Liviu Danceanu – born in 1954, in Roman, Danceanu graduated the National University of Music in Bucharest in 1980, where he studied composition with Stefan Niculescu. He has a master degree at the same University, studying as well at the International Seminary of Composition in Kasimiersz-Dolny (Poland, 1984) with Xenakis, Kotonsky and Paul Petterson. He is the founder and artistic director of Archaeus, one of the most prestigious and world-known Romanian contemporary music ensembles. He was twice the artistic director of the International Music Week in Bucharest, as well as the director of festivals such as Archaeus (Bucharest) or The Contemporary Music Days (Bacau). He has an intense international activity as a composer, being played and invited at festivals all over the world, as well as a teaching career at the National University of Music in Bucharest (since 1990). He has won numerous awards, such as Studium de Toulouse (France, 1986), the George Enescu Romanian Academy Prize (1989) or Antidogma musica (Torino, 1994). Danceanu has written so far over 90 works in almost all genres.