The 31-year-old Romanian pianist Andrei Gologan, called by Süddeutsche Zeitung "a poet of the piano", will give an extraordinary recital in the Great Hall of the Romanian Athenaeum on Wednesday, 13^th of November 2024, as part of the series "Heirs of Musical Romania" organized by Radio Romania Music and Rotary Club Pipera.

Young and exceptional Romanian musicians, known abroad rather than at home, are invited to perform recitals and concerts in relevant concert halls in Romania. Andrei Gologan, originally from Piatra Neamț, where he also began his piano studies, has been based in Salzburg since 2012, since he became a student at the Mozarteum University of the well-known Austrian city. Today, the pianist Andrei Gologan is an internationally relevant name, with recitals and concerts in important concert halls in Europe, involved in ambitious projects such as his own chamber music festival in Salzburg, organized with his wife, the pianist Roxana Cârciu, with whom he also forms a piano duo.

Andrei Gologan was one of the guests at the George Enescu International Festival 2023, where he performed Benjamin Britten's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with the Transilvania Philharmonic Orchestra of Cluj, conducted by Jonathon Heyward.

For his first recital on the stage of the Romanian Athenaeum, Andrei Gologan has prepared a program with the theme "Music of the Spheres", music that inspires us and transports us to other worlds. Some are fundamental works of the piano repertoire, such as Johannes Brahms' Sonata No. 3 and George Enescu's Pavana from Suite Op. 10. Others are virtually unknown to the general public: this is the case of the three miniatures by Komitas, an Armenian composer who lived between 1869 and 1935, an Orthodox priest who captures in his music both the transcendent and the Armenian national specificity, but also the two works by Aleksandr Skriabin on the program - Poem Op. 32 No. 1 and Mazurka Op. 25 No. 3, another form of search for the absolute in music from the border of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Andrei Gologan: "Few places inspire an artist like the Romanian Athenaeum, a pantheon of European culture. A unique scene in a city shaped by a multitude of cultural influences, each contributing to the uniqueness of this place. A bohemian, poetic, "Western" city, but at the same time rooted in Balkan-Byzantine culture. It is precisely this extraordinary cultural melting pot that I propose for the recital on November 13^th: the mysticism of the East meets the poetic nostalgia of the West. The common element is a search for the primordial flame, the Promethean superman, the spheres."

An extraordinary recital with a Romanian pianist recognized for the depth and originality of his interpretations, with a provocative, innovative repertoire and a theme appropriate for today: Andrei Gologan and "The Music of the Spheres" at the Romanian Athenaeum, in the series "Heirs of Musical Romania" presented by Radio România Muzical and Rotary Club Pipera.

Tickets are available at the Romanian Athenaeum box office and online http://www.example.com/Link22.

The pianist Andrei Gologan distinguishes himself on the international scene by the refinement and depth of his interpretations, fascinating the audience with a unique sound palette. Andrei has been characterized by the international press as "a poet of the piano" (Süddeutsche Zeitung) with "a rich variety of sonorities" and a "brilliant technique" (General-Anzeiger Bonn).

Remarkable since his studies at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, Andrei was invited by the legendary pianist Sir András Schiff to perform in the renowned program

Building Bridges program, a series of debut recitals in important concert halls such as the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the deSingel in Antwerp and the Beethovenhaus in Bonn. Praising reviews have led to invitations from several prestigious European festivals, such as the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Heidelberger Frühling, Mozartwoche in Salzburg or the George Enescu International Festival in Bucharest. Appearances in London's Wigmore Hall, Munich's Herkulessaal and, at the invitation of maestro Daniel Barenboim, the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin crown his rich record.

Laureate of the international competitions Vladimir Horowitzdin Kiev, Piano Campus in Paris and Sigismund Thalberg in Naples, Andrei Gologan collaborates as soloist with orchestras such as Camerata Salzburg, the Kiev Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sándor Végh Chamber Orchestra and the Transilvania State Philharmonic. An accomplished musician, Andrei is also passionate about the world of chamber music, performing at major chamber music festivals such as Lockenhaus, Verbier, Schwetzinger SWR Festspielesor Krzyzowa Chamber Music Festival.

His passion for chamber music has materialized in the organization of the virtual platform ONLINE: concerts&talks, curating together with the Austrian television FS1 a total of 25 chamber music groups with more than 60 internationally recognized musicians.Andrei developed the idea of this initiative and, together with pianist Roxana Ioana Circiu, he founded the Buzz Kammermusikfestival international chamber music festival in Obertrum am See. Following a successful inaugural festival, the second edition is scheduled for April 2025.

Born in Piatra Neamț, Andrei currently lives in Salzburg and, as of fall 2024, is a member of the chamber music department at the University of Music in Freiburg.

The project "Heirs of Musical Romania"

...organized by Radio România Muzical and Rotary Club Pipera, has developed in recent years in two directions. The first of these aims to bring Romania's young and exceptional musicians to prestigious Romanian stages, artists who are very active abroad but whom the Romanian public rarely has the chance to hear at home. The recitals in this project are addressed to a wide audience, with an accessible repertoire and a duration of one hour, without intermission.

More than 30 concerts and recitals have taken place since 2018: cellist Andrei Ioniță, violinist Ioana Cristina Goicea, cellist Valentin Răduțiu, pianists Florian Mitrea, Adela Liculescu, Axia Marinescu are just some of the protagonists. Under the aegis of the same project, three albums have also been published by Editura Casa Radio, featuring performances from recitals or recordings made as part of the project.

The second area of development is the "Heirs of Musical Romania" grant. In 2020, Radio România Muzical and Rotary Club Pipera also initiated the "Heirs of Musical Romania" scholarship for young musicians aged between 16 and 24. The winners of the scholarship worth 4000 euro were pianist Cadmiel Boțac (2020), cellist Cornelius Zirbo (2021), pianist Kira Frolu (2022), pianist Nil Mladin (2023) and cellist Jan Sekaci (2024).

Organizers: Radio România Muzical, Rotary Club Pipera, Filarmonica "George Enescu"

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