Ioana Mandrescu is a musician and a sound artist based in Brussels. Her interest in contemporary music was stirred during the time spent at
École Normale de Musique’Alfred Cortot’ in Paris. This led to the foundation of two contemporary music groups, Quivir Ensemble, based in Spain and Switzerland and Opia Ensemble, based in Belgium.

Strongly influenced by choreography and painting, in the past years she developed, together with her groups, performances that brought together sound, film and dance. Her main interests are the human voice and human produced sounds and their impact on the way we perceive the world. She is currently working on a database of human voices and on several sound collage pieces that mark distinct moments in human history.