Grigore Leșe (born in 1954) is a

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n musician.

Biography

Leşe was born in 1954 in Stoiceni village,

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in northern

. He graduated from the Music College in

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, followed by the Music Academy in

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. In 2003 he received a Ph.D. in music, with the thesis ''Horea în grumaz. Considerații teoretice și practice ale interpretării genului dintr-o perspectivă stilistică''. From 2005 he was an associated teacher of ethnomusicology at the

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. One year later, in 2006, he started doing shows for the public national radio and the public national television, for which he was awarded with national and international prizes in journalism. In 2007 he received the great prize of the Romanian Association of Television Professionals (APTR), in 2009 the prize for cultural journalism awarded by

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, and in 2009 he was nominated at the International

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Film and Television Festival. Leșe is the first Romanian musician that brought with him on the stage traditional artists from other cultures and countries such as

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, Syria, and

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, with the purpose of demonstrating the relationship between old music in Romania and the East. His music was selected for several feature films and documentaries from Romania and other countries, such as ''The Pharaoh'', ''Gunpowder'', ''Treason and Plot'' (a BBC production), and ''Wild Carpathia'' (a

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production). He was invited to perform worldwide at festivals in Washington, D.C., Bloomington, Paris, Berlin, Athens, Montreal, Basel, Morelia, Frankfurt, and London.

Discography

Leșe has recorded seven albums: * 1996, ''Cântec pastoral'', Amori Label, Lausanne * 2000–2003, ''Cântece de cătănie și hori'', Concert Society, Bistrița * 2005, ''Horile vieții'' and ''Așteptând Crăciunul'', Roton * 2009, ''Grigore Leșe: Le chant de Lăpuș'', OCORA Radio France, Paris * 2011, ''Grigore Leșe și aromânii fârșeroți din Cogealac'', A&A Records * 2011, ''De dragoste, de război, de moarte, de unul singur'', Humanitas MultimediaGrigore Leșe, ,,Acum știu cine sunt”, Humanitas, 2013

References

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