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SoNoRo Festival to be held in November, in Bucharest, Timisoara, Cluj-Napoca, Brasov and Sibiu
The 13th edition of the SoNoRo Festival will be held in Bucharest, Timisoara, Cluj-Napoca, Brasov and Sibiu, 2-20 November.
Under the name "Side Effects," the festival will offer the audience an eclectic mix of artistic performances: chamber music concerts in the most beautiful concert halls in the country - the Cotroceni Palace, the Romanian Athenaeum, the Philharmonics in Timisoara, Brasov and Sibiu - and also in unconventional spaces - Halucinarium Art Gallery and Beer Cart penthouse in Bucharest or Boema House in Cluj-Napoca, a film screening at the French Institute and a South-American night at Bragadiru Palace, informs a press release issued by the organizers for AGERPRES on Thursday.
Vertigo, Lunatique, Hangover, Something Borrowed - Something Blue, Crimes of Passions or Del amor y otros demonios are just a few of the concert titles of this edition, each proposing a spectacular program, performed by some of the most appreciated artists in the world.
"For the first time at the SoNoRo Festival, the audience in Romania will be able to meet violinists Pavel Vernikov, Svetlana Makarova, Anna-Liisa Bezrodny and Jonian Kadesha, violist Meghan Cassidy, cellists Kyrill Zlotnikov and Jan-Erik Gustaffson or pianist Marianna Schirinyan," the release said.
The festival will end in Bucharest with a special night at the French Institute, where director Bruno Monsaingon will be invited to present his latest film ?Mstislav Rostropovich - L'archet indomptable.'
SoNoRo will continue in the rest of the country, this time in four cities, another first at this edition.
"The festival will return to Cluj-Napoca with four concerts that will divulge to the audience the various and captivating SoNoRo ?side effects': New York Counterpoint at Boema House, Capriccio Sextet at the Reformed Church or Grande Sestetto Concertante by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the Aula Magna of the Babes- Bolyai University. At Timisoara, Brasov and Sibiu, the SoNoRo Festival will bring for the first time the Rhapsodie Roumaine project, launched in January 2018 in the Musikverein Hall in Vienna," reads the press release.
Established in 2006, the SoNoRo Festival is a member of the European Festivals Association.
In addition to regular partnerships with festivals in Italy, Latvia, Germany, England, Austria, Israel and Japan, SoNoRo performed in some of the world's most famous halls, 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 - Interferences, the program of scholarships and workshops for young musicians (12 years), SoNoRo On Tour (11 years), SoNoRo Arezzo (8 years), SoNoRo Conac, the series of summer concerts hosted by heritage buildings in Romania (6 years).