Dr. Marinescu's compositions have received recognition in the major festivals of new music throughout Europe and the U.S. and have been performed by prominent orchestras and ensembles, including the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Orchestra 2001, 20th-Century Consort of the Smithsonian Institute, Contemporary Music Forum at the Corcoran Gallery, as well as the Czech Bohuslav Martinu Symphony, and the Bucharest National Radio Symphony and the Music Academy Orchestra in Romania.
His music has been praised in many leading American newspapers, including The Philadelphia Inquirer, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, while the critics of The Strad, Strings Magazine, and New York Concert Review recognized its "real expressive power and attractive rhetoric," "majestic assertiveness," and "startling moments." His international career developed as early as his sophomore year in college, when the Parisian newspaper Le Monde de la Musique described one of the concerts he organized in Bucharest, as being "inventive in its evolution, content, and substance," and promoting an "anti-conformist view." While he was still a student, the Bucharest Music News acknowledged that Liviu Marinescu "not only has the intelligence and maturity expected from a modern artist, but also the ability to express himself through sounds in a convincing way."
A graduate of University of Maryland (DMA in composition), Cleveland State University (MM), and the Bucharest Music Academy (BM), he has studied with distinguished composers in Europe and the United States, including Lawrence Moss, Edwin London, and Adrian Iorgulescu. Dr. Marinescu has brought to CSUN's music program more than ten years of college teaching experience developed in a variety of settings, from the small liberal arts milieu of Concordia College, MN, to the extensive state university programs of West Chester, PA, College Park, MD, and Cleveland, OH.