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Ana-Maria Avram
Person · female · Romania · Bucharest · born 1961 · died 2017 · recording since 1989
Romanian composer (1961-2017)
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Also known as 安娜-玛丽娅·艾弗拉姆
Timeline
20 events▣ Album 17◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1† Death 1
1960s
1980s
· Debut release
Debut release: Ana-Maria Avram / Irina Hasnaș
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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1990s
· Album
Album: Au delà de movemur / Monades / Ekagrata / Signum Gemini / Zodiaque (III)
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Album: Dumitrescu: Mnémosyne / Impulse / Clusterum I / Avram: Quatre études d’ombre / Assonant III / Métaboles
Album
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Album: Dumitrescu: Meteors & Pulsars / Profondis / Origo / Avram: Chaosmos / Axe
Album
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Album: Avram: Second Archae / Axe (II) / Dumitrescu: Pulses & Univers Reborn (I) / New Zenith (II)
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2000s
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Album: Avram: Telesma (II) / Apokatastasis / Dumitrescu: Objet sonore mysterieux (I) / Diachronies (III) / Objet sonore mysterieux (II)
Album
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Album: Avram: Incantatio / Quinconce / Dumitrescu: Remote Pulsar (I) / Movemur (III) / Numerologie secrète (I)
Album
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Album: Avram: Galaxy-Reflection (I) / Quatre études d'ombre / Lux animae (II) / Dumitrescu: Remote Pulsar (II) / Clusterum (II) / Numérologie secrète (II)
Album
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Album: Avram: Quatre études orphiques (III) / Endless Burning Fire (II) / Dumitrescu: Étude granulaire à Bourges / Mise en abîme / Étude granulaire (II) / Nucléons chaotiques / Transe
Album
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Album: Avram: Nouvelle Axe (V) / Ikarus / Dumitrescu: Spectrum (VI) / Perspective au movemur
Album
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2010s
2020s
Biography
English biography256 words · 3 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1309704774
Biography
Ana-Maria Avram (1961– 1 August 2017) was a Romanian composer, pianist, conductor and musicologist. Avram was the co-conductor of the Hyperion Ensemble and co-founder and artistic director of the Spectrum XXI festival, which was designed to showcase innovative Romanian music.
Biography
Avram was born in 1961 in Bucharest, Romania. She attended the National University of Music Bucharest from 1980 to 1985, after which she studied aesthetics at Sorbonne, Paris. She was also the co-director of Hyperion Ensemble with her husband Iancu Dumitrescu, who founded the ensemble in 1976. The ensemble toured in Romania, France, and the UK. Avram also took on an administrative role by creating Spectrum XXI festival, which was designed to showcase innovative Romanian music. Avram was an early member of the Romanian community of electronic and computer music. Avram composed commissions for ensembles such as the Kronos Quartet, 20 Jahrhundert from Vienna, and orchestras including Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra, the Romanian National Orchestra, the Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, and Radio-France.
Avram died suddenly on 1 August 2017 at the age of fifty-five. She continues to have performances of her works after her death, like Issue Projects Room's "Tombeau for Ana-Maria Avram" concert.
Musical style
Avram's music synthesized contemporary classical, improvisation, electro-acoustic- and electronic music. Her music tended to move between improvisation and notation and often used electronics to augment her sonic palette. Avram was a proponent of spectral music, and argued that spectralism is "a specific attitude towards sound" which encompasses "many different viewpoints". She composed around 130 pieces, and released 25 collaborative albums with her husband.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 11 | 61.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 20 | 87.1th |
| Studio albums | 17 | 95.5th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 20 | 93.9th |
| Recording span (years) | 28 | 62th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (20 release groups · 17 studio albums)
Albums · 17
Ana-Maria Avram / Irina Hasnaș
1989 · studio album
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Tracklist · 4 tracks · 45:36
A1Cîntecele singurătății12:42A2Trei piese pentru pian (Musique pour Mallarmé)9:15B1Cvartet de coarde (Evolutio III)16:38B2Melisme7:01Au delà de movemur / Monades / Ekagrata / Signum Gemini / Zodiaque (III)
1991 · studio album
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Tracklist · 5 tracks · 1:05:12
1Au delà de movemur10:552Monades: Gamma / Epsilon15:353Ekagrata10:244Signum Gemini11:545Zodiaque (III)16:241993 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks · 1:13:58
1Astree Lointaine15:222Source Du Commencement7:273Poissons Utopiques3:184Magma4:385Implosion Captive3:296Le Berceau De Fantasmes13:137Archae12:158Holzwege14:161995 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 1:09:15
1Mnémosyne13:392Impulse13:593Clusterum I8:464Quatre etudes d’ombre11:465Assonant III11:246Métaboles9:41Dumitrescu: Meteors & Pulsars / Profondis / Origo / Avram: Chaosmos / Axe
1998 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 1:00:31
1Meteors & Pulsars: 12Meteors & Pulsars: 23Meteors & Pulsars: 34Meteors & Pulsars: 45Meteors & Pulsars: 56Meteors & Pulsars: 67Meteors & Pulsars: 78Profondis16:009Origo14:5510Chaosmos16:0111Axe13:35Étoiles brisées / Anamorphosis / Seconde Axe
1998 · studio album
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Tracklist · 4 tracks · 58:20
1Étoiles brisées (I)15:152Étoiles brisées (II)16:103Anamorphosis12:204Seconde Axe14:35Avram: Second Archae / Axe (II) / Dumitrescu: Pulses & Univers Reborn (I) / New Zenith (II)
1998 · studio album
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Tracklist · 4 tracks · 53:21
1Second Archae15:102Axe (II)12:363Pulses & Univers Reborn (I)9:304New Zenith (II)16:052000 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 1:13:30
1Soleil explosant (I)13:592New Meteors (I)12:213Multiples (I)4:224Oiseaux célestes (II)16:515Traces, sillons, sillages16:516Doryphories (I)9:062001 · studio album
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Tracklist · 5 tracks · 1:08:21
1Objet sonore mysterieux (I)15:092Diachronies (III), op. 1b9:523Objet sonore mysterieux (II)15:464Telesma (II)14:345Apokatastasis13:002003 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 1:11:51
1Implosive Eternity8:022Abysses latents13:263Bolids & Contemplations (III): [Part 1]3:384Bolids & Contemplations (III): [Part 2]3:415Bolids & Contemplations (III): [Part 3]3:496Bolids & Contemplations (III): [Part 4]5:277Bolids & Contemplations (III): [Part 5]0:368Bolids & Contemplations (III): [Part 6]3:149Bolids & Contemplations (III): [Part 7]4:1910La Légende d'Icaire14:2711Penumbra (II)11:122003 · studio album
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Tracklist · 5 tracks · 1:10:54
1Remote Pulsar (I)11:552Movemur (III)10:443Numerologie secrète (I)13:324Incantatio20:435Quinconce14:002005 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 1:12:04
1Remote Pulsar (II)11:572Clusterum (II)8:363Numérologie secrète (II)13:504Galaxy-Reflection (I)10:285Quatre études d'ombre11:496Lux animae (II)15:242006 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 1:03:02
1La Chute dans le temps (I)10:302La Chute dans le temps (II)5:413Hic et nunc8:314Nucleons6:325Increat (I)14:366Increat (II)8:577Strange Attractor (I)8:152008 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 1:11:26
1Étude granulaire à Bourges11:012Mise en abîme13:453Étude granulaire (II)11:414Nucléons chaotiques / Transe9:455Quatre études orphiques (III)12:366Endless Burning Fire (II)12:38Avram: Nouvelle Axe (V) / Ikarus / Dumitrescu: Spectrum (VI) / Perspective au movemur
2008 · studio album
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Tracklist · 5 tracks · 1:10:45
1Spectrum (VI)18:522Perspectives au movemur14:233Nouvelle Axe (V)13:394Ikarus15:325Introduction8:192013 · studio album
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1Sound Source (I)17:002Vulcanoes (II)14:483Incandescent Midst15:004Chiaroscuro For Three Percussion Groups10:475Chiaroscuro For Three Cellos12:55Iancu Dumitrescu & Ana-Maria Avram at the GRM Paris
2020 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 1:15:35
1Crepescule52:012MetalStorm23:34
Album · 3
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
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| 1999 | Musique Action '98Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 4 tracks · 49:521New Meteors and Pulsars14:19 2Nouvelle Axe12:26 3Life on Earth13:32 4Black Death and Errors in Construction9:35 | Live | 1999 | |
| 2012 | Live in IsraelSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 4 tracks · 55:311Liminal Involvement (I)15:17 2Le Silence d'or (Israel version)12:16 3Lux animae XII16:14 4Telesma (Israel version)11:44 | Live | 2012 | |
| 2015 | Ilan Volkov Conducts and Plays Ana-Maria Avram and Iancu DumitrescuSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 4 tracks · 1:00:151Interferences and Loops (II)14:36 2Sound Agony (II)16:35 3Interference and Loops (I)13:55 4Sound Agony (I)15:09 | Live | 2015 |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Ana-Maria Avram head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 11 | 61.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 20 | 87.1th |
| Studio albums | 17 | 95.5th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 20 | 93.9th |
| Recording span (years) | 28 | 62th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
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https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b80a7b02-81e0-494a-a286-e6e849d59c5adiscography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b80a7b02-81e0-494a-a286-e6e849d59c5acore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q299060genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q299060seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana-Maria_Avrambiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana-Maria_Avram
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- List of composers by name
- List of Romanian musicians
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Wikidata: Q299060 · MusicBrainz: b80a7b02-81e0-494a-a286-e6e849d59c5a
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