Nelson Goerner and Horia Andreescu at the Radio Hall
Friday, 21 October 2011 , 19.00

The National Radio Orchestra, under maestro Horia Andreescu's baton and together with pianist Nelson Goerner invite you Friday, the 21^st of October 2011, at 19.00, at the Radio Hall, for an exceptional musical night. Skepsis im Chaos 1 by Mihnea Brumariu, Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major by Maurice Ravel and Symphony No. 1 in E minor by Jean Sibelius are works which might enlighten an autumn evening.

Exceptional pianist who conquered the great musical stages of the world with his concerts and recitals, Nelson Goerner was born in San Pedro, in 1969. He started studying the piano with Jorge Garrubba, afterwards taking classes at the Conservatorio Nacional Superior de Musica in Buenos Aires, and recommended by pianist Martha Argerich, he received a scholarship which allowed him to study at the Geneva Conservatory, graduating in 1990 from Maria Tipo's class and at the same time receiving first prize at the Geneva Competition.

Over time, Nelson Goerner collaborated with distinguished maestros of the conducting baton, among which we remind: Claus Peter Flor, Andrew Davis, Vassily Sinaisky, Franz Welser-Möst, Gerard Schwarz and he gave concerts together with Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Philharmonic Orchestras in London and Los Angeles, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony or the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Horia Andreescu is the principal conductor of the George Enescu Philharmonic, founder and conductor of the 'Virtuozii din Bucureşti' Chamber Orchestra and an associate professor doctor at the National University of Music in Bucharest. Among the awards and honors received, we remind prizes at conducting competitions in Copenhagen and Geneva, Critics Awards at the Berlin Biennial of Contemporary Music, and many other awards and honors received in Romania, among which the one of the Union of Music Critics, which declared him 'Conductor of the Year' in 1997, the National Order 'For Merit' as Officer in 2000, UNESCO Award in 2003, Romanian Composers Union Award and the National Order 'For Merit' as Big Cross in 2006. His career as a conductor includes three positions as permanent guest conductor at the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (1981-1993), the Dresdner Philharmoniker (1983-1993) and the Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle Schwerin (1981-1990).

Conductor Horia Andreescu has collaborated with every prestigious Romanian musician and among the foreign soloists who have taken part in his concerts, we remind: Anne-Sophie Mutter, Maxim Vengerov, Oleg Kagan, Vladimir Repin, Mischa Maisky, Viktor Tretiakov, Leonidas Kavakos, Michael Roll, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Dmitri Alexeev, Zoltán Kocsis, Eliso Virsaladze and others.