Ms. Adriana Bera, the 23^rd edition of the Mozart Festival will begin on 6^th December. Could you please give us some information about this edition?

Once again, we try to offer the audience, which we hope will be composed not only of the people of Cluj, works by Mozart and famous musical pieces by other composers, performed by young Romanian and foreign soloists joined by well-known names of the Romanian and European music stages. On 6^th December, there will be two symphonic concerts conducted by Mihail Agafiţa, from the Republic of Moldova, and Ladislau Horvath, from Italy. The soloists of these concerts are the young Hungarian trumpeter Margit Csökmei, winner of the first prize at the Gheorghe Dima competition in Cluj, and our dear pianist, Viniciu Moroianu.

Between the two concerts, several other interesting events will take place: a concert for children, entitled The Dressed-up Melody, a competition for singers and accompaniment pianists and a few chamber concerts performed by young performers, winners of international competitions. For example, flutist Seiya Ueno, oboist Ye Chang Jung from Korea, the violin and piano duo consisting of Friedericke Starkloff and Alexandra Schmiedel from Germany, pianist Aurelia Vişovan and members of the Transylvania Philharmonic Orchestra. A concert performed by the Arcadia Quartet will take place on 12^th December. This quartet, that has made the people of Cluj so proud, has won very important international prizes and has a spectacular career. A symposium will be held on 11^th December; during the event, interesting announcements will be made.