Cristian Lolea graduated in 2000 from the National University of Music Bucharest where he studied composition with Tiberiu Olah. He completed his PhD in 2010 at the same University where he is also a lecturer. Since 2011 he lives for most of the time in Warsaw, Poland.
Cristian Lolea won the Gopo Award in 2008 for Best Original Film Score (for the movie An Angel Hooked on Me). He was also awarded the 1st prize in numerous national and international competitions for contemporary music, including the The Roads of Romanticism in Warsaw (2007), Excellency Award for Young Composers from UNPR, the Romanian National Employers’ Union (2006) and the Special Prize at the George Enescu International Composition Competition (2009).
Cristian Lolea composes soundtracks for movies, television and commercials, as well as chamber music, symphonic and vocal-symphonic music. His works have been performed in Europe, the United States and Brazil, in important festivals such as Warsaw Autumn or George Enescu Festival and broadcast in Europe, Africa and the Americas.
