Șerban Nichifor has written "Variation on «Raduitesya Vsi Lyude»" for us.
Șerban Nichifor was born in Bucharest.
He studied at the Bucharest National University of Music from 1973 to 1977 and took composition courses in 1978, 1980 and 1984 in Darmstadt, Germany.
In 1994, he received a Ph. D. in Musicology from National University of Music. From 1990 to 1994, he also studied at the Theology Faculty of the Bucharest University.
In 2015, he was awarded a Ph. D. summa cum laude in Conducting, and wrote the thesis SHOAH - The Holocaust Reflected in My Musical Creation.
He has composed many works dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust.
Nichifor's eclectic style is based on neoromanticism, but has included elements of jazz (in his Third and Fourth Symphonies) and the use of tape recordings (as in his opera "Domnişoara Cristina"). In the 1990s, he developed a simplified style employing themes reminiscent of Byzantine chant.
Nichifor is a professor at National University of Music. He married the Romanian musician and composer Liana Alexandra in 1978. They performed together - Șerban Nichifor as cellist and Liana Alexandra as pianist - as the Duo Intermedia from 1990 and were co-directors of the Nuova Musica Consonante - Living Music Foundation Festival (U.S.A.).
Among Nichifor's prizes and honors are the 1977 Gaudeamus International Composers Award and the Belgian Order of the Crown (conferred in 2008).