Hogeschool voor Wetenschap & Kunst in Leuven (Belgium) and holds a master-degree in Musicology (Sorbonne University, Paris).
Mariana Ungureanu participated in several master classes and have taken individual lessons with Hugues Dufourt, Beat Furrer, Pierluigi Billone, Georg Friedrich Haas, Rebecca Saunders, Klaus Lang, Mark André, Chaya Czernowin, Peter Eotvos, Michael Jarrell, Marco Stroppa and Georges Aperghis. She was awarded artistic residences by the Festival du Carré in Belgium, Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, DRAC Alsace and Herrenhaus Edenkoben-Villa Musica in Germany. She also followed the IRCAM workshops during Acanthes Academy in Metz.
Her music was performed by European ensembles and orchestras such Ensemble Aleph, S:I:C, Divertimento, Interface, International Academy of Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Experimental Freiburg, Orchestre de Chambre de Wallonie and Orchestre National de Lorraine; and also performed in festivals such as: Clé de Soleil (Lille, France), Hamburger Klangwerktage (Hamburg, Germany), Atlas Festival (Netherlands), Bergamo Musica Festival (Bergamo, Italy) and Impuls Festival (Graz, Austria), among others.
Mariana Ungureanu was awarded grants from the French Ministry of Research and from Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, (Belgium). She is a laureate of the European programme “Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes” and received the Composition Prize Georges Enescu for chamber music in 2005.
Her music catalog is based mainly on chamber acoustic music, and also contains two concertos, a symphonietta piece “Le Pas de l’Enfer“, a large orchestra piece “Anagrammes“, the “Maestro and Margaret Ballet Suite“. Recent compositions include: two musical theater pieces, works for solo instruments with electronics, “Auctor“, electroacoustic music (for the choreographic show of Marie-Laure Agrapart & Cie.), a chamber opera based on The Portrait of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde’s novel), and Out of S.E.A. chamber opera (in collaboration with two composers), based on the homonimous novel of Sławomir Mrożek.
The musical aesthetics of Mariana Ungureanu draws on various topics related mostly to nature and mythology. Her recent compositions are influenced by the Arte Povera artist Giuseppe Penone, as well as by processes of the physics of electricity.
She currently is teaching Musical theory, Composition and Analysis at Frederic Chopin and Jean-Philippe Rameau Conservatories in Paris, France.