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Interview with pianist Axia Marinescu
Thursday, 20 November 2025
 

The "A Weekend in the East" festival takes place in Paris from November 18th to December 1st, and this year's edition celebrates the city of Bucharest and Romanian culture. The opening concert brings pianist Axia Marinescu to the stage on Wednesday, November 19th, at the Théâtre de l'Alliance Française.

Interview with guitarist Costin Soare about the “Guitar Evenings” International Festival
Thursday, 20 November 2025
 

The 12th edition of the "Guitar Evenings" International Festival, titled "Jeux de Miroirs", offers a series of recitals and masterclasses in Bucharest between November 19th-23rd, bringing to the stage three renowned guitarists - Pablo Márquez, Dragoș Ilie, and Bogdan Mihăilescu.

Interview with pianist Mihai Ritivoiu about the national tour titled “The other voice. Forgotten exiles of the piano”
Thursday, 20 November 2025
 

Mihai Ritivoiu: "It's a great initiative, fitting for the age we live in and the kind of audience that attends concerts nowadays. Decades ago, there was an expectation that the performing artist should be impenetrable, perfect, only presenting the music and then retreating into mystery, but now we want to know more about the person behind the artist."

Interview with violinist Gabriel Croitoru about the National Tour “The Violin and Enescu”
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
 

Gabriel Croitoru: "On this edition of the "The violin and Enescu" Tour, as it is now called, it is about the modern instruments that we are showcasing on stage, some of them for the first time, others not."

Interview with violinist Valentin Șerban
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
 

Violinist Valentin Șerban will give a recital on Sunday, November 16th, 2025, at 7:00 PM, at the Romanian Athenaeum, alongside pianist Mihai Diaconescu.

Interview with conductor Zhang Yi
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
 

Zhang Yi makes his debut at the rostrum of the National Radio Orchestra

Interview with historian Stejărel Olaru about his book Spațiul Celibidache (The Celibidache Space)
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
 

"It's an episode from Romania's recent history, which I tried to write as fluently as possible so that anyone could read it easily."

Interview with conductor Sergiu Celibidache
Monday, 17 November 2025
 

Impressions after his first performance upon returning to Romania, at the Radio Hall, in 1970

Interview with saxophonist Cătălin Milea
Monday, 17 November 2025
 

About the concert at the Goethe Institute with the Tetrismatic group and The Merry-Go-Round project.

Interview with Cristian Rudic, General Manager of the Romanian National Opera in Timișoara
Monday, 17 November 2025
 

Cristian Rudic: "The institution is important for the city, but even more so for the region, I would say. And I believe it's essential to make it feel familiar to the region, so that people from Banat can feel proud to have an opera house."