Costel / Puscoiu Autumn Songs CD

Costel Puscoiu was born on 29th August, 1951 in Bucharest, Romania. He studied at the "Ciprian Porumbescu" College of Music in Bucharest, and graduated there, majoring in Composition and Theory. In Romania he worked as a music teacher, and for a few years he was a conductor and researcher at the Institute for Ethnology and Folklore in Bucharest. He was also a member of the Society of Romanian Composers. His compositions comprise symphonic music (symphonies, cantatas, suites, concerto for viola), chamber music (string quartets, sonata for clarinet and piano, contemporary music for several ensembles, music pieces for panflute), choir pieces and filmscores. His compositions are often influenced by Romanian folklore and Byzantine liturgies. He is also the author of several musicological and folkloristic studies and articles. In September 1982 he preferred the Netherlands to his native Romania, and now he works as a panflute teacher and as the leader of an orchestra at The Free Academy in Delft (the music-school department) and at The Music-School in Krimpen a/d IJssel. Meanwhile he has become a member of the Dutch Composers Association and the president of the Dutch Panflute Foundation.In the last years Costel Puscoiu has become one of Europe’s leading panflute teachers. He has developed and published a complete pedagogy of panflute study: basic methods, several music books with arrangements (classical, folksongs, carols, etc.) and his own compositions. His aim was and is to build a new and original way to teach, to set a modern pedagogical base to the panflute.