The International Week of New Music at the Radio Concert Hall
Friday, 27 May 2011 , 19.00

The Radio Orchestras and Choirs participate this year as well in the most important festival dedicated to contemporary music. Between May 25^th and 27^th 2011, the Radio Concert Hall is to host three of the performances included in the International Week of New Music held by the Radio Chamber Orchestra, the Radio Academic Choir and the Radio National Orchestra.

Contemporary music gathers together the artists and the audience again this year in May. The International Week of New Music is a well-known festival that everyone is eagerly waiting for as every edition makes a perfect display of the new works and their composers and brings into the foreground the most recent musical composition. New conceptions and various angles that enable a better understanding of contemporary music as well as the artistic vision are revealed.

At the end of May, the stages in Bucharest are to host the new works performed by Romanian artists dedicated to contemporary arts as well as foreign musicians who have been invited to express their ideas and share their fulfilments during a week that celebrates music, art and the creative restlessness as well as the personal rewards, the intellectual challenges, the sharing of ideas and artistic emotions.

For more details go to www.simn2011.eu

On Wednesday, May 25^th starting 19:00, the Radio Chamber Orchestra under the baton of conductor George Balint is to perform the 4 Seasons, in an arrangement by ´4 Poets/Composers´. Soloists Ana Mirescu, Adriana Alexandru, Nicolae Lupu, Ores Pâslariu Ranghilof and the Acoustic Choir will perform on lyrics by Nichita Stănescu, Sf. Efrem Sirul, George Bacovia and Ion Stratan. The verses are turned into musical language by Romanian composers Laura Manolache, Nicolae Teodoreanu, Dana Cristina Probst and George Balint.

Thursday, May 26^th starting 19:00, the Radio Academic Choir is to perform the ´Symphonists in the Romanian Choral Music´ concert conducted by Dan Mihai Goia. The program includes Pascal Bentoiu´s Prelude to the opera Hamlet, Adrian Pop´s Hora miresii (The Bride's Hora), Cornelia Tăutu´s Religious Choral Triptych, Ţipurituri by Nicolae Brânduş, Salve Regina by Octavian Nemescu (organist Simona Popovici) and Graffiti by Adrian Enescu, on lyrics by William Shakespeare with pianist Carmen Săndulescu.

The last concert within the International Week of New Music at the Radio Concert Hall is to be performed by the National Radio Orchestra alongside the Radio Academic Choir on Friday, May 27^th starting 19:00. Under the baton of conductor Valentin Doni, the two ensembles are to offer the audience works such as Drumuri în lumină II (Ways into the Light II) by Ulpiu Vlad, Grădina (The Garden) arrangement for three solo voices, chorus and orchestra by Carmen Cârneci, Alterego, Concerto for Two Violins and Orchestra by Maia Ciobanu as well as Archimedes Symphony by Livia Teodorescu.

The soloists of the evening are soprano Bianca Manoleanu, tenor Nicolae Simonov, baritone Jean-Kristof Bouton and violinists Cornelia Bronzetti and Juhani Palola (Finland).

On Saturday, May 28^th starting 19:00 at the Radio Hall, you will also be able to listen to the show performance Idile şi Guerille (Idylls and Guerillas) by Dan Dediu for piano four hands with Valentina Sandu-Dediu and Dan Dediu.

The performances within the International Week of New Music are held in collaboration with the Union of Romanian Composers and Musicologists.