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, Avram and other Romanian composers - that is: a specifically transformational spectrality, as opposed to the structural spectrality of the French Itinéraire group.


Hyperion has performed all over Europe -and recently in United States, and recorded numerous LPs and 26 compact discs.


Today, HYPERION International represents a gathering of artists from various countries ( Romania, Israel, UK, USA, etc…) all dedicated and skilled in the interpretation of experimental and contemporary music

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