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Bucharest events: New Year's Concert and launch of SoNoRo Strings Orchestra

December 4, 2024

The SoNoRo Strings Orchestra, made up of holders of the SoNoRo Interferenţe scholarship, is set to launch this month at a New Year's Concert scheduled for December 28 at the Romanian Athenaeum.

Violinist Valentin Şerban will lead the orchestra as concertmaster and will bring together several former SoNoRo Interferenţe scholars such as violinists Francesco Ionaşcu, Mateus Mai Antal and Andrei Mihail Radu, violists Alexandru Spînu, Ştefana Munteanu, Maria Colţatu and Cătălina Filipescu,...

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