President Klaus Iohannis on Monday decorated, during a ceremony that took place at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace, Professor Architect Emil Barbu Popescu, PhD, Master Ion Marin and TV producer Elise Stan, in which context he said that artists and their works offer the Romanian people the opportunity of presenting itself…
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On the occasion of the anniversary Romania’s Centenary, the Radio Academic Choir invites the interested public, on Thursday, October 25 (at 7.00 PM), to the Radio Hall, to an extraordinary concert entitled “Cantecele Unirii” (“Songs of the Union” – e.n.). The event is symbolically scheduled on the date on which the Romanian Army Day is celebrated every year. Under the musical direction of conductor CIPRIAN TUTU, the Radio Academic Choir suggests an exciting program for you, which brings together religious creations, as well as songs of folkloric inspiration, famous patriotic songs, works evoking key personalities or moments from Romania’s history. Some of the songs you will listen are: fragments from the operetta “Crai Nou” and “E scris pe tricolor UNIRE” by Ciprian Porumbescu, “Trompetele rasuna” by Gavriil Musicescu, “Treceti batalioane romane Carpatii”, “Ce-ti doresc eu tie, dulce Romanie!” by Constantin Constantinescu, “Hora Unirii” by Alexandru Flechtenmacher and others. Arrangements are signed by Ioan Dobrinescu. Soloists Olga Murariu Caia, Grazziela Frangulea, Cristian Paraschiv, Aurel Frangulea, Cristian Ruja and Ciprian Cucu will participate in the event dedicated to the Centenary of the Great Union, being accompanied by pianist Carmen Sandulescu. The concert will be presented by actress Claudia Motea. “On October 25, the Academic Choir suggests to the public and radio listeners a travel in time, in the history of the Romanian people, through choral music. Being entitled ‘Songs of the Union’, our concert has a double significance: the celebration of 100 years since Greater Romania was founded, as well as the celebration of the Romanian Army Day. The event brings to the audience’s attention old patriotic and revolutionary Romanian songs, choral arrangements of folkloric inspiration, as well as religious creations performed for the first time, symbolically promoting the theme of the union through the choral singing”, stated Ciprian Tutu, the conductor of the Radio Academic Choir. Ciprian Tutu, who is the conductor of the Radio Academic Choir since 2016, has proposed a diversification and modernization of the ensemble’s repertoire. Born in Brasov, he graduated the classes of the Faculty of Music in his hometown (the specialization Musical Pedagogy – conducting an academic choir and master in Conducting Stylistics). In 2013, he presented his PhD. thesis at the National University of Music of Bucharest, and in 2015 he graduated the postdoctoral classes at the Transilvania University of Brasov, whose research theme was Human Voice and Its Implications in the Contemporary Choral Performance. The concert will be recorded and broadcasted on Friday, November 2, on all the Radio Romania Cultural and Radio Romania Muzical frequencies from the country, and also in live streaming on the Internet, at www.radioromaniacultural.ro and www.romania-muzical.ro. Tickets for the concerts held by the Radio Orchestras and Choirs are available at www.bilete.ro, at the Posta Romana offices, in the Inmedio stores bearing the logo bilete.ro and at the Ticket Office of the Radio Hall.
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The SoNoRo Festival, which has reached its 13th edition, suggests a Side Effects edition for this year! SoNoRo will take place from November 2 to 20, 2018, in Bucharest, Timisoara, Cluj-Napoca, Brasov and Sibiu. Under the name of Side Effects, the festival will provide the audience with an eclectic mixture of artistic performances: chamber music concerts in the most beautiful concert halls of the country – Cotroceni Palace, Romanian Athenaeum, the Philharmonics of Timisoara, Brasov and Sibiu -, as well as in unconventional places – the Halucinarium Art Gallery and the attic of the Carul cu Bere restaurant from Bucharest, or of the Casa Boema from Cluj-Napoca, a movie screening in the atrium of the French Institute and a South-American evening at the Bragadiru Palace. Tickets and subscriptions were put on sale and can be purchased until October 19 at a discounted price, on the Eventim website (www.eventim.ro), in the Humanitas and Carturesti bookstores, as well as in the Germanos, Orange, Vodafone and Domo stores. Vertigo, Lunatique, Hangover, Something Borrowed – Something Blue, Crimes of Passions or Del Amor y Otros Demonios are just a few of the titles of the concerts to be held at this edition, each of them proposing a spectacular program, performed by some of the most appreciated artists of the world. For the first time at SoNoRo Festival, the Romanian audience will have the opportunity to meet violinists Pavel Vernikov, Svetlana Makarova, Anna-Liisa Bezrodny and Jonian Kadesha, violinist Meghan Cassidy, cellists Kyrill Zlotnikov and Jan-Erik Gustaffson or pianist Marianna Schirinyan. The Festival will end in Bucharest, with a special evening, at the French Institute, where the guest will be Director Bruno Monsaingeon, who will present his most recent movie for the first time – film – Mstislav Rostropovich – L’archet indomptable / The untamed fiddlestick. SoNoRo Festival, which is presented by Raiffeisen Bank, will continue in the rest of the country, this time in four cities, another premiere of this edition. The festival will come back in Cluj-Napoca with four concerts that will reveal the various and captivating “side effects of SoNoRo to the audience: NewYork Counterpoint at Casa Boema, Capricio Sextet at the Reformed Church, or Grande Sestetto Concertante by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the Aula of the Babes-Bolyai University. In Timisoara, Brasov and Sibiu, the SoNoRo Festival will bring for the first time the project entitled Rhapsodie Roumaine, launched in January 2018 at the Musikverein Hall of Vienna, which had a fulminating development throughout the year, including performances of the most important concert halls in Europe. Under the tour, the CD “Rhapsodie Roumaine”, made to celebrate the Centenary of the Great Union, was also launched in Romania. The CD includes the most known compositions by George Enescu and Béla Bartók, inspired by the Romanian folklore. You can find more details here. In October, the tour will continue in Japan and will end in December with a concert in the renowned Concertgebow Hall of Amsterdam. You can find more details at www.sonoro.ro Established in 2006, the SoNoRo Festival brought the chamber music in the forefront of the Romanian cultural life and included the Romanian musical stage into a network of high-class European festivals. In addition to the regular partnerships with festivals from Italy, Latvia, Germany, England, Austria, Israel and Japan, SoNoRo has performed concerts in some of the most renowned halls of the world, such as Wigmore Hall in London, Konzerthaus in Vienna, YMCA in Jerusalem, and Carnegie Hall in New York. The SoNoRo cultural platform includes the SoNoRo Festival (13 years), SoNoRo-Interferente, the scholarship and workshop program for young musicians (12 years), SoNoRo On Tour (11 years), SoNoRo Arezzo (8 years), SoNoRo Conac, the series of season concerts hosted by heritage buildings in Romania (6 years). SoNoRo is a member of the European Festivals Association.
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