Michael Radulescu

Austrian composer and organist, born 1943 in Bucharest as the son of a Romanian father and a German mother. After receiving his first musical education from his parents and after his first attempts at composition, he commences his organ studies with Victor Bickerich in 1956 and begins studying composition with Mihail Jora, a prominent pupil of Max Reger, in 1957. After attending the Salzburg summer academy “Mozarteum” in 1964 and 1965 (organ with Anton Nowakowski, harpsichord with Anna Barbara Speckner, and conducting with Carl Melles), he continues his studies at the Vienna Academy (today University) of Music and Performing Arts in the organ class of Anton Heiller and in the conducting class of Hans Swarovsky and Karl Österreicher.