Ion Bogdan Ștefănescu (Romania)

ION BOGDAN ȘTEFĂNESCU is the soloist of the ”George Enescu” Bucharest Philharmonic and Professor of Flute at Bucharest National University of Music and Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA). Since 2012, Ion Bogdan Ștefănescu is a full member of Romanian Writers Union. Over time he published the following volumes: On the way back to Itaka, National Foundation for Science and Art, 2022; Encounters in Musical Code, Music Publishing House, 2022; The Mirror with Two Reflections, Military Publishing House, 2021; Sewn-Up Smile, National Foundation for Science and Art, 2020; Signs – Touches, Tracus Arte Publishing House, 2018; A verse that leaves death speechless, Tracus Arte Publishing House, 2016; Soulful Shout, Tracus Arte Publishing House, 2014; Six scripts looking for a director, Tracus Arte Publishing House, 2013; HIM, Tracus Arte Publishing House, 2013; Blood Voices, Tracus Arte Publishing House, 2012; The Passing Word, Tracus Arte Publishing House, 2011; The cage without bars, Opera Magna Publishing House, 2010; Of Stones and Birds, Axa Publishing House, 2006; The Ages of Flute, Libra Publishing House, 2005; Game of Mirrors, Libra Publishing House, 2004.

As a writer he was rewarded with the following awards: Special Award APLER for The Passing Word (2012) and The Poetry Book of the Year 2016, awarded by the Bucharest Poetry Branch of Romanian Union Writers (2017), for A verse that leaves death speechless.