Ioan Mihai Cochinescu (Romanian pronunciation:[iˈo̯anmiˈhajkokiˈnesku]; born April 16, 1951) is a Romanian novelist and essayist.[1] He is also a film script author and director, an art photographer, teacher, musicologist and composer.
1970-1974 he studied music (violin, piano and composition) at The National University for Music in Bucharest. He was granted the Doctor of Music, (Aesthetics) from this university in 2005. His dissertation was on The Venetian baroque music of Antonio Vivaldi.
He has been published in the magazines "Argeș" (1968), "SLAST" (1986), and "Tribuna" (1987). A volume of short stories (1986 Publishing House "Cartea Romaneasca") the censors removed its narrations.
He participated as an Art photographer from 1982–1986 in a number of international competitions in Romania, France, Brazil and Poland, where he won several awards. His essays, articles and translations have been published in the magazine "Fotografia". He is the creator of The Photoplan - and Photospacial Forms, shown in the galleries for photo art AAF (1983 Bucharest), Sala Dalles (1983 Bucharest) and 1986 in Poland. The first national salon for photographic essays, ESEF in Ploieşti was presented by him in 1986.