Dear music lovers,
It is almost November. Are you ready to let yourself engulfed by music, emotion, light and colour? For thirteen days, between November 1st to 13th , the first chamber music festival in Bucharest will turn the city into music and vibration. The sounds of the capital city will echo into distance, reaching Iasi and Cluj. Because November is the SoNoRo month.
The chamber music will echo this year in spectacular halls, such as Cotroceni Palace and The Palace of the National Military Circle, in places with a rich musical tradition, like the Romanian Athenaeum, George Enescu Museum and Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj- Napoca, or in surprising locations, which we are reinventing for the chamber music: St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Bragadiru Palace or “Mihai Eminescu” Central University Library in Iasi.
As we have accustomed you in our previous editions, every SoNoRo night will surprise you with something new. The enthusiatic trio of Felix Mendelssohn – Bartholdy, interpreted by piano player Mihaela Ursuleasa, will open the festival at The Cotroceni Palace; Chen Chalevi, the Israeli clarinet player, accompanied by the video projections of the ingenious VJ Andu Dumitrescu, will interpret the prayers and hallucinating dreams for klezmer clarinet and string quartet of Osvaldo Golijov, author of the movie soundtrack for Youth without Youth, by Francis Ford Coppola. St. Joseph’s
Cathedral will host the ensemble led by the famous violinist Daishin Kashimoto, the new leading concertmaster of Berlin Philarmonica. Sans orchestre, the innovative project of the renowned “fiddler from Santa Barbara”, Gilles Apap and Colours of Invention, a group from Paris, will recreate the well-known classic lounge atmosphere of Bragadiru Palace. In an exciting Finale, the double concert by J.S.Bach and the exuberant piano quartet by Richard Strauss will echo in the interpretation of Ensamble Raro, the in residence ensemble of the SoNoRo Festival, followed by L’histoire du soldat by Igor Stravinski, the famous story about a violin, the devil, a princess and the stock market speculations.
At the SoNoRo Festival music is rhythm, image, poetry, flavour and a fascinating journey in the search for the perfect sound. This is why we are inviting you to listen to the photographs signed by Serban Mestecaneanu at the PointContemporary Gallery and to discover perfect tonalities in Pianomania, a movie shown in premiere, in partnership with TIFF – The Transilvania International Film Festival.
We welcome you to SoNoRo, the festival where you can enjoy music, art and beauty.
Răzvan Popovici
Violist &
Director of the SoNoRo Festival
