Radu Paladi

Radu Paladi (16 January 1927- 30 May 2013) was a Romanian composer, pianist, and conductor. His compositions include stage and film music, choral works, vocal music and vocal-symphonic works, chamber music, symphonic music as well as concertos.
Education.
Radu Paladi studied piano with Titus Tarnavski at the Cernăuți Conservatory (at that time in Romania, now in Chernivtsi, Ukraine) from 1941 until 1943. Between 1947 and 1956 he studied piano with Florica Musicescu, composition with Leon Klepper, harmony with Paul Constantinescu and instrumentation (orchestration) with Theodor Rogalski at the Royal Academy of Theatre and Music, later known as the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory in Bucharest.
Teaching.
Paladi started his teaching career from 1954 until 1963 as an assistant and continued from 1963 until 1996 as a lecturer at the Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest.
Artistic career.
Paladi was a member of the Association of Romanian Composers and Musicologists since its foundation in 1949. He performed as a pianist in song recitals and chamber music in Romania, Spain, and Germany. As a soloist in his own piano concerto, Paladi played with various Romanian orchestras, e.g., the Iași Philharmonic Orchestra on the occasion of the first performance of this work, with the Botoșani Philharmonic Orchestra, and with the Bucharest National Radio orchestra with whom he recorded his piano concerto. From 1969 to 1972, Paladi worked as a conductor and artistic director of the Philharmonic Orchestra in Botoșani. Apart from being busy conducting numerous Romanian amateur choirs and vocal ensembles, he was a frequent judge at various national contests of vocal and instrumental music as well as composition contests.
References.
Cosma, Viorel: Muzicieni români, Lexicon, Ed. Muzicală, 1970