Octavian Nemescu has been played on NTS shows including Merzbow, with Trisson first played on 20 August 2024.

Octavian Nemescu (b. March 29, 1940, Paşcani, Romania). Esteemed Romanian composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, electroacoustic, multimedia, metamusic, and imaginary works that have been heard throughout Europe and elsewhere.

Prof. Nemescu studied composition with Mihail Jora, harmony with Paul Constantinescu and orchestration with Alexandru Pascanu and Anatol Vieru at the National University of Music in Bucharest from 1956-63. Much later, he earned his DMus in musicology at the G. Dima Conservatory in Cluj-Napoca in 1978.

His honors include the Aaron Copland Prize (USA, 1970), six prizes from the Romanian…