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SoNoRo International Chamber Music Festival will run October 28 - November 14 in Bucharest, Timisoara, Cluj and Bistrita
The SoNoRo International Chamber Music Festival - now in its 11th year - will run October 28 - November 14 in Bucharest, Timisoara, Cluj and Bistrita, featuring 20 concerts and 23 musicians from 18 countries.
The festival's artistic directors, London-based pianist Diana Ketler and Romanian violinist Razvan Popovici, have again conceived an outstanding program both through the repertoire chosen and the prestigious guest musicians who will perform in concerts, a release of the organisers informs. Performing in the festival will be pianists Olli Mustonen and Louis Lortie, violinists Mihaela Martin, Ilya Gringolts, Philippe Graffin, viola player Lars Anders Tomter, cellists Frans Helmerson, Christian Poltera and Maximilian Hornung.
In what has already become a tradition, the opening concert will take place at the Union Hall of the Cotroceni Palace, on October 28, and will be followed by another six concerts in Bucharest until November 7; the musical event will then continue until November 14 in Timisoara, Cluj and Bistrita.
Suggestive umbrella-titles such as La Muse et Le Poet, Pour un Tombeau Sans Nom, A Clara, La Muse inspirant the Poet or La Muse Hypnotique invite the audience to a fascinating musical journey in some of the most beautiful venues of the capital: the Romanian Athenaeum, the National Military Club Palace, the St. Joseph Cathedral, the National Museum of Art of Romania and - in a first this year - the Radio Hall, the release said.
Surprises and unusual concert venues like the Carturesti Carousel bookstore, the ARCUB Inn or the POINT club, the Ion Mincu memorial house, the Lowendal Foundation residence, the Galateca Gallery and the reading hall of the Faculty of Letters will pep up the event.
In a premiere, the closing concert will take place at the Radio Hall; apart from masterpieces by Carl Maria von Weber and Antonin Dvorak, the public can choose by vote over the entire duration of the festival the composer whose piece will be played.
SoNoRo is a cultural project created in 2006 and standing under the high auspices of the Romanian Presidency.