ADRIAN MOCANU is a composer born in 1989 in Kyiv. He studied music composition at the National Music Academy of Ukraine and carried out his postgraduate studies at Centro Superior de Enseñanza Musical Katarina Gurska in Madrid, Spain. He was granted various scholarships, such as the Gaude Polonia scholarship of the Ministry of Culture of Poland (2019), Postcolonial Recherche residency with Ensemble Recherche (2021/22), artistic residency at Casa de Velázquez - the Academy of France in Madrid (2022), residency at The Green Room for Performing Artists in Cologne (2023), and the Odyssée program from the Association of Cultural Meeting Centres/ACCR and the Ministry of Culture of France (2024).He was the composer-in-residence of the Musical Youths of Spain in the 2023/24 season, and in 2024 was awarded the Weltoffenes Berlin Fellowship of the Senate of Berlin as the composer-in-residence of the vocal ensemble Maulwerker.

Among the awards he received are the 38th Frederic Mompou International Award in Barcelona (2017), the second prize of IV International Composition Competition GMCL/Jorge Peixinho in Lisbon (2019) and the first prize of Borys Lyatoshynsky Composer Competition in Kharkiv (2021). In 2022, he won the second prize of 5th Mauricio Kagel Composition Competition in Vienna and obtained the second award of the XXXIII Young Composers Prize by the SGAE Foundation in Madrid. In 2024, he became the laureate of "George Stephănescu" International Composition Competition in Bucharest, and was awarded a commission from DEBUT Classical Singing Competition in Germany to create a mandatory vocal composition for this contest.

He collaborated with and wrote works for such ensembles as Ensemble Musikfabrik, Maulwerker, Ensemble Recherche, IEMA-Ensemble, Ensemble Mosaik, Barcelona Modern Ensemble, Bilbao Sinfonietta, Continuum XXI and Anima Vox Duo. His works were premiered in numerous countries such as Ukraine, Romania, Poland, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Serbia, Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Brazil and the USA.