Adrian Mocanu is a composer born in 1989 in Kyiv. He studied at the National Music Academy of Ukraine and at Centro Superior de Enseñanza Musical Katarina Gurska, and his works have been awarded such competitions as the 38th Frederic Mompou International Award (Barcelona, 2017), 5th Mauricio Kagel Composition Competition (Vienna, 2022) or XXXIII Young Composers Prize by the SGAE Foundation (Madrid, 2022). Among the residencies he carried out where the Gaude Polonia program of the Ministry of Culture of Poland, a scholarship of Casa de Velázquez and the ‘Postcolonial Recherche’ project with Ensemble Recherche. His works were performed in numerous countries such as Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Serbia, Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Brazil and USA.

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