Agnus Dei, Les annes folles de Bucharest, Jazz and Cinema, Dark, Eurotique, Jazzy Tarot - musical – theatre Metropolis BucurestiDiscography
- Magic Bird
- Never Ending Story
- Working Underground
- Alone in Heaven
- Hotel of Three Beginnings
- Interzone
- Interzone plays with Adam Pieronczyk
- Crossing Atlas 45
- Eleven
- Back to my Angel
- Viata Lumii
- Lumini
- Palindrome
- Shining of the Abyss
- Notes on Music and Music Notes – double CD anthology
- Dark
- November
- ''Ulysses''