ongoing

Azrieli Music Prizes 2026

Montreal, Canada

laureate of the Azrieli Commission for International Music from the Azreli Foundation

https://azrielifoundation.org/amp/2026-amp-laureates/

Real Academia de España en Roma

Rome, Italy

artist-in-residence at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome for the year 2025/2026

https://www.accademiaspagna.org/portfolio/adrian-mocanu/

Malévoz Quartier Culturel

Monthey, Switzerland

artist-in-residence, developping the installation "Presque ici, nulle part ailleurs"

https://malevozculturel.ch/artistes/

past

october 1, 2025

premiere of "invocazioni delle creature" at the Basílica de Jesús de Medinaceli in Madrid. Concert of the International Composition Competition San Francisco de Asís 2025, performed by Noelia Ibañez (mezzo-soprano) and Josu Okiñena (piano)

https://www.oeoficina.com/es/evento/0129-2025-10-01-concurso-internacional-de-composicion-san-francisco-de-asis-basilica-de-jesus-de-medinaceli-madrid

august 2025

"invocazioni delle creature" winning the first edition of the International Composition Competition San Francisco de Asís 2025 in San Sebastián, Spain

https://www.oeoficina.com/es/noticias/0031-2025-08-04-adrian-mocanu-es-el-ganador-de-la-primera-edicion-del-concurso-internacional-de-composicion-san-francisco-de-asis-2025%C2%A0

july 6, 2025

madrigali guerrieri. libro I & libro II for six voices

performed by Maulwerker

Grosser Wasserspeicher, Berlin

https://www.maulwerker.de/current

april-june 2025

artistic residency at the Schleswig-Holstein Künstlerhaus otte1

in Eckernförde, Germany

https://www.otte1.org/en/scholars/

september 28, 2024

premiere of "...y mis tristes ojos ciegan, hechos río" for voice and orchestra, commissioned by DEBUT Classical Singing Competition ​in Weikersheim, Germany

september 13, 2024

premiere of "cuando se perdió en el agua" by Maulwerker ​

at Ballhaus Ost, Berlin

https://www.ballhausost.de/transfigurationen/

june 9, 2024

premiere of "madrigali guerrieri. libro I" by Maulwerker in Berlin, realized in the frame of the Weltoffenes Berlin Fellowship from the Senate of Berlin and the artistic residency with Maulwerker​

https://www.field-notes.berlin/en/kalende/maulwerker-orteraume-

march-april 2024

Artistic residency in the frame of the Odyssée program of the ACCR - Association des Centres culturels de rencontre, carried out in the Centre culturel d'Ambronay and Les Amis de l'Esparrou

https://formation.ambronay.org/actualites/Le-compositeur-Adrian-Mocanu-en-residence-au-CCR-i4495.html

february 2024

Second stage of the artistic residency of Juventudes Musicales de España and Cerezales Antonino y Cinia Foundation (Cerezales del Condado, Spain), the premiere of "tras las aguas leteas" for saxophone quartet by Lítore Quartet.

november 2023

Composer-in-Residence at Juventudes Musicales de España. Artistic residency at the Cerezales Antonino y Cinia Foundation (Cerezales del Condado, Spain), the premiere of "espejismos del alba" for accordion by Juan Matías.​

https://fundacionsgae.org/actualidad/adrian-mokanu-protagoniza-la-segunda-edicion-de-las-residencias-jme-fcayc/

november 26, 2023

Premiere of 'il canto della foresta' for double-bell trumpet and electronics by Marco Blaauw (Ensemble Musikfabrik) in Cologne.​

https://www.musikfabrik.eu/en/calendar/wavespace-madrigale/

october 27, 2023

Premiere of 'cantos babilónicos' for voice and live electronics by Duo Voicetronics at NeoArte festival in Gdansk, Poland​

https://neoarte.pl/en/programme/

october 6, 2023

"et ades sera l'alba" for flute performed by Carin Levine at Festival Mixtur in Barcelona + lecture at ESMUC

https://mixturbcn.com/en/programa-2023/adrian-mokanuhttps://mixturbcn.com/en/programa-2023/carin-levine-2

september 8, 2023

Premiere of 'Kiovia: esplorazioni delle tenebre' by IEMA-Ensemble in at Gaudemanus Muziekweek (Utrecht, Neterlands)​

https://gaudeamus.nl/en/events/gaudeamus-festival-2023-friday/iema-ensemble/

september 2023

Electroacoustic installation 'timpul lupilor' at Cămine în mișcare festival in Timișoara, Romania​

https://camineinmiscare.ro/event/timpul-lupilor/

june 2023

Widerstand der Klänge. New Music from Ukraine (Bonn, Germany)​

Ensemble Musikfabrik and Natalia Pschenitschnikova perform works for voice and ensebmle: "este amoroso tormento", "waren wir, sind wir, werden" and "reflections of quiet things"

https://www.musikfabrik.eu/en/calendar/kreuzung-an-st-helena/

march 2023

fuentes y ríos fuego arderán for recorder, continuo organ, baroque violin and viola da gamba commissioned by Continuum XXI and premiered at concerts in Dresden in Berlin​

https://www.continuumxxi.com/project/musik-der-extreme-3-en/

december 2022

Premiere of 'les chevaux de feu' by Ensemble Recherche in Freiburg as a result of the Postcolonial Recherche artistic residency​

https://www.ensemble-recherche.de/fellows

july-december 2022

Artistic residency at Casa de Velázquez - Académie de France à Madrid with a special scholarship from Academie des beaux-arts of Paris​

https://www.casadevelazquez.org/es/investigacion/proximas-actividades/novedad/la-ciudad-universitaria-de-madrid-y-la-casa-de-velazquez/

november 2022

second award of XXXIII Premio Jóvenes Compositores SGAE-CNDM in Madrid for the piece 'gli otri di Eolo'

https://fundacionsgae.org/actualidad/finalistas-del-xxxiii-premio-jovenes-compositores-fundacion-sgae-cndm-2022/

february 4, 2022

second prize at 5th Mauricio Kagel Composition Competition in Vienna for the piece 'la piccola fiammiferaia' for piano

https://www.mdw.ac.at/mauricio-kagel/?PageId=4110