Artist Info: Hyperion Ensemble

HYPERION ENSEMBLE was founded in 1976 by the composer Iancu Dumitrescu.


As a starting point, Hyperion explored possible connections between the most archaic Romanian music - Byzantine music, folk music collected by Bartok, etc. - and today’s avant-garde music.


It is a tradition of performance, of interpreting each new score as a provocation of the spirit, and a quest for new domains of sound. Aesthetically, at the heart of this work is the notion of spectrality as it developed in the work of Dumitrescu [read more...]