This week, you will return to the Radio Hall stage, together with the Radio National Orchestra and the Academic Choir, for a concert inscribed in the International Week of New Music. What are your thoughts about this event, which has become a tradition on the stages all over Bucharest?

I would say that it is an interesting prospect for the future as well. As a matter of fact, this concert is not the first concert I conduct within this festival, but I am very happy to have taken over this program. Although it is quite complicated, I am very happy that I will be the conductor for this music, and I hope that I will succeed together with the orchestra and the soloists to perform these works at their true value.

The schedule for Friday evening includes three works.

Crash by Adrian Iorgulescu as a first absolute audition, Seven for two pianos and orchestra by Cristian Bence-Muk, and Rememberance - A Romanian Requiem by Ștefan Niculescu. Can you tell us what the particularities of the pieces we are going to hear are, and how they fit within the theme of the festival, "The Carnival's Constellation"?

They integrate very well and are exactly the music that this festival promotes. Two of these three works, Seven by Cristian Bence-Muk and Crash by Adrian Iorgulescu, are newly written works, while Romanian Requiem by Ștefan Niculescu is an older work, and we can say that it is being performed for the second time, I believe.

The particularities of these works are different. Each of one them has its own personality. I discerned many interesting things in these scores. I was talking to the composer Cristian Bence-Muk, and I told him that his work for two pianos suggests another work to me, the "Enigma Variations" by Edward Elgar.

Right here, in the work Seven, there are seven parts: pride, laziness, debauchery, anger, stinginess, greed, and envy. All of these are part of human character. And I noticed that the author has very accurately rendered the character of these states through these musical micro-tableaux.

If I refer to the work of maestro Adrian Iorgulescu, likewise, for me it is very interesting and I was especially surprised by the dialogue between the two solo instruments, clarinet and trombone, supported, of course, by the orchestra. It is a work with a lot of potential for very strong energy. Permanently, the orchestra accumulates energy, and, at a certain moment, there is a climax, after which, again, it returns to smaller nuances, and again, strong energies accumulate soundly. The soloists are very good.

About the Romanian Requiem by Ștefan Niculescu, I must tell you that it is a fairly complicated score and difficult to achieve in terms of sound construction. It is of a dramatic nature… I am referring here to the way of orchestration that maestro Ștefan Niculescu had. It is a very dense writing. The orchestra is permanently in a very strong sonic tension, and the choir must be balanced with the orchestra in order for the message to stand out.

It is a rather complicated program, especially for a conductor who has taken over this program, but with the participation of the orchestra and everyone involved in this project, I hope to bring the audience an interesting, well-constructed program, so that the audience will be very satisfied and interested in this music.

For me, this event is like a celebration. From what I listened to, I was very happy and satisfied.

In the concert programmes that you conduct, one can often find works from the Romanian repertoire. What importance do you think public exposure to music signed by Romanian composers has?

It is very important to bring Romanian music to concerts. Unfortunately, I came to the realisation that Romanian music isn't performed much on the big stages. I am one of those who try to promote performing Romanian music through the different projects that I bring forth. The philharmonics are focused on programmes more accessible to the public.

The Romanian national music deserves a spot within our programmes and philharmonic stages.

I know you are a permanent conductor for the "Mihail Jora" Philharmonic in Bacău. What future events do you have on your schedule?

The next event is right now, on May 29th, where I will have a concert dedicated to children. It will be Poulenc, the story about the little elephant, Babar. In the programme, there will be the Toys' Symphony and another work from the movie The Sound of Music.

So, it will be a programme interesting both for kids, as well as the parents who will be accompanying them to the concert.