The first concert the Radio Orchestras and Choirs give in 2010 invites Matei Bucur Mihaescu, as pianist and also as composer. I have met the young musician (who will turn 15 on January 30th) after one of the rehearsals in the 'Mihail Jora' Studio in order to learn a few things about him and about his compositions.


Which of your works have you chosen to perform in this concert on January 13th 2010?

I will suggest the audience a correspondence between the baroque music and the romantic modern one. Most of my compositions are written in baroque style and now I am going to present some new romantic works.


Do you study with anybody? Do you attend composition classes?

No, I do not. I study piano at the 'George Enescu' Music School. I have never taken composition lessons.


You are then a self-educated person.

Yes, I like to believe that.


As you have done on other occasions, you collaborate on this concert with colleagues of yours who are also very good instrumentalists. How do you get on with them? Do you take suggestions from them?

Of course. We want to offer the public something beautiful and I hope this will happen. The challenge tonight is the Concerto for trumpet and orchestra, a very complex work which implies a lot of effort, and I hope I shall enrich the literature in our field with it.


What is your next project?

We shall probably organize a tour in all the philharmonics in the country where we shall present works performed in this concert, as well as new pieces that are now worked on.


So, you are going to perform your own compositions in this tour, too.

Yes, I am. And I hope I shall be able to collaborate at least with some of the instrumentalists I perform with in this concert.

Interview by: Irina Cristina Vasilescu
Translated by Andrea Niculae
MA Student, MTTLC, Bucharest University