Adrian Mocanu (also spelled Mokanu) is a composer born in 1989 in Kyiv. He studied music composition at the National Music Academy of Ukraine and completed his postgraduate studies at Centro Superior de Enseñanza Musical Katarina Gurska in Madrid. He received the Gaude Polonia scholarship of the Ministry of Culture of Poland and took classes at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw in 2019. In 2022 he was granted a scholarship from the Academy of Fine Arts of Paris for an art residency at Casa de Velázquez in Madrid. During 2021/22, he was one of the fellow composers in the ‘Postcolonial Recherche’ project with Ensemble Recherche.

Festivals where Mocanu’s music was played include the Warsaw Autumn, musikprotokoll (Graz), Rossi Fest (Belgrade), Dias de Música Electroacústica (Lisbon), VANG. Músicas en vanguardia (Madrid), Festival Mixtur (Barcelona), and Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival (New York). His works were performed in Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Brazil, and the USA.

metamorphoses: nychterídes for large ensemble (2019)

performed by European Workshop for Contemporary Music

27 September 2019, Warsaw Autumn festival

soundcloud.com/raidanmancou/metamorphoses-nychterides-2019-for-large-ensemble 

waren wir, sind wir, werden for mezzo-soprano, cello and piano (2020) 

performed by Ana Radovanović, Jasmina Vrbanić, Vanja Šćepanović

27 January 2021, Rossi Fest, Belgrade

soundcloud.com/raidanmancou/waren-wir-sind-wir-werden-2020-for-mezzo-soprano-cello-and-piano 

este amoroso tormento for soprano and bass flute (2018)

performed by Anima Vox Duo 

2019, Latino Voices Project, CD release

soundcloud.com/raidanmancou/este-amoroso-tormento-2018-for-soprano-and-bass-flute-studio-recording 

lamento de metal, rumor de alambre, voz de junco, también latido, vena for bass flute, tenor saxophone and piano (2019)

performed by Barcelona Modern Ensemble

20 May 2019, Sampler Series at L'Auditori de Barcelona

soundcloud.com/raidanmancou/lamento-de-metal-rumor-de-alambre-voz-de-junco-tambien-latido-vena-2019-bfl-tsax-pno 

ecos en una cuerda for piano (2018)

performed by Ricardo Descalzo

24 April 2018, Festival Mixtur, Centre d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona

soundcloud.com/raidanmancou/ecos-en-una-cuerda-2018-for-piano 

sólo queda el desierto for large orchestra (2016)

performed by Armonia Ludus Orchestra

September 2016, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv

soundcloud.com/raidanmancou/solo-queda-el-desierto-2016-for-large-orchestra-1