National Radio Orchestra - live broadcast
Friday, 23 March 2012 , 19.00

The National Radio Orchestra's concert on Friday the 23 March, at 19.00 will have as a guest conductor Gerd Schaller, for the second successive week, after he conducted the final concert of the International Vibraphone Festival last Friday.

The soloist of the concert was violinist Ioana Cristina Goicea. The programme will include the Spanish Symphony no.21 by Eduard Lalo and Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 by Sergei Rachmaninoff.

After graduating the conducting orchestra classes at the Musikhochschule Würzburg in 1993, Gerd Schaller turned to the lyrical genre, being employed at Staatsoper Hannover. In 1998 he became a first conductor at Staatstheater Braunschweig, and between the years 2003-2006 he was a General Music Director at the Theatre in Magdeburg. Gerd Scheller was an enthusiastic artist, who promotes in his appearance a large repertoire, but is always attractive for the music lovers. His repertoire takes places successfully in the area of the Italian and German music, works like Otello, La Traviata, Il Trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner's works, Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven, Salome by Richard Strauss, frequently appear in his agenda. Manager of artistic talent, Gerd Schaller is the founder and artistic director of 'Ebracher Musiksommer' Festival, organized in partnership with the Bavarian Broadcasting.

Violinist Ioana Cristina Goicea presently is a student at 'Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock', in Germany in professor Petru Munteanu's class and she is a scholar of the 'Matzen Stiftung' - Hamburg. She graduated 'Dinu Lipatti' high school in Bucharest, where she had as a violin teacher Radu Popescu and Rudolf Stamm. In 2007 she was under the guidance of maestro Ştefan Gheorghiu. Violin was a permanent presence in her life because at the age of four she began to study this musical instrument under the careful supervision of her grandfather and her mother, violinist Cristina Anghelescu.

Her prize list is impressive, over twenty-five national and international awards: First Prize and 'Reinhold Würth' Special Prize at the International Contest 'Kloster Schöntal', Germany (2011), First Prize at the International Contest 'Jaroslav Kocián' - Usti nad Orlici, Czech Republic (2008), Third Prize at the International Contest 'Andrea Postacchini' - Italy (2006), prizes at the International Contest 'Ion Voicu'- Iaşi (2009), International Contest 'George Georgescu' in Tulcea (2000, 2002), the Contest 'Garabet Avachian' - Bucharest (2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005), Contest 'Paul Constantinescu' - Ploieşti (2003, 2004, 2005). The young violinist was awarded the Prize of the Romanian Musical Performing and Mechanical rights Society in Romania (2005).

We wait you on Friday 23 March at 19.00 at Mihail Jora Radio Hall.