The anniversary edition of the SoNoRo - 20 Festival, entitled "Romanian Rhapsody", will open on Friday with the concert "Between Heaven and Earth", an event that will take place in the Royal Dining Room at the National Museum of Art of Romania (MNAR).
On stage will be violinists Mihaela Martin, Erik Schumann and Alexander Sitkovetski, violists Georgy Kovalev and Răzvan Popovici, cellists Justus Grimm and Frans Helmerson and pianist Diana Ketler, and the program will include works by Arvo Pärt, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, George Enescu and Gabriel Fauré.
According to a press release sent to AGERPRES by the organizers, the festival will take place in Bucharest from October 31 to November 9, then continue in Cluj-Napoca from November 11-16.
The concerts in Bucharest will take place in spaces such as the Romanian Athenaeum, Bragadiru Palace - Godot Hall, the Royal Dining Room at the National Museum of Art of Romania, the National Art Center "Tinerimea româna", ARCUB - Hanul Gabroveni, the Great Hall, the Control Club, the Palace of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Bucharest, the Evangelical Church of the City of Bucharest, CultureHub Gallery - Kog 7 Cultural Space and the Great Hall of the Romanian Cultural Institute.
In Cluj-Napoca, the artists will perform at the Youth Pavilion - Urban Culture Center in Feroviarilor Park, the Pietati Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Reformed Church with two towers, Casa Boema, Oberjin Club - Auditorium Salon, Casa NUMAA and the Auditorium Maximum Hall at 'Babes-Bolyai' University.
On November 1, at Bragadiru Palace - Godot Hall, the Happy Birthday SoNoRo! concert is scheduled with the Amsterdam Klezmer Band - an international musical phenomenon, followed by a birthday party.
"We are ready to start the 20th edition of the SoNoRo Festival! Together with Diana Ketler, the artistic director and co-founder of the festival, we have created a surprising, playful and charming program, full of humor and self-irony. Through the theme of this year's edition, 'Romanian Rhapsody', we wanted to honor Romania musically, because here we had an environment in which we were able to create good music, perform in extraordinary spaces, dream, experiment, delight the audience and learn over the years what we can do better. Romania has allowed us to do this extraordinary thing: to create a festival with a spirit that we have rarely seen in Europe - very open and close to the audience", said Răzvan Popovici, co-founder and executive director of the SoNoRo Festival, quoted in the press release.
According to the cited source, the festival spot is an animation inspired by the festival theme, treated in a playful way, and in which many of the Romanian symbols will be recognizable. The spot was made by the team formed by Matei Branea (script, direction and animation), Ana Branea (script and editing) and Dan-Stefan Rucareanu (Sound Design & Mix); with the support of Video Dialog and Smart Sound Studio.
The surprise of the anniversary edition of the festival is the exhibition "Visual Scores - Masterpieces from Private Collections": Grigorescu, Petrascu, Mutzner, Pallady, Tuculescu, Iancu, Brauner, Maxy - from November 8, at CultureHub Gallery - Kog7 Cultural Space.
The exhibition lasts one day and can be visited between 10:00 and 22:00.
The opening will take place at 11:00 and will include a matinee performed by SoNoRo Festival artists: Diana Tishchenko (violin), Răzvan Popovici (viola), Justus Grimm (cello) and the MoldoDuo ensemble.
Many works will be exhibited for the first time and belong to emblematic artists of the 20th century.
The exhibition is structured into three thematic salons: the Salon of Graphics (engraving, drawing, watercolor), the Salon of Modern, Surrealist and Avant-garde Painting, and the Salon of Classical Romanian Art.
Included in the festival program for three years now, SoNoRo Talk fosters discussions about classical music and the role it plays in our lives. This year, the public is invited on November 9, from 5:00 PM, to SoNoRo Talk: Longing and Gift, which will take place at ARCUB - Hanul Gabroveni, Sala Mare.
Subscriptions and tickets for the concerts in Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca are available on https://eventbook.ro/festival/sonoro. UniCredit Bank cardholders can purchase tickets with a 20% discount.
Pensioners, students, pupils and disabled people benefit from a 50% discount.
The full program of the SoNoRo 20 Festival is available at https://festival.sonoro.org/.
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