Șerban Nichifor

Șerban Nichifor OCB (born 25 August 1954) is a Romanian composer, cellist and music educator.

[3] In 2015, he was awarded a PhD summa cum laude in conducting, and wrote a thesis SHOAH – The Holocaust Reflected in My Musical Creation.

[5][6][7] According to musicologist Octavian Cosma, Nichifor's eclectic style is based on neoromanticism but has included elements of jazz (in his Third and Fourth Symphonies) and the use of tape recordings as in his opera Domnişoara Cristina.

They performed together as cellist and pianist in the Duo Intermedia from 1990 and were co-directors of the Nuova Musica Consonante – Living Music Foundation Festival.

[8][9] Among Nichifor's prizes and honors are the 1977 Gaudeamus International Composers Award and the Belgian Order of the Crown (conferred in 2008).

Belgian Ambassador Philippe Roland presenting Șerban Nichifor with the Order of the Crown in 2008
Nichifor and his mother, Dr. Livia Nichifor, to whom he dedicated much of his musical output
Nichifor and his wife Liana Alexandra . The couple performed together as Duo Intermedia.