LA music is a joint venture between Lidia Kalendareva & Alin Cristian Oprea.
Lidia Kalendareva & Alin Cristian Oprea founded LA Music in 2005. They perform and create international award winning custom made music for a variety of diffrent purposes: reaching from music and arrangements for media, movies, games, commercials, to ballet shows and concert music. Lidia and Alin received the prestigious Special Mention Award during the “Golden Eye” International Zurich Film Composer Competition, an honor made even more remarkable by Hans Zimmer’s involvement.
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Lidia Kalendareva is a multi-award winning composer, pianist & saxophonist based in Berlin/Germany.
At the age of 6, Lidia joined the theater “Around The Piano” and was able to write her first compositions for short plays.
Ten years later, Lidia founded her own ensemble “The White Night” as a singer/composer and performed her music in several Tv and Radio shows.
Lidia studied classical piano, composition & music theory in Rocktock & Berlin.
She won several international piano and composing competitions in Prague, Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Zurich, New Jersey und Los Angeles.
Lidia Kalendareva is currently teaching music theory and film music at the Berlin University of the Arts (UDK) and Bremen University of the Arts (HFK).
An in depth version of Lidia Kalendareva curriculum vitae can also be found on the German Wikipedia.
Alin Cristian Oprea is a multi-award winning composer and graduate sound engineer, sound designer & pianist based in Berlin/Germany.
His compositions were performed by different orchestras and ensembles (German Film Orchestra Babelsberg – (Bernd Wefelmeyer), Tonhalle Zurich Orchestra (Frank Strobel), Georgian Sinfonietta (Strings Ensemble), Some Handsome Hands (Piano Trio).
Alin is also directing and writing music for different Music and Ballet Videos together with Choreographer Anna Svitlychenko. „Elegie – Nostalgia“ „Sonata-Nostalgia“ „Modern Time Fugue“ are three examples of this creative collaboration.
He won several composing competitions in Berlin, Zurich, New Jersey und Los Angeles.
Alin Cristian Oprea also teaches at the Berlin University of the Arts with a focus on music theory and film music composition and works as a composer, producer, arranger and mixing engineer on various music and film music productions.
An in depth version of Alin Cristian Opreas curriculum vitae can also be found on the German Wikipedia.
Lidia Kalendareva & Alin Cristian Oprea are currently living in Berlin/Germany and continue to write concert, ballet & film music. Both composers have won several prizes together:
2015: 1st Prize for the best orchestral Soundtrack for their soundtrack to the Movie “Stones form the Desert” at the Garden State Film Festival in New Jersey, USA.
2014 Nomination for the “Best International Film music” and “Special Mention” Award at the international film music competition (231 participants from 40 countries) during the film festival in Zurich. The composition was performed by the Tonhalle Orchester Zurich (Frank Strobel)
2007: 2nd Prize at the “East West” international competition in Hollywood/Los Angeles for setting the filmet “Digital Loneliness” ( 170 participants )
Each composer also won the following prizes for their music individually:
2009: 1st Prize and best Newcomer Composer at the Franz Grothe Film Music Competition in Munich.
2013: 1st Prize at the international Rachmaninov composer competition in Frankfurt am Main for the piano compositions “Sonata Nostalgia”, “Elegie Nostalgia” and “Prelude Nostalgia”.
2000: 1st Prize price at the song-competition in Sankt-Petersburg “Young Composers in Sankt-Petersburg“.
2004: 3rd Prize at the international Piano Competition in Vienna “Art and Education in the 21-Century“.
2004: 3rd Prize at the 4th international Piano & Composer Competition “Anton Rubinstein” in Saint Petersburg. Performance of her own piano composition “Herbstsonate” together with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
2005: 1st Prize at the international competition for composers “ISAM” in Michelstadt for the piece with piano & clarinet “Between Heaven and earth” in Los Angeles und Tel Aviv
2008: 1st Prize with Actress Nina Schwartz at the Melodram Competition in Prague for the music composed and inspired by the diary of Salvador Dali and literary work of Heiner Mueller.
2009: 1st Prize and composition scholarship of the “Kuenstlerhaus Lukas” and piano concerts in Schweden.
2016: German Film Award for Best Short Movie (Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis) “Und ich so: Äh” (Director: Steffen Heidenreich, Composer: Alin Cristian Oprea). The reasoning of the jury explicitly mentioned the role of the „irresistible film music“.
2014: 1st Prize as “Young Talent Composer for Games Music“ at the international composer competition in Hamburg / Germany 2014.
2010: 2nd Prize for the a capella Jazz Choir composition “Das Karussell” (Lyrics, Poems by Rainer Maria von Rilke) at the Fabulous Fridays Competition for Composers in Berlin.
2015: 3rd Prize (Top 3 Composer) at the international Film Music Competition „Oticons Faculty“
All Compositions posted on this website have been composed by Lidia Kalendareva & Alin Cristian Oprea and are protected under the German Copyright Law. Your are not allowed to use, sell, copy nor reproduce any musical or visual aspect from this Website without the permission of the original Author and the GEMA.