Adina Spire

Adina Spire is a classical composer of sacred music for Catholic and Orthodox liturgies. She was born in Arad, Romania, on December 25th, 1977. At the age of four she began to study cello and later composition, first in Arad then in Switzerland and Berlin. She now works almost exclusively in her native Romania as a sacred music composer, director of choir, director of orchestra, chapel master in a Monastery near Arad and teacher of film composition at the Arad conservatory. Her compositional works are strongly influenced by the symbolism of traditional and contemporary Eastern European religious music incorporating elements of gypsy folk traditions and atonal compositions. Adina Spires’ music is a tapestry of complex, interrelated themes. Grief, nostalgia, fear, solitude, hope, brutality, innocence, protest, sensuality and longing, all find expression in layers of overlapping sonic colors, with a strong connection to the roots of the traditional Romanian culture, with its shadow and mystery, under the bleak, searing light of her country’s recent struggle against its totalitarian government.