George Dumitriu

George Dumitriu: Monk on Viola

by Karl Ackermann
April 3, 2023

In an NPR interview, avant-garde composer Volker Bertelmann--who wrote the soundtrack All Quiet on the Western Front (Netflix, 2022)--talked about re-imagining music, saying: “You don't have to paint the river to express something about the river." That attitude applies to George Dumitriu's Monk on Viola, an unusually inventive reading of Thelonious Monk's work. The Romanian multi-instrumentalist and composer holds several international prizes and he has worked with Benny Golson, Ambrose Akinmusire, Michael Moore, the National Opera & Ballet Amsterdam, and ...