Carmen Petra-Basacopol

Carmen Petra Basacopol (5 September 1926 – 15 October 2023) was a Romanian composer, pianist, musicologist and academic teacher. She taught at the National University of Music Bucharest, between 1962 and 2003, and at the Rabat Conservatoire in Morocco in the 1970s. As a musicologist, she achieved a PhD from the Sorbonne University in Paris in 1976, with a dissertation about three Romanian composers who had influenced her, George Enescu, Mihail Jora and Paul Constantinescu, composers representing essential features of Romanian music.

She composed music of many genres, with a focus on chamber music, including compositions with the harp; her works have been performed internationally. Her music has been described as stylistically diversified, "defined by the freshness of inspiration, the elegance of construction and the ability to communicate directly with the listener through the simplicity of melodic and harmonic expression".

Works Petra Basacopol composed for orchestra, opera, chamber ensemble, harp, piano, voice, and ballet performance, Her Concertino for Harp, String Orchestra and Timpani together with the Harp Concerto by Paul Constantinescu, played by soloist Elena Ganţolea and the Romanian Radio Orchestra conducted by , ST-ECE 1862.