High-class Austrian musicians in LIVE online concerts broadcast from Iași and Bucharest

The great concert halls come wherever you want to! Some of the most remarkable Austrian musicians around are performing this spring especially for the Romanian public, in famous halls of the country, at the invitation of the Bucharest Austrian Cultural Forum and its partners: Classix Festival (Iași), "George Enescu" Philharmonic (Bucharest), Radio Romania Choirs and Orchestras (Bucharest). The programme of the "Austrian Musical Spring" 2021 consists of the following online events:

Trio Artio Concert at the Classix Festival (Iași) - March 13th, 2021, 7PM

An interpretative tumult of an impressive musical refinement. Having a dynamic, original and contemporary vision of the classical works they interpret, Trio Artio is one of the most prominent young ensembles on the Austrian musical stage. The brave repertoire choices of the Austrian violinist Judith Fliedl, German cellist Christine Roider and Austrian pianist Johanna Estermann have represented strong arguments in the Trio Artio's selection within the strict promotion programme of the young musical talents NASOM - New Austrian Sound of Music - of the Austrian Ministry for European and International Affairs for the 2020/2021 period.

For its first meeting with the Romanian public, Trio Artio is one of the special guests of the Iași Classix Festival's second edition, a musical event that is becoming a mark in Eastern Europe, and which the Bucharest Austrian Cultural Forum is proud to support since its establishment. For the "Kaleidoscopic Trends" concert, which will take place on Monday, March 15th, 7PM, in the Auditorium of the "Mihai Eminescu" Central University Library in Iași, the ensemble prepared works that are different from a harmonic point of view, but which are surprisingly complementary otherwise. There will be: Trio in B flat major, Op. 11, "Gassenhauer" by Ludwig van Beethoven, "Fragments I" for violin, cello and piano (2019) by Kurt Estermann and Trio no. 4 in E minor, Op. 90 "Dumky" by Antonin Dvořák.

The concert will be live on the Facebook pages of Classix Festival, The Austrian Cultural Forum and of mthe event partners. The access is free.

More information on https://bit.ly/TrioArtioRomania

Real-time information on https://www.facebook.com/events/432901104653388

Piano recital by Gottlieb Wallisch at the Romanian Athenaeum - March 17th, 2021, 7PM

A virtuous award-winning pianist, a denizen of the most important European concert stages, Gottlieb Wallisch gives his first recital in Romania, thanks to the collaboration between the Bucharest "George Enescu" Philharmonic and the Austrian Cultural Forum. The artist can be listened to online, directly from the Great Hall of the Romanian Athenaeum, Wednesday, March 17th from 7PM.

The programme mirrors Gottlieb Wallisch's artistic and research preoccupations. He is developing a teaching career as appreciated as the solo one: "Fantasy in D minor, K 397" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, "In the Mists (Four piano pieces)" by Leoš Janáček and "Sonata in A major, D. 959" by Franz Schubert.

The recital will be live, online on the Facebook page and YouTube channel of the "George Enescu" Philharmonic, as well as on the Austrian Cultural Forum and Radio România Muzical Facebook pages. The access is free.

More information on https://bit.ly/RecitalGottliebWallisch

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Photo Credits Gottlieb Wallisch - © Marisa Vranjes

Trio Artio Concert dedicated to the International Women's Rights Day and Month - March 17th, 2021, 6PM.

Trio Artio is a symbol for women's assertion within the European environment of classical instrumental music, which is often dominated by men. Apart from their artistic activity, the three women musicians of the ensemble are involved in different actions and events that concern equal opportunities between women and men. This year, Trio Artio is the image of the #womentothetop cultural campaign, promoted by the Austrian Ministry for European and International Affairs on the occasion of the International Women's Rights Day and Month.

On this occasion, the Bucharest Austrian Cultural Forum is offering a second concert by Trio Artio exclusively, on March 27th, between 6PM-12AM on its website. The programme consists of "Trio for violin, cello, and piano Op. 17 in G Minor" (3. Andante - più animato) by Clara Schumann; "Trio for violin, cello and piano Op. 66 in C Minor" (Allegro energico e con fuoco) by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy; "Postscriptum" (2008) by Lera Auerbach.

More information on https://bit.ly/TrioArtioRomania

Real-time information on https://www.facebook.com/events/440156423937027/

Photo credit Trio Artio - © Julia Wesely

BONUS - the Haydn-Mozart concert of the Radio Chamber Orchestra will have a rerun (March 10th, 2021)

Within their traditionala partnership, the Austrian Cultural Forum supports and promotes a wide scope project of the Radio Romania Choirs and Orchestras. On March 10th, the Radio Chamber Orchestra performed a 100% Austrian programme, under the baton of Italian conductor David Crescenzi (invited conductor of the Düsseldorf Opera - Germany - and artistic director of the Romanian National Opera from Cluj-Napoca), having the well-known Romanian soprano Rodica Vică as soloist, based in Vienna.

The concert opened with the overture of Mozart's "Lucio Silla" and the motet "Exsultate Jubilate" for soprano and orchestra, both by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In the second part, Symphony no. 104 - "Londoneza" was interpreted, Joseph Haydn's last symphony, the one who was considered a precursor of this genre.

The concert can be watched again on the Austrian Cultural Forum's Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/fca.bucuresti/videos/1330713013967785