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One of many such enlightened national institutes operating in the smarter districts of London, the RCI opened its annual season of concerts with a recital where the celebrity on show was the instrument rather than the musicians: the ‘del Gesù’ violin (c.1725) which belonged to George Enescu for half a century. Enescu traded in a […]

The national Duel of Violins tour returned in 2023 for its eleventh edition with a series of recitals that took place in Bucharest (2 December), Brașov (3 December), Ploiești (4 December), Timișoara (5 December), and Craiova (6 December), with a preview in The Hague on 27 November. On stage were Liviu Prunaru, the concertmaster of […]

Father and daughter violinists Gabriel and Simina Croitoru returned in November 2023 for their second time together on the Enesco’s Violin national tour of Romania’s towns and villages. The two violins, kept in the Georges Enesco Museum, instruments touched by the magic of Georges Enesco, who was one of the twentieth century’s greatest violinists, could […]

From 3 to 8 November 2023, soprano Teodora Gheorghiu and pianist Diana Ionescu gave a national tour, performing lieder by father of the lied Franz Schubert in four towns around the country. The tour made its début in Sibiu at the Thalia Concert Hall before continuing at the Salle Enesco-Bartók of the Oradea Philharmonic, the […]

The Organs of Romania national tour returned in October 2023 with two special concerts performed by organist Eduard Antal in two major organ halls in Romania and the Republic of Moldova: Bucharest’s Radio Concert Hall on 22 October and Chișinău’s Organ Hall on 26 October. With its 7,600 pipes, 86 stops, and four keyboards, the […]

In 2023, the tour featured ten concerts in Romania and one in Spain. This fifth edition of the tour was given by cellist Marin Cazacu and the Violoncellissimo chamber ensemble, whose twelve members are some of Romania’s best cellists, who have appeared in concert halls in Bucharest, Sibiu, Jassy, Timișoara, Sinaia, Focșani, Arad, Deva, Clu, Ploiești, […]

The first edition of the An Artist, a Piano and a Cimbalom: Classical, Jazz, Folk national tour aimed to break down the cultural, social and ethnic barriers between musical styles in a demonstrative way, precisely the barriers that most divide people socially, more so even than economic status. A young, multitalented musician, Cătălin Răducanu, who […]

Reaching its fifth edition, the Organs of Romania National Tour returned in 2023 with twelve concerts throughout the country given by young organist Eduard Antal, continuing his exploration of the history of this fabulous instrument in the regions that make up Romania past and present, and inviting us to discover and rediscover a hidden cultural […]

At the end of June, harpist Adriana Cazacu and flautist Mihai Vaida gave concerts in Bucharest (28 June), Deva, (29 June), and Rîmnicu Vîlcea (30 June) as part of the latest edition of the ‘A Storied Harp’ national tour, subtitled Dance and Fantasy. The tour brings to the fore an original instrument preserved in exceptional […]

The twelfth edition of the Enchanted Flute national tour commenced on 12 May, bringing to Romania’s cities hit chansonettes of the Parisian bohème. Flautist Ion Bogdan Ștefănescu and accordionist Fernando Mihalache offered Romanian audiences a unique recital in which the enchanted flute and seductive accordion created a Parisian atmosphere from days gone by, a musical illustration […]

The 2023 edition of the Travelling Piano national tour, which unfolded from 4 to 30 May, featured eight recitals by pianist Horia Mihail, some of them on travelling pianos that reached various towns around the country in previous editions of the tour. Horia Mihail’s journey through the history of music for solo piano is now […]

On Wednesday, 19 April 2023, the new directions for the ‘COOLsound – online despre scena independentă românească / COOLsound – online about the Romanian independent stage’ project to support young freelance artists were announced at CREART (Teatrelli) One of the new directions that COOLsound will be taking is promotion of Generation Z, meaning future artists […]

The Three Divas Gala returned to Romania’s musical stage with a concert held for the first time in the spectacular setting of the Palace of Culture, Arad, Romania’s westernmost concert hall.  Mezzosoprano Ruxandra Donosa, sopranos Teodora Gheorghiu and Ileana Tonca appeared together for the first time as a trio on the evening of 29 November, […]

The Classical to the Power of Three – Violoncellissimo national tour set out to explore the world of the cello via a diverse and spectacular repertoire, ranging from the classical to the contemporary. The national tour took in six cities around the country—Tulcea, Piteşti, Alba Iulia, Arad, Bucharest, and Bistriţa—and featured cellist and professor Marin […]

The Enesco’s Violin Tour returned to Romania’s concert halls in the period from 18 September to 5 October 2019, with concerts in Slatina, Piteşti, Caracal, Bîrlad, Bistriţa, Timişoara, Deva, Ploieşti, and, of course, Bucharest, at the Teatrelli Hall and Radio Hall. Gabriel Croitoru, the violinist who now has the privilege of playing the Guarneri del […]

Tour extraordinaire with flautist Ion Bogdan Ştefănescu and actors Alexandru Repan and Dorel Vişan Between 6 June and 1 July 2019, flautist Bogdan Ştefănescu gave six recitals in six cities from Romania’s three historical provinces. The Enchanted Flute 2019 tour unfolded under the subheading “Flute to the Power of Poetry and was a spectacle of […]

Incredible but true: the Travelling Piano tour is now nearing its tenth year. This was perhaps hard to foresee when it all began in 2011, inspired by a story from the musical history books: the 1846-7 tour that Franz Liszt made of what would later become Romania. In 2019, the ninth annual tour is dedicated […]

The Duel of the Violins tour returns in 2019 with its “spring collection,” in a version that will take in Alba Iulia, Oradea, Cluj, and Bistrița. Violinists Liviu Prunaru and Gabriel Croitoru, seconded as ever by pianist Horia Mihail, will be marking their ninth annual bout of dueling in between the symphony concerts they give […]

Soprano Teodora Gheorghiu – first Romanian recital tour Having performed in the world’s great concert halls, soprano Teodora Gheorghiu returns to Romania for a recital tour that will take in six cities around the country between 16 and 29 March 2018. Teodora Gheorghiu will give her first recital in Pitești, before moving on to Caracal, Brașov, Alba […]

The Travelling Piano – Special “Best Of” Tour Pianist Horia Mihail is once again on the road as part of a special national tour. From 9 April to 7 May he will give eighteen recitals in seventeen cities around the country. The eighth Travelling Piano tour marks the centenary of the Great Union of Alba […]

The Enchanted Flute – “Twenty Shades of Music” Extraordinary Tour of Flautist Ion Bogdan Ștefănescu Flautist Ion Bogdan Ștefănescu is going back on the road in an extraordinary tournament. From June 3 to June 10, he will preform six recitals in six cities across the three historical provinces of Romania. The Enchanted Flute 2018 marks […]