Albums · Screen & Stage · Earlier works
Works
A selection from more than four decades of composition: cinematic electronic albums, earlier synthesiser works, and music for film, animation and theatre.
Albums
2026 · Woburn Records · ELEF-01LP
The Kingdom
A cinematic, largely instrumental work reflecting on Britain as a civilisation shaped by continuity, myth and engineered modernity. Mastered by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road Studios.
2020 · SOUND EXPERT · CD
Quantum Gates
A cinematic electronic album in twelve parts, each conceived as a gate into a parallel world, with vocals by Aryna. Melodic lines built on symphonic counterpoint run through a sound world that joins classical, rock and electronic music, continuing the science-fiction thread that began with Stefan Elefteriu’s score for The Son of the Stars.
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2013 · SOUND EXPERT · CD
Outer Space - Beyond Time
An electronic concept album in the space-opera tradition, with vocals by Aryna. A lost capsule drifts through deep space, its single passenger slipping between sequences of time, able to see the beginning and the end of any world almost at once. She is trying to understand a universe in constant evolution, but ‘infinity is instant fast’, and she is only a robot.
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Screen & Stage
Music for film, animation, television and theatre
Since the 1980s Elefteriu has scored animation, feature films, documentaries, television and theatre, first for the AnimaFilm studios in Bucharest and, from 1994, at Sound Expert Studio, which he founded. His film scores have twice won the Romanian Filmmakers' Union award (UCIN - the Romanian Oscars) for best original music.
Gumelnița · documentary feature, 2008
La Urgență (ER) · TV series, 2006
Extraneus · short drama, 2021
Hamlet · theatre score, 2016
The Son of the Stars · animation feature, 1987
Awards
Best Original Film Score
Damen Tango, dir. Dinu Tănase · Romanian Filmmakers' Union, 2004
Honorary Lifetime Award for services to Romanian animation
National Film Centre and AnimaFilm Studios, Bucharest, 2007
Best Original Documentary Score
Iulian Mihu, as He Was, dir. Laurențiu Damian · Romanian Filmmakers' Union, 2009
Selected credits
- YearTitleDirector / productionType
- 1987The Son of the Stars (Fiul Stelelor)4K restoration, Deaf Crocodile, 2023Călin Cazan, Mircea ToiaAnimated feature
- 1988A Little Alien DancingManuela HodorAnimation
- 1994Harvey by Mary ChaseBucharest National TheatreTudor MărăscuTheatre
- 2002–03In the Family200 episodesPrima TV, Fremantle MediaTelevision drama
- 2003State of the NationIon CărmăzanFeature film
- 2004Damen TangoBest Original Film Score, Romanian Filmmakers' UnionDinu TănaseFeature film
- 2005–Zanies (Trăsniții)Guinness World Records: longest-running TV sitcom, 2015Prima TVTelevision
- 2006Light of KnowledgeAlso co-directorStefan Elefteriu, Bruce GarrisonDocumentary
- 2009FaustLaurențiu DamianDocumentary
- 2009Iulian Mihu, as He WasBest Original Documentary Score, Romanian Filmmakers' UnionLaurențiu DamianDocumentary
Earlier Works
Recorded in Bucharest from the mid-1980s, these pieces trace the synthesiser-led sound that Elefteriu developed in Communist-era Romania, where professional electronic instruments were almost impossible to obtain. He built his own, among them a synthesiser reverse-engineered from a friend's Korg MS-10, and an electric violin inspired by Jean-Luc Ponty. The selection runs from electronic settings of Romanian folk melodies to scores for animation, closing with the 2001 album Missing Lands.
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Commissions and licensing
Stefan Elefteriu writes new scores for film, television, documentary and theatre. For commissions, and for sync and licensing of existing recordings, contact Woburn Productions in London. One-stop licensing is available for The Kingdom.