National Radio Orchestra - live broadcast
Friday, 1 June 2012 , 19.00

Friday, 1 June 2012, at 19.00 the National Radio Orchestra invites you to a concert that puts the spotlight on pianist Dana Borşan, performing-soloist of the Radio Music Bands, and on conductor József Horváth.

In the opening will be performed the tone poem Kikimora Op. 63 by Anatoly Liadov, composed in 1909, but which includes pages composed prior to that year, for a work that remained unfinished.

The second part of the programme is dedicated to composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23 that will have as soloist Dana Borşan, and Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64.

Fascinating performer, with in impressive power of expression, an artist with an ideal musicality, Dana Borşan has won a well-deserved place in the elite of Romanian piano players. University professor doctor at the National University of Music in Bucharest, Dana Borşan is since 2000 a performing soloist of the Radio Music Bands.

Born in Cluj, a graduate of the National University of Music in Bucharest and beneficiary of a scholarship of the European Community at Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, disciple of maestros Gabriel Amiraş and Georg Sava, Dana Borşan went to artistry classes with Hans Leygraf at Mozarteum - Salzburg and Hélène Boschi at Weimar.

Her debut at only twelve years old with Rondo for Piano and Orchestra in D major by Mozart, confirmed the birth of an unusual talent.

A decisive moment in her career was receiving the Second Prize and the Silver Medal at one of the most important international competition: the Robert Schumann Competition in Zwickau.

Dana Borşan's name has been a constant, for over thirty-five years, on the posters of all philharmonics in Romania and in concert programmes abroad. She held, in seventeen countries (Germany, France, Italy, Ireland, Great Britain, Norway, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, Moldavia, Bulgaria, China, Hungary, etc.), over 900 concerts and recitals, each time proposing meaningful programmes, with various repertoires, true challenges for the evolution of any pianist.

József Horváth graduated the courses of the Gheorghe Dima Academy of Music in Cluj-Napoca, where he studied with Florentin Mihăiescu, Cornel Groza, Gheorghe Victor Dumănescu. He went to artistry classes held by musicians of good repute such as Christfried Brödel, János Fürst, Kurt Masur, George Pehlivanian, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, watching at the same time rehearsals and concerts by conductors Claudio Abbado, Rudolf Barshai, Sir Colin Davis, Adam Fischer, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Valery Gergiev, Philippe Herreweghe, Leonard Slatkin, Pinchas Steinberg, Jesús López-Cobos and Georges Prêtre.

Since 1999 József Horváth has been the conductor of the Hungarian Opera in Cluj-Napoca, and since November 2006 of the Romanian Opera in the same city. This year he will also be the artistic director of the Liszt 200 Festival, an event of great magnitude which comprises numerous concerts, recitals and various artistic manifestations.

József Horváth founded the Classica Orchestra in Cluj-Napoca, whose artistic director he is, with the purpose to promote young artists from Transylvania. He is often invited by philharmonic orchestra in Arad, Bacău, Braşov, Cluj-Napoca, Satu-Mare, Sibiu, Timişoara, Târgu-Mureş, he collaborates with the Chamber Orchestra and the National Radio Orchestra, the Radio Academic Chorus and the Budapest Broadcasting Chorus. He also conducted the RTVE Symphony Orchestra in Madrid.