Ionel Petroi, European (romanian-serbian-french) composer-pianist whose highly individual style is characterized by the unique rhythmic energy, expressive lyricism and inventive musical structures.

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Ionel Petroi, European (romanian-serbian-french) composer-pianist whose highly individual style is characterized by the unique rhythmic energy, expressive lyricism and inventive musical structures. Much of his music is influenced by Eastern Europe and Gypsy-like rhythms and exotic melodies sometimes involving semi tones (period 1984-1995), which in its entirety creates music of exceptional vitality.

Petroi, has written over forty works for orchestra, solo piano, violin, voice, chamber ensembles, opera, ballet and also music with data processing device. His works have often been performed by the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Orchestra dâlle de France, The Belgrade Philharmonic, the Ensemble Barcelona 216,the Ensemble Modern (Moscow), the cello octet of Beauvais, Trio Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt), Die Reihen of Vienna Ensemble, Ensemble Erwartung, the Archaus Ensemble (Bucharest), the Ambrosia Trio (New York), the San Francisco Ensemble, the soloists of the Orchestra Philharmonique de Radio France and the Orchestra National de France.
Many of his works were broadcast for radio and television, by radio France, TF1, FR2, FR3 and Canal plus, as well as in Germany, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Luxembourg Spain, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Russia and the USA.

Besides being a prolific classical composer, Petroi is a very active film composer. He wrote full film scores for fifteen films from various French productions (list of films below), some of which have been presented at festivals in Cannes, Venice, Chicago, London, Kiev, Toronto and Stuttgart.

Ionel Petroi was born in 1958 in Uzdin, former Yugoslavia. He received his PhD in composition from the Belgrade Music Academy. There, he also studied piano and double bass. In 1982, he won a special prize âStevan Hristicâ for his symphonic work Dildi, which was performed by the Belgrade Philharmonic with Kristian Mandeal, conducting. In 1987, upon his arrival in Paris, he was the First prizewinner at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris. He also attended the training course of musical data processing at the IRCAM which is within the Conservatoire Superieur de Musique de Paris. In 1995, Petroi was a composer in residence in San Francisco.

BMG-Universal, Salabert, Durand and Ricordi publish his music.