American Romanian Festival

ARF String Quartet in the Enescu Soirees Online / March 11, 2021
2021-03-11 14:00 (Europe/Bucharest) | Romanian Cultural Institute Cultural Center, New York City, NY, United States
The ARF String Quartet in the Enescu Soirees Online / March 11, 2021
Online Chamber Music Concert
Thursday, March 11, 2021, 2:00 p.m. EST
Online Event, Romanian Cultural Institute

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The Romanian Cultural Institute’s popular online music series will feature one of the most important Romanian-American collaborative projects, the American Romanian Festival String Quartet (ARF Quartet), featuring: Sujin Lim – violin, Marian Tănău – violin, Mike Chen – viola, and Jeremy Crosmer – cello. The program features a rarely played piece, “On the River Argeș” by Theodor Grigoriu (1926–2014), an important composer and a musicologist in Romanian of the second half of the 20th century.
Watch on Romanian Cultural Institute’s FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE, INSTAGRAM and WEBSITE from Thursday, March 11, 2 p.m. EST or anytime later!

Artists
Sujin Lim, violin
Marian Tănău, violin
Mike Chen, viola
Jeremy Crosmer, cello

Concert Program
Theodor Grigoriu (1926–2014)
String Quartet “On the River Arges”
Ballade: Moderato poco rubato
Dance with flute
A la sorce: Lento soave
The small willow: Allegro molto

Program Notes
Theodor Grigoriu, composer
Theodor Grigoriu was born in 1926 in Galati, Romania. He studied at the Music Conservatory in Bucharest with composer Mihail Jora, who was a mentor to many Romanian composers. At the age of 17, Grigoriu received the prestigious “George Enescu” prize for a string quartet composition. In 1954, he traveled to Russia to study in Moscow with Aram Khachaturian.
His compositions include songs, choral works, cantatas, music for solo instruments, and orchestral music, as well as music for theater and film.
On the Argeș River (Pe Argeș în sus) is a string quartet composed in 1952. The work is in four movements and has a programmatic character. In this work, Grigoriu communicates the feelings roused by a walk alongside the upper part of the Argeș River in Romania. The title of the quartet quotes the first verse of a famous folk ballad about the building of the Curtea de Argeș Monastery, a famous architectural construction from the 16th century.
The composer uses original themes, as well as some folk tunes, from this region of Romania and creates a musical tapestry full of color, intricate harmonies, and simplicity.
The first movement, “Ballade” (“Balada”) is a fantasy that starts in a declamatory style. The theme is inspired by the folk story Ballad of Manole (Balada lui Manole). The introduction is followed by a fast section full of vivaciousness and complex and spirited rhythms. There are sounds imitating horns, which are reminiscent of Romania’s medieval past. The main theme of the first movement is the musical representation of the heroic acts of Manole and his team in raising the famous Monastery.
The second movement, “Whistle Dance” (“Joc din fluier”), is a quick scherzo evocative of a Romanian folk festival. It suggests happiness and fresh humor as might be felt by festival revelers who are dancing the hora. The string techniques employed emulate the sounds of the whistle.
The third movement, “At the Springs” (“La izvoare”), is meditative in nature. It is a series of variations expressing the walk along the river toward the spring, and conveying a reflective stop where the protagonist would rest to admire the river and nature.
The fourth movement, “Little Willow” (“Sălcioara”), is a rondo with the repeating theme of a folk dance by the same name. The middle part reintroduces and ties together the main idea of the entire work, the “Balada.” The movement ends with an energetic and fast finale.

Established in 1969 as the Romanian Library, the Romanian Cultural Institute (RCI) in North America is one of Romania’s oldest cultural diplomacy vehicles. The transformation from a library to a cultural center and, since 2004, a cultural institute has marked almost five decades of development and periodic reinvention.
Endowed with a versatile institutional identity, the RCI is at once a curator, promoter, producer of artistic and cultural events, resource center and learning hub, which act in synergy to showcase the diversity and vibrancy of Romanian artistic, cultural and academic scene and to galvanize the Romanian-American cultural relations at all levels. While based in New York City, the RCI aspires to a Pan-American presence as our projects cover the whole of the United States and major cultural centers in Canada.
The RCI also acts as the principle artistic agency for Romanian artists in the United States and beyond. A networking specialist, it works to establish thriving, ever-expanding partnerships among Romanian and American cultural organizations, public or independent.
The RCI in North America is placed under the common heading of The Romanian Cultural Institute (the Bucharest HQ) and Romania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is part of the 18-strong network of similar organizations scattered on four continents that constitute the backbone of Romania’s efforts to promote culture and arts throughout the world.​
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Chamber Orchestra Concert / February 3, 2020
2020-02-03 19:30 (Europe/Bucharest) | Schaver Recital Hall, Wayne State University, 480 W Hancock St, Detroit, MI, 48201, United States
Chamber Orchestra Concert: With Wayne State University students and faculty and guests from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Chamber Music Concert
Monday, February 3, 2020, 7:30 p.m.
Wayne State University, Schaver Recital Hall, 480 W Hancock St, Detroit, MI 48201
Free Admission

The American Romanian Festival once again presents the Wayne State University Orchestra, joined by WSU faculty and musicians from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, in an evening of music guaranteed to help you travel over plains and borders. The first part of the program features Arthur Foote’s melodious and dynamic Serenade for Strings, followed by Exorcisme, a work for flute and chamber orchestra by Romanian composer Remus Georgescu and featuring WSU alumnus Shantanique Moore, currently a fellow with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. The concert continues with the Almajan Suite by Remus Georgescu and selections from Old American Songs by Aaron Copland, featuring Wayne State University’s newly appointed voice professor Jonathan Lasch. The concerts ends with Constantin Silvestri’s melodious, playful, and fiery Three Pieces for String Orchestra.
This concert is given as part of this season’s American Romanian Festival.

Artists
Kypros Markou, conductor
Jonathan Lasch, baritone
Shantanique Moore, flute
Wayne State University Orchestra

Concert Program
Arthur Foote (1853–1937)
Serenade, Op. 25
Praeludium: Allegro comodo
Air: Adagio, ma non troppo
Intermezzo: Allegretto grazioso
Romanze: Andante con moto
Gavotte: Allegro deciso

Remus Georgescu (b. 1932)
Exorcisme for Flute and String Orchestra
Shantanique Moore, flute

– INTERMISSION –

Remus Georgescu (b. 1932)
Suita Almăjană for String Orchestra
Allegro semplice
Lento, un poco rubato
Allegro moderato

Aaron Copland (1900–1990)
Old American Songs
Simple Gifts
I Bought Me a Cat
At the River
Zion’s Walls
Jonathan Lasch, baritone

Constantin Silvestri (1913–1969)
Three Pieces for Strings
Pesante. Scherzoso
Cantabile
Veloce

From America to the East / November 9, 2019
2019-11-09 15:00 (Europe/Bucharest) | Steinway Piano Gallery, 2700 E. West Maple Rd., Commerce Charter Township, MI, 48390, United States
From America to the East — Piano Trios
Chamber Music Concert
Saturday, November 9, 2019, 3 p.m.
Steinway Piano Gallery Detroit, 2700 E West Maple Rd, Commerce Charter Twp, MI 48390
$20 Admission
Join us for the chamber music concert “From America to the East” performed at Steinway Piano Gallery.
This concert is given as part of this season’s American Romanian Festival.

Artists
Marian Tănău, violin
Jeremy Crosmer, cello
Kazimierz Brzozowski, piano

Concert Program

George Enescu (1881–1955)
Piano Trio in g minor
Allegro molto vivace
Allegretto grazioso
Andante
Presto

Chick Corea (b. 1940)
Addendum

– INTERMISSION –

Dimitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)
Piano Trio No.2, Op. 67
Andante
Allegro con brio
Largo
Allegretto

Sponsors

Profane & Sacred / Saturday, October 19, 2019
2019-10-19 15:00 (Europe/Bucharest) | Steinway Piano Gallery, 2700 E. West Maple Rd., Commerce Charter Township, MI, 48390, United States
Profane & Sacred
Chamber Music Concert
Saturday, October 19, 2019, 3 p.m.
Steinway Piano Gallery Detroit, 2700 E West Maple Rd, Commerce Charter Twp, MI 48390
$20 Admission
Join us for the chamber music concert “Profane & Sacred” performed at Steinway Piano Gallery.
This concert is given as part of this season’s American Romanian Festival.

Artists
Sujin Lim, violin
Marian Tănău, violin
Mike Chen, viola
Jeremy Crosmer, cello

Concert Program
Gabriel Malancioiu (b. 1979)
Profane & Sacred for two violins and viola

Ede Terényi (b. 1935)
String Quartet No. 2
Tempo I Presto
Andante Maestoso
Allegro vivace
Andante cantabile
Allegretto

Ciprian Porumbescu (arr. Jeremy Crosmer)
Balad

– INTERMISSION –

Theodor Grigoriu (b. 1926)
String Quartet “On the River Arges”
Ballade: Moderato poco rubato
Dance with flute
A la sorce: Lento soave
The small willow: Allegro molto

Sponsors

From Romania: Grigoriu & Terényi String Quartets / October 18, 2019
2019-10-18 11:30 (Europe/Bucharest) | Schaver Recital Hall, Wayne State University, 480 W Hancock St, Detroit, MI, 48201, United States
From Romania: Grigoriu & Terényi String Quartets
Chamber Music Concert
Friday, October 18, 2019, 11:30 a.m.
Wayne State University, Schaver Recital Hall, 480 W Hancock St, Detroit, MI 48201
Free Admission
Join us for the chamber music concert “From Romania: Grigoriu & Terényi String Quartets” performed at Wayne State University’s Schaver Recital Hall
This concert is given as part of this season’s American Romanian Festival.

Artists
Sujin Lim, violin
Marian Tănău, violin
Mike Chen, viola
Jeremy Crosmer, cello

Concert Program
Ede Terényi (b. 1935)
String Quartet No. 2
Tempo I Presto
Andante Maestoso
Allegro vivace
Andante cantabile
Allegretto

Theodor Grigoriu (b. 1926)
String Quartet “On the River Arges”
Ballade: Moderato poco rubato
Dance with flute
A la sorce: Lento soave
The small willow: Allegro molto

Sponsors

The Power of Words & Song / September 27, 2019
2019-09-27 11:30 (Europe/Bucharest) | Schaver Recital Hall, Wayne State University, 480 W Hancock St, Detroit, MI, 48201, United States
The Power of Words & Song
Chamber Music Concert
The Power of Words & Song
September 27, 2019, 11:30 a.m.
Wayne State University, Schaver Recital Hall, 480 W Hancock St, Detroit, MI 48201
Free Admission
Join us for the chamber music concert “The Power of Words and Song” performed at Wayne State University’s Schaver Recital Hall.
This concert is given as part of this season’s American Romanian Festival.

Artists
Anné-Marie Condacse, soprano
Marina Ionescu, piano

Concert Program
George Grigoriu (1927–1999)
The Music from
The Waves of the Danube
Tiberiu Brediceanu (1877–1968)
Under the flowers when I swing (Pe sub flori mă legănai)
The cuckoo has left (S’a dus cucul de p’aici)
George Enescu (1881–1955)
From La Seceriș:
Little flower on the water (Floricică de pe apă)
Stanca’s Song (Doina Stăncuței)
Diamandi Gheciu (1892–1980)
Morning Prayer (Morgengebet)
The Rag (Zdreanță)
Nicolae Bretan (1887–1968)
Sleeping Little Birds (Somnoroase păsărele)
Pascal Bentoiu (b. 1927)
About War (Despre război)
Florin Comişel (1922–1985)
The Fairy Tales Prince Charming (Făt Frumos)
from Leonard
Felicia Donceanu (b. 1931)
Amărată Turturea
Testament

Sponsors

Cvartet şi Octete: Opposites / April 20, 2019
2019-04-20 19:00 (Europe/Bucharest) | Sala Capitol, Filarmonica Banatul, Timișoara, Q62G+8G, Romania
Cvartet şi Octete: Opposites
Muzica de Cameră
Cvartet şi Octete: Opposites
Sambata, 20 Aprilie, 2019, ora 19:00
Sala Capitol, Filarmonica Banatul, Timisoara, Romania
Admission Tickets Sold At Door by Timișoara Philharmonic
Join us for the chamber music concert “Opposites” performed in Timisoara, Romania.
This concert is given as part of the Romanian concerts as part of this season’s American Romanian Festival.

Artists
Lucian Petrilă, vioară
Sujin Lim, vioară
Gabriela Petrilă, vioară
Marian Tănău, violin
Mike Chen, violă
Iuliana Ambaruș, violă
Alexandra Guţu, violoncel
Jeremy Crosmer, violoncel

Concert Program
Philip Glass (b. 1937)
String Quartet No. 5 (1991)
I
II
III
IV
V

– Pauză –

Marc Mellits (b. 1966)
Octet de Coarde (2010)
strong, aggressive, heavy, & accented
slow
with motion & funk
industrial, massive
Dimitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)
Octet de Coarde, Op. 11 (1925)
Prelude. Adagio
Scherzo. Allegro molto

Sponsors

Muzica de Cameră: Crossroads / April 19, 2019
2019-04-19 19:00 (Europe/Bucharest) | Sala Perian, Colegiul National de Art “Ion Vidu”, Timișoara, P6WM+PQ, Romania
Muzica de Cameră: Crossroads
Muzica de Cameră
Vineri, 19 Aprilie, 2019, ora 19:00
Sala Perian, Colegiul National de Art “Ion Vidu”, Timisoara, Romania
Admission Tickets Sold At Door by Timișoara Philharmonic
Join a string quartet of Detroit Symphony Orchestra musicians for the chamber music concert “Crossroads” at in Timisoara, Romania. The classical music road evolved through the centuries with distinct styles that were characteristic during certain historical periods. The music of the 20th century, however, continued without a dominant style. Composers created highly diverse works in many different musical styles, such as Modernism, Impressionism, post-Romanticism, Neoclassicism, Expressionism, Minimalism Atonality, Serialism, musique concrète, and electronic music. Bartók, Barber, and Terényi all took a different tack in their works with a very distinct personal voice. Their styles are at crossroads.

This concert is given as part of the Romanian concerts as part of this season’s American Romanian Festival.

Artists
Marian Tănău, vioară
Sujin Lim, vioară
Mike Chen, violă
Jeremy Crosmer,violoncel

Concert Program
Ede Terényi (b. 1935)
Cvartet de Coarde No. 1
Adagio
Allegro moderato
Tranquillo
Vivace
Lento assai
Samuel Barber (1910–1981)
Cvartet de Coarde Op. 11 in si minor (1936)
Molto allegro e appassionato
Molto adagio [attacca]
Molto allegro (come prima)
– Pauză –
Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
Cvartet de Coarde No. 5, Sz. 102, BB 110 (1934)
Allegro
Adagio molto
Scherzo: alla bulgarese
Andante
Finale: Allegro vivace

Sponsors

Recital de Trio cu Pian: From America to the East / April 17, 2019
2019-04-17 19:00 (Europe/Bucharest) | Sala Capitol, Filarmonica Banatul, Timișoara, Q62G+8G, Romania
Recital de Trio cu Pian: From America to the East
Muzica Recital
Miercuri, 17 Aprilie, 2019, ora 19:00
Sala Capitol, Filarmonica Banatul, Timisoara, Romania
Admission Tickets Sold At Door by Timișoara Philharmonic
Join us for the chamber music concert “From America to the East” in Timisoara, Romania.
This concert is given as part of the Romanian concerts as part of this season’s American Romanian Festival.

Artists
Marian Tănău, vioară
Alexandra Guţu, violoncel
Victor Părău, pian

Concert Program
Amy Beach (1867–1944)
Trio cu Pian, Op. 150
Allegro
Lento expressivo
Allegro con brio
William Bolcom (b. 1938)
Trio Primavara
Chick Corea (b. 1940)
Addendum
– Pauză –
Dimitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)
Trio cu Pian No. 2, Op. 67
Andante
Allegro con brio
Largo
Allegretto

Sponsors

Crossroads Chamber Music Concert / March 9, 2019
2019-03-09 15:00 (America/Detroit) | Steinway Piano Gallery, 2700 E. West Maple Rd., Commerce Charter Township, MI, 48390, United States
Chamber Music: Crossroads
Chamber Concert
Saturday, March 9, 2019, 3 p.m.
Steinway Piano Gallery Detroit, 2700 E West Maple Rd, Commerce Charter Twp, MI 48390
$20 Admission Tickets
Join a string quartet of Detroit Symphony Orchestra musicians for the chamber music concert “Crossroads” at Steinway Piano Gallery.
The classical music road evolved through the centuries with distinct styles that were characteristic during certain historical periods. The music of the 20th century, however, continued without a dominant style. Composers created a highly diverse works in many different musical styles, such as Modernism, Impressionism, post-Romanticism, Neoclassicism, Expressionism, Minimalism Atonality, Serialism, musique concrète, and electronic music. Bartók, Barber, and Glass all took a different tack in their works with a very distinct personal voice. Their styles are at crossroads.
This concert is given in preparation for the Romanian concerts as part of this season’s American Romanian Festival.

Artists
Sujin Lim, violin
Marian Tănău, violin
Mike Chen, viola
Jeremy Crosmer, cello

Concert Program
Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
String Quartet No. 5
Allegro
Adagio molto
Scherzo: alla bulgarese
Andante
Finale: Allegro vivace
Samuel Barber (1910–1981)
String Quartet, Op. 11 in b minor (1936)
Molto allegro e appassionato
Molto adagio [attacca]
Molto allegro (come prima)
– INTERMISSION –
Philip Glass (b. 1937)
String Quartet No. 5 (1991)
I
II
III
IV
V

Sponsors

Music from Transylvania: Bartók and Terényi String Quartets / February 22, 2019
2019-02-22 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Detroit) | Schaver Recital Hall, Wayne State University, 480 W Hancock St, Detroit, MI, 48201, United States
Classical Music from Transylvania: Bartók & Terényi String Quartets
Chamber Concert
Friday, February 22, 2019, 11:30 a.m.
Wayne State University, Schaver Recital Hall, 480 W Hancock St, Detroit, MI 48201
FREE Admission
Join a string quartet of Detroit Symphony Orchestra musicians in this trip through the eerie and magical classical music of Transylvania in the 20th century, featuring Béla Bartók’s String Quartet No. 5 and Ede Terényi’s String Quartet No. 1.
Ede Terényi is a Romanian composer of Hungarian nationality. He was born in 1935 and educated in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and later in Darmstad. Composed in 1974, Terenyi’s Quartet No.1 continues the tradition of Hungarian national composers such as Bartók and Ligetti. The work is written in five movements, and it includes unusual techniques, eerie melodies, and imitations of natural sounds.
The String Quartet No. 5 of Béla Bartók was written in 1934. It has five movements and it is conceived in an arch form with a symmetry around the middle movement, which is a Scherzo written in the rhythmical style of Bulgarian folk music featuring a meter of 4+2+3. The quartet was written as a result of a commission by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge who was an American pianist and patron of the music. The work was premiered in Washington, DC, by the Kolisch Quartet in 1934.

Artists
Marian Tănău, violin
Sujin Lim, violin
Mike Chen, viola
Jeremy Crosmer, cello

Concert Program
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
String Quartet No. 5
Allegro
Adagio molto
Scherzo: alla bulgarese
Andante
Finale: Allegro vivace
– INTERMISSION –
Ede Terényi (b. 1935)
String Quartet No. 1
Adagio
Allegro moderato
Tranquillo
Vivace
Lento assai

Sponsors

American Gems & Romanian Cimbalom Music / Wayne State University, February 4, 2019
2019-02-04 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Detroit) | Schaver Recital Hall, Wayne State University, 480 W Hancock St, Detroit, MI, 48201, United States
American Gems & Romanian Cimbalom Music
Chamber Orchestra Concert
Monday, February 4, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Wayne State University, Schaver Recital Hall, 480 W Hancock St, Detroit, MI 48201
FREE Admission
Join us for a Chamber Orchestra Concert at Wayne State University, February 4, 2019, at the Shaver Music Recital Hall, to enjoy performances of American Gems and Romanian Cimbalom Music.
Brilliance and beauty abound as Romanian cimbalom virtuoso Alexandru Şura performs an arrangement of Paganini’s Caprice No. 24, as well as other Romanian favorites such as Enescu’s Rhapsody No. 1, the Barbu Lăutaru Suite, and Dinicu’s Hora staccato with the Wayne State University Orchestra, joined by faculty and musicians from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. The first part of the program features American gems by Copland, Moore, and Piston.

Artists
Kypros Markou, conductor
Alexandru Şura, cimbalom
Stephanie Shapiro, English Horn
Michael McGowan, trumpet
Wayne State University Orchestra With Faculty and Detroit Symphony Musicians

Concert Program
Walter Piston (1894–1976)
Serenata for Orchestra
Dorothy Rudd Moore (b. 1940)
Transcension
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Quiet City
Stephanie Shapiro, English Horn, Mike McGowan, trumpet
– INTERMISSION –
George Enescu (1881–1955) (arr. Şura)
Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840) (arr. Şura)
Caprice No. 24
anonymous (arr. Şura)
Folk suite Barbu Lăutarul
Grigoraș Dinicu (1889-1949) (arr. Şura)
Hora Staccato
Alexandru Şura, cimbalom

Sponsors

National Symphony of Romania / January 13, 2019
2019-01-13 18:30 (America/Detroit) | Wharton Center for Performing Arts, 750 E Shaw Ln, East Lansing, MI, 48824, United States
National Symphony of Romania
Sunday, January 13, 2019, 6:30 pm
Cobb Great Hall, Wharton Center for Performing Arts, Michigan State University
750 E Shaw Ln, East Lansing, MI 48824
This acclaimed ensemble of vibrant young musicians is known as Romania’s best and brightest orchestra. It has earned a reputation for performances full of virtuosity, joy and drama. Led by new star conductor Cristian Măcelaru, who is setting the music world on fire right now, the eclectic evening of popular works will feature Tchaikovsky Competition Gold Medal winner Andrei Ioniţă – whom The Times proclaimed “one of the most exciting cellists to have emerged for a decade”– in Tchaikovsky’s beloved “Rococo” Variations. In addition, the performance will include Enescu’s universally acclaimed encapsulation of gypsy music, Romanian Rhapsody No. 1; Strauss’ celebratory Suite from Der Rosenkavalier; and Ravel’s seductive Boléro.
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Reserved Seats

Artists
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF ROMANIA
CRISTIAN MĂCELARU, conductor
ANDREI IONIȚǍ, cello

Concert Program
ENESCU
Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A Major, Op. 11
TCHAIKOVKSY
Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33, for Cello and Orchestra
INTERMISSION
STRAUSS
Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59
RAVEL (1875-1937)
Boléro

Andrei Ioniţă, cello
Andrei Ioniţă won First Prize at the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition, and prizes at the ARD, Emanuel Feuermann and Aram Khachaturian competitions. In 2016 he was named a BBC New Generation Artist for the period 2016-2018.
Andrei has already performed with the Münchner Philharmoniker, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Mariinsky Orchestra, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra; working with conductors such as Valeriy Gergiev, Mikhail Pletnev and Nicholas Collon.
The 2017-18 season saw Andrei debut with The Hallé (with Cristian Macelaru), Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Karl-Heinz Steffens), BBC Philharmonic (Yan Pascal Tortelier and Omer Meir Wellber) and San Diego Symphony; and return to the Münchner Philharmoniker (Valeriy Gergiev) and MDR Sinfonieorchester.
In 2018-19 he returns to the BBC Philharmonic (with John Storgårds) and Hamburger Symphoniker (Ion Marin); makes debut appearences with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Yuri Temirkanov), Russian National Orchestra (Mikhail Pletnev) and Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra (Marcelo Lehninger); and tours the US with the Romanian Youth Orchestra (with Cristian Macelaru).
In recital he has recently performed at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, L’Auditori in Barcelona; as well as at the Kissinger Sommer, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schleswig-Holstein, Verbier and Cheltenham Festivaals. Forthcoming recitals include dates at the LAC Lugano, Zurich Tonhalle and Kings Place in London. He will also act as Artistic Director of the Alpenarte Festival in Schwarzenberg in October 2018.
Born in 1994 in Bucharest, Andrei began taking piano lessons at the age of five and received his first cello lesson three years later. He studied under Ani-Marie Paladi at the Iosif Sava Music School in Bucharest and Professor Jens Peter Maintz at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, where he currently resides.
Andrei is a scholarship recipient of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and performs on a Giovanni Battista Rogeri violoncello made by from Brescia in 1671 on loan from the foundation.

Cristian Măcelaru, conductor
Newly appointed Chief Conductor Designate of the WDR Sinfonieorchester, Cristian Măcelaru is one of the fast-rising stars of the conducting world. He takes on this new position at WDR, one of Europe’s leading orchestras, effective with the 2019/20 season.
Măcelaru is Music Director and Conductor of the internationally renowned Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. In August 2018, he leads his second season in premiere-filled programs of new works by an esteemed group of composers. Among the 2018 season’s highlights are 3 world premieres, a record-breaking 16 composers-in-residence, a stunning roster of international guest artists, and two special tributes to commemorate William Bolcom’s and John Corigliano’s respective 80th birthdays.
Cristian Măcelaru attracted international attention for the first time in 2012, when he stepped into the breach with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, deputizing for Pierre Boulez. In the same year, he received the “Solti Emerging Conductor Award” for young conductors, a prestigious honor only awarded once before in the Foundation’s history, followed in 2014 by the “Solti Conducting Award”. Since then, he has performed regularly at the podium of the best American orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony and National Symphony Orchestra. A particularly close collaboration connects him with the Philadelphia Orchestra: Since his subscription debut in 2013, he has been on the podium of this orchestra over 100 times and served there for three seasons as Conductor-in-Residence. Prior to that, he was their Associate Conductor for two seasons and previously Assistant Conductor for one season from September 2011. He continues a close relationship with the orchestra in leading them on annual subscription programs and other special concerts.
Cristian Măcelaru made his Carnegie Hall debut in February 2015 on a program with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Anne-Sophie Mutter. A keen opera conductor, in June 2015 he led the Cincinnati Opera in highly acclaimed performances of Il Trovatore. In 2010, he made his operatic debut with the Houston Grand Opera in Madama Butterfly and led the U.S. premiere of Colin Matthews’s Turning Point with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra as part of the Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival. In 2019, he returns to the Houston Grand Opera on a Kasper Holten production of Don Giovanni.
In Europe, Măcelaru has been in great demand as a guest conductor with many well-known orchestras and festivals, among others the Bayerischen Rundfunk Symphonieorchester, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Dresden Staatskapelle, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Hallé Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Danish National Symphony Orchestra.
The 2018/19 season sees Măcelaru make debuts with the Orchestre National de France, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony, San Francisco Symphony and São Paulo Symphony Orchestra (OSESP). He returns to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bayerischen Rundfunk Symphonieorchester, City of Birmingham Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Dresden Philharmonie, Hallé Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, Baltimore Symphony and Detroit Symphony. In January 2019, he brings the National Symphony Orchestra of Romania on their first-ever tour to the United States in commemoration of Romania’s centennial, culminating a 7-city tour at New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Center in performances with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. On the opera front, he leads a Kasper Holten production of Don Giovanniat the Houston Grand Opera.
Cristian Măcelaru was born in Timișoara, Romania and comes from a musical family. As the youngest of ten children, he received instrumental lessons at an early age — like all his siblings — in his case on the violin. His studies took him from Romania to the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, University of Miami in Florida and Rice University in Houston, where he studied conducting with Larry Rachleff. He then deepened his knowledge in Tanglewood Music Center and Aspen Music Festival in masterclasses with David Zinman, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Oliver Knussen and Stefan Asbury.
Măcelaru was the youngest concertmaster in the history of the Miami Symphony Orchestra and made his Carnegie Hall debut with that orchestra at the age of 19. He also played in the first violin section of the Houston Symphony for two seasons.
He resides in Philadelphia with his wife Cheryl and children Beniamin and Maria.

For more information on National Symphony Orchestra of Romania, visit http://www.orchestratineret.ro/en/index.html
Representation for National Symphony Orchestra of Romania: Primo Artists, New York, NY www.primoartists.com
For more information on Cristian Măcelaru, visit https://macelaru.com/
For more information on Andrei Ioniţǎ, visit https://mkiartists.com/artists/andrei-ionita/
Management for Andrei Ioniţǎ: MKI Artists, Burlington, VT www.mkiartists.com/

From Folk to Classic with Cimbalom & Violin / Steinway Piano Gallery, September 29, 2018
2018-09-29 15:00 (America/Detroit) | Steinway Piano Gallery, 2700 E. West Maple Rd., Commerce Charter Township, MI, 48390, United States
From Folk to Classic with Cimbalom & Violin
Chamber Music Concert
Saturday, September 29, 2018, 3 p.m.
2700 E West Maple Rd, Commerce Charter Twp, MI 48390
$25 Admission
This is a concert in celebration of the 100 year anniversary of Romania’s unification of the Romanian regions into a new republic.
The date of the unification was December 1st, 2018. The folk melodies from Romania are from different regions of the country. The anonymous composer songs have been passed from generation to generation through the memory of the performers. The cimbalom is an instrument present throughout the Balkans regions and predominant in Romanian folk music. We hope that this special and unique concert will present a kaleidoscope of Romania through the ancestral voices of the Romanian songs.

Artists
Daniel Lazăr, violin
Alexandru Şura, cimbalom
Robert Conway, piano

Concert Program
Toni Iordache (1942–1988)
“Balada haiduceasca”
anonymous
Variations on the song “Corn Harvest” (Variatiuni pe tema “La cules de cucuruz”)
anonymous
Suite from the Banat region (Suita Banat)
anonymous
Suite from the Maramureş/Oaşi region (Suita Maramureş/Oaşi)
anonymous
Suite from the Mureş/Alba region (Suita Mureş/Alba)
anonymous
“River Someş” (“Someş”)
anonymous
“Young Man’s Dance” (“Fecioresc”)
Daniel Lazăr, violin; Alexandru Şura, cimbalom

– INTERMISSION –

anonymous
Folk suite Barbu Lautarul (Suita Barbu Lautarul)
anonymous
Hungarian folk suite (Suita Ungureasca)
anonymous
Suite from the Oltenia Region (Suita Olteneasca)
Aram Khachaturian (1903–1978) arr: A. Sura
“Sabre Dance”
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)
“Flight of the Bumblebee”
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
Introduction and Rondo capriccioso
Vittorio Monti (1868–1922)
Czardas (Csárdás)
Alexandru Şura, cimbalom; Robert Conway, piano

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Ancestral Voices: Music for Violin & Cimbalom / Wayne State University, September 28, 2018
2018-09-28 11:30 - 12:20 (America/Detroit) | Schaver Recital Hall, Wayne State University, 480 W Hancock St, Detroit, MI, 48201, United States
Ancestral Voices: Music for Violin & Cimbalom
Chamber Music Concert
Friday, September 28, 2018, 11:30 a.m.
Wayne State University, Schaver Recital Hall, 480 W Hancock St, Detroit, MI 48201
Free Admission
This is a concert in celebration of the 100-year anniversary of Romania’s unification of the Romanian regions into a new republic.
The date of the unification was December 1, 1918. The Romanian folk melodies are from different regions of the country, and the anonymous composer songs have been passed from generation to generation through the memory of the performers. Toni Iordache was a Romani-Romanian lăutar and one of the most famous cimbalom (Romanian: ţambal) players in the world. He was nicknamed the “God of the Cimbalom” and the “Paganini of the Cimbalom.” We hope that this special and unique concert will present a kaleidoscope of Romania through the ancestral voices of the Romanian songs.

Artists
Daniel Lazăr, violin
Alexandru Şura, cimbalom

Concert Program
Toni Iordache (1942-1988)
“Balada haiduceasca”
anonymous
Variations on the song “Corn Harvest”
(Variatiuni pe tema “La cules de cucuruz”)

anonymous
Folk suite Barbu Lautarul (Suita Barbu Lautarul)
Alexandru Şura, cimbalom
anonymous
Suite from the Banat region (Suita Banat)
anonymous
Suite from the Maramureş/Oaşi region (Suita Maramureş/Oaşi)
anonymous
Suite from the Mureş/Alba region (Suita Mureş/Alba)
anonymous
“River Someş” (“Someş”)
anonymous
“Young Man’s Dance” (“Fecioresc”)
Daniel Lazăr, violin; Alexandru Şura, cimbalom

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Passionate Enescu: Chamber Concert at Steinway Piano Gallery, March 17, 2018
2018-03-17 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Detroit) | Steinway Piano Gallery, 2700 E. West Maple Rd., Commerce Charter Township, MI, 48390, United States
Passionate Enescu
Chamber Music Concert
Saturday, March 17, 2018, 3 p.m.
Steinway Piano Gallery Detroit
2700 E West Maple Rd
Commerce Charter Twp, MI 48390
$20 Admission / buy tickets
Join us March 17, 2018 at Steinway Piano Gallery for the chamber music concert “Passionate Enescu.” Composed when George Enescu was 19 the Octet for Strings in C major, Op. 7, is regarded as amongst the most notable successors to Felix Mendelssohn’s celebrated Octet. Hear this and a Piano Quintet from his youth, live with Detroit Symphony Musicians at Steinway Piano Gallery Detroit. Reserve tickets online today.

Artists
Marian Tănău, violin
Heidi Han, violin
Sheryl Hwangbo, violin
Sujin Lim, violin
William Haapanemi, viola
Hang Su, viola
David LeDoux, cello
Jeremy Crosmer, cello
Zhihua Tang, piano

Concert Program
George Enescu (1881–1955)
Piano Quintet in D Major
Allegro moderato
Scherzo vivace
Andante
Allegro con spirito
Sheryl Hwangbo, violin; Heidi Han, violin; Hang Su, viola; David LeDoux, cello; Zhihua Tang, piano
– INTERMISSION –
George Enescu (1881–1955)
Octet for Strings, Op. 7 (1897)
Très modéré
Très fougueux
Lentement
Mouvement de valse ben rythmée

This concert is given in preparation for the Romanian concerts as part of this 2018 Season’s American Romanian Festival.

Romanian Culinary Evening Dinner & Music / Schoolcraft College, December 8, 2017
2017-12-08 18:00 - 22:30 (America/Detroit) | VisTaTech, Schoolcraft College, 18600 Haggerty Rd, Livonia, MI, 48152, United States
Romanian Culinary Evening Dinner & Music
Friday, December 8, 2017
6:00 p.m. Romanian Culinary Evening Dinner
VisTaTech Presentation Room, Schoolcraft College, 18600 Haggerty, Livonia, MI
$120 Admission
The 2017 American Romanian Festival invites you to join us December 8, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. for a delightful evening of Romanian food prepared by the Master Chefs at Schoolcraft College. Romanian folk music virtuosos violinist Daniel Lazar and cimbalom player Alexandru Şura will perform a short program of Romanian folk tunes from various regions of the country. Join us on this virtual trip to Romania through food and music!

Artists
Daniel Lazar, violin
Alexandru Şura, cimbalom

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Celebrating Dinu Lipatti & Romania: Chamber Concert at Wayne State University, December 1, 2017
2017-12-01 11:30 - 13:30 (America/Detroit) | Schaver Recital Hall, Wayne State University, 480 W Hancock St, Detroit, MI, 48201, United States
Celebrating Dinu Lipatti & Romania
Chamber Music Concert
Friday, December 1, 2017, 11:30 a.m.
Wayne State University, Schaver Recital Hall
480 W Hancock St, Detroit, MI 48201
Free Admission
Help the 2017 American Romanian Festival celebrate December 1, 2017 at Wayne State University with the chamber music concert “Celebrating Dinu Lipatti & Romania.”

Artists
Marian Tănău, violin
David LeDoux, cello
Robert Conway, piano

Concert Program
Lipatti
Sonatina for the Left Hand
George Enescu (1881–1955)
Piano Trio in g minor
I. Allegro molto vivace
II. Allegretto grazioso
III. Andante
IV. Presto

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By the Rails: Film Screening at UMMA, November 12, 2017
2017-11-12 17:15 - 19:00 (America/Detroit) | Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), 525 South State Street, Ann Arbor, 48109, United States
By the Rails
8th Romanian Film Series: Film Screening
Sunday, November 12, 2017, 5:15 p.m.
Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
525 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Free Admission

Film Screening
By the Rails
Dincolo de calea ferata, 2016; Cătălin Mitulescu, Drama, English Subtitles, 88 minutes
Radu has come back from Italy after a year and finds his wife totally changed. They spend the night trying to rediscover themselves. The distance has created distrust and confusion between them, but Radu hopes for a new beginning.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE_brOVaWH8
Q & A to follow.

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Everybody in Our Family: Film Screening at UMMA, November 12, 2017
2017-11-12 15:30 - 17:00 (America/Detroit) | Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), 525 South State Street, Ann Arbor, 48109, United States
Everybody in Our Family
8th Romanian Film Series: Film Screening
Sunday, November 12, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
525 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Free Admission

Film Screening
Everybody in Our Family
Toata lumea din familia noastra, 2012, Radu Jude; Comedy, English Subtitles, 107 minutes
Marius, a divorced father, is frustrated that his five-year-old daughter Sofia lives with her mother. When he wants to take his daughter with him on holiday, he is told that she is ill. Suspecting a lie, he insists to take her with him, leading to a series of comic mishaps, lies, police interventions, all to the tune of children’s songs. With famed Romanian actress Stela Popescu.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StNH7O2IYm8
Q & A to follow.

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The Treasure: Film Screening at UMMA, November 11, 2017
2017-11-11 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Detroit) | Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), 525 South State Street, Ann Arbor, 48109, United States
The Treasure
8th Romanian Film Series: Film Screening
Saturday, November 11, 2017, 5:30 p.m.
Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
525 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Free Admission

Film Screening
The Treasure
Comoara, 2015, Corneliu Porumboiu, Drama, English Subtitles, 89 minutes
Costi leads a peaceful life until one day when his neighbor pays him an unexpected visit and shares with him that his grandparent’s garden has a buried treasure. He offers Costi half of what they will find, pending that Costi will rent a metal detector. Costi eventually accepts the proposal.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f1pZHTh6K0
Q & A to follow.

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Two Lottery Tickets: Film Screening at UMMA, November 11, 2017
2017-11-11 15:30 - 17:00 (America/Detroit) | Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), 525 South State Street, Ann Arbor, 48109, United States
Two Lottery Tickets
8th Romanian Film Series: Film Screening
Saturday, November 11, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
525 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Free Admission

Film Screening
Two Lottery Tickets
Două Lozuri, 2016; Paul Negoescu, Comedy, English Subtitles, 86 minutes
Three men from a provincial town are in urgent need of money and decide to buy a lottery ticket. They win the lottery but soon after, their ticket gets stolen.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6GvCvAS22Q
Q & A to follow.

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Opposites: Chamber Concert at Kerrytown Concert House, November 5, 2017
2017-11-05 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Detroit) | Kerrytown Concert House, 415 N 4th Ave, Ann Arbor, MI, 48104, United States
Opposites
Chamber Music Concert
Sunday, November 5, 2017, 7 p.m.
Kerrytown Concert House
415 N. 4th Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Admission:$15-$30; Students: $5
The 2017 American Romanian Festival invites you to Kerrytown Concert House November 5, 2017 to experience the chamber music concert “Opposites,” featuring selections by Enescu and Reich.

Artists
Sheryl Hwangbo, violin
Marian Tănău, violin
Hang Su, viola
David LeDoux, cello
Zhihua Tang, piano

Concert Program
George Enescu (1881–1955)
Piano Quintet in D Major
I. Allegro moderato
II. Scherzo vivace
III. Andante
IV. Allegro con spirito
Steve Reich (b 1936)
Different Trains for String Quartet and Pre-Recorded Performance Tape
I. America – Before the War
II. Europe – During the War
III. After the War
(Played without pause)

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From the Countryside: Chamber Orchestra Concert at Wayne State University, October 23, 2017
2017-10-23 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Detroit) | Schaver Recital Hall, Wayne State University, 480 W Hancock St, Detroit, MI, 48201, United States
From the Countryside
Chamber Orchestra Concert
Monday, October 23, 2017, 7:30 p.m.
Wayne State University, Schaver Recital Hall
480 W Hancock St, Detroit, MI 48201
Free Admission
Join us for “From the Countryside,” a Chamber Orchestra Concert at Schaver Recital Hall, Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.

Artists
Kypros Markou, conductor
Robert Conway, piano
Kazimierz Brzozowski, piano
Wayne State University Orchestra

Wayne State University Orchestra

VIOLIN I
Hai Xin Wu*
Chance McDermott
Sean O’Connell
Amanda Baune
Elise Komer
Larissa Verley
VIOLIN II
Dr. Laura Roelofs*
Raymond Li
Isaac Weiss
Phillip Sylvester
Jocelyn Palmer

VIOLA
John Madison*
Madison Hilborn
Gabriel Paese
Gabriel Bray
CELLO
Judith Vander Weg*
Christian Sands
Gavin Langley
BASS
Larry Hutchinson*
Mitchell Anderson

FLUTE
Catherine Butler
CLARINET
Laurence Liberson+
BASSOON
Isaac Bartol
* Wayne State University faculty
+ Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Concert Program
Cornel Ţăranu (b. 1934)
Sequences
Dinu Lipatti (1917–1950)
Symphonie concertante, Op. 5
I. Molto maestoso
II. Molto adagio
III. Allegro con spirito
Cindy McTee (b. 1953)
Adagio
Aaron Copland (1900–1990)
Appalachian Spring
I. Very slowly
II. Fast/Allegro
III. Moderate/Moderato
IV. Quite fast
V. Still faster/Subito Allegro
VI. Very slowly (as at first)
VII. Calm and flowing/Doppio Movimento
VIII. Moderate. Coda/Moderato – Coda

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Celebrating 100 years of Lipatti! Recital Concert at Steinway Piano Gallery, October 14, 2017
2017-10-14 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Detroit) | MI
Celebrating 100 years of Lipatti! Valentin Mihai Bogdan Recital Program
Recital Concert
Saturday, October 14, 2017, 3 p.m.
Steinway Piano Gallery
2700 E West Maple Rd., Commerce Charter Twp, MI 48390

Admission $20
The 2017 American Romanian Festival is delighted to host visiting artist Valentine Bogdan in a recital concert “Celebrating 100 years of Lipatti!” Join us for an afternoon of music at Steinway Piano Gallery.

Artists
Valentin Mihai Bogdan, piano

Concert Program
Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Impromptu No. 3 in G-flat Major, D 899
Dinu Lipatti (1917–1950)
Fantasie, Op. 8
(selected movements)
George Enescu (1881–1955)
Romanian Rhapsody, Op. 11, No. 1
(concert transcriptions for solo piano by the composer)
Tudor Ciortea (1903–1982)
Suite for the Piano
I. Colind (Carol)
II. Joc (Dance)
III. Cantec (Song)
IV. Joc (Dance)
V. Bocet (Funeral Song)
VI. Joc (Dance)
Valentin Mihai Bogdan (b. 1981)
Etudes for Solo Piano
I. Introduction
II. Basso Ostinato
III. Sets
IV. Aug(Mented)
Paul Constantinescu (1909–1963)
Trei Piese Pentru Pian
(Three Pieces for the Piano)
I. Joc (Dance)
II. Cantec (Song)
III. Dans din Dobrogea – Toccata (Dobrogean Dance)

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Opposites: Chamber Concert at Wayne State University, October 13, 2017
2017-10-13 11:30 - 13:30 (America/Detroit) | Schaver Recital Hall, Wayne State University, 480 W Hancock St, Detroit, MI, 48201, United States
Opposites
Chamber Music Concert
Friday, October 13, 2017, 11:30 a.m.
Schaver Recital Hall, Wayne State University
480 W Hancock St, Detroit, MI 48201

Free Admission
The 2017 American Romanian Festival begins October 13, 2017 at Wayne State University. Join us for the chamber music concert “Opposites,” featuring selections by Enescu and Reich.

Artists
Sheryl Hwangbo, violin
Marian Tănău, violin
Hang Su, viola
David LeDoux, cello
Zhihua Tang, piano

Concert Program
George Enescu (1881–1955)
Piano Quintet in D Major
I. Allegro moderato
II. Scherzo vivace
III. Andante
IV. Allegro con spirito
Steve Reich (b 1936)
Different Trains for String Quartet and Pre-Recorded Performance Tape
I. America – Before the War
II. Europe – During the War
III. After the War
(Played without pause)

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Why Me?: Film Screening & Talk at UMMA with Director Tudor Giurgiu, November 13, 2016
2016-11-13 15:30 - 19:00 (America/Detroit) | Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), 525 South State Street, Ann Arbor, 48109, United States
Why Me?
7th Annual Romanian Film Series: Film Screening & Talk
Sunday, November 13, 2016, 3:30–7:00 p.m.
Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Free Admission

Tudor Giurgiu introduces Why Me?, 3:30–3:45pm
About Director Tudor Giurgiu
Born in 1972 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Tudor Giurgiu has worked in cinema for over twenty years as a producer, director, and writer, and has over 50 credits to his name, including documentaries, shorts, music videos, and feature films. He is the owner of Librafilm, an independent production company, as well as the founder and festival director of Romania’s most prestigious film festival, the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF). Between 2005 and 2007 Tudor Giurgiu was President of the Romanian National Television, TVR. About his second feature film, Why Me? (2015), he has said, “It is the most important project I worked on. I would like for it to remain known as a radiography of the Romanian society of the 2000s.”

Film Screening, 3:45 p.m.
Why me?
De ce eu?, 2015; Tudor Giurgiu, Drama, English Subtitles, 125 min
Cristian, a young idealistic prosecutor whose career is on the rise, tries to crack a case against a senior colleague accused of corruption. The dilemma of choosing between his career and the truth weighs heavily on his shoulders. Looking further to solve the case, he enters a danger zone paved with unexpected and painful revelations.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq06v2PGKuo

Discussion with Tudor Giurgiu, 6:00–7:00 p.m.
This screening features a talk with Director Tudor Giurgiu.

2016 American Romanian Festival
The American Romanian Festival Inc. is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to foster mutual understanding and promote American and Eastern European music and culture. A specific focus of the festival is to encourage cultural awareness and understanding between people of culture, musicians, and artists of the United States and Romania. The festival organizes educational, cultural, and artistic events which take place in Romania and the USA. Founded in 2005, the organization supports cultural exchanges with Americans participating in events in Romania and Romanians participating in events in the USA.
The events planned by the American Romanian Festival Inc. this season will commence with a Student Composers Seminar on September 28 and a chamber music concert on September 30 at Wayne State University, Department of Music in Detroit. This year’s festival guest is Cornel Ţăranu who will hold workshops, lectures, and master classes as well as conduct one of his works. The festival will continue with three more chamber music concerts (October 2, October 6, and October 23) and the 7th Annual Romanian Film Series at the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

7th Annual Romanian Film Series
The American Romanian Festival Film Series is celebrated with a curated films screenings and lectures that explore culture through rich cinematic experiences. The 2016 American Romanian Festival marks the Festival’s 11th Year Anniversary and 7th Annual Romanian Film Series. Help celebrate the occasion by joining us at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, November 6, 2016 and November 13, 2016. Admission tickets may be reserved at the door/screening.

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The Miracle of Tekir: Film Screening at UMMA, November 6, 2016
2016-11-06 17:30 - 19:30 (America/Detroit) | Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), 525 South State Street, Ann Arbor, 48109, United States
The Miracle of Tekir
7th Annual Romanian Film Series: Film Screening
Sunday, November 6, 2016, 5:30 p.m.
Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Free Admission

Film Screening
The Miracle of Tekir
Miracolul din Tekir, 2015, Ruxandra Zenide, Drama, English Subtitles, 90 min
The film tells, like a fable, the struggle of a young woman to protect her unborn child which she believes is a miracle, an immaculate conception.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd8fGetLsWw

2016 American Romanian Festival
The American Romanian Festival Inc. is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to foster mutual understanding and promote American and Eastern European music and culture. A specific focus of the festival is to encourage cultural awareness and understanding between people of culture, musicians, and artists of the United States and Romania. The festival organizes educational, cultural, and artistic events which take place in Romania and the USA. Founded in 2005, the organization supports cultural exchanges with Americans participating in events in Romania and Romanians participating in events in the USA.
The events planned by the American Romanian Festival Inc. this season will commence with a Student Composers Seminar on September 28 and a chamber music concert on September 30 at Wayne State University, Department of Music in Detroit. This year’s festival guest is Cornel Ţăranu who will hold workshops, lectures, and master classes as well as conduct one of his works. The festival will continue with three more chamber music concerts (October 2, October 6, and October 23) and the 7th Annual Romanian Film Series at the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

7th Annual Romanian Film Series
The American Romanian Festival Film Series is celebrated with a curated films screenings and lectures that explore culture through rich cinematic experiences. The 2016 American Romanian Festival marks the Festival’s 11th Year Anniversary and 7th Annual Romanian Film Series. Help celebrate the occasion by joining us at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, November 6, 2016 and November 13, 2016. Admission tickets may be reserved at the door/screening.

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Then I Sentenced Them All to Death: Film Screening at UMMA, November 6, 2016
2016-11-06 15:30 - 17:00 (America/Detroit) | Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), 525 South State Street, Ann Arbor, 48109, United States
Then I Sentenced Them All to Death
7th Annual Romanian Film Series: Film Screening
Sunday, November 6, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Free Admission

Film Screening
Then I Sentenced Them All to Death
Moartea lui Ipu, 1972; Sergiu Nicolaescu, Drama, English Subtitles, 96 min
During World War II, just before the events of August 23rd 1944, a German soldier is found murdered in a Romanian village. The dead soldier’s superior threatens the villagers that unless the perpetrator is handed over by the following morning they will all face reprisals.

2016 American Romanian Festival
The American Romanian Festival Inc. is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to foster mutual understanding and promote American and Eastern European music and culture. A specific focus of the festival is to encourage cultural awareness and understanding between people of culture, musicians, and artists of the United States and Romania. The festival organizes educational, cultural, and artistic events which take place in Romania and the USA. Founded in 2005, the organization supports cultural exchanges with Americans participating in events in Romania and Romanians participating in events in the USA.
The events planned by the American Romanian Festival Inc. this season will commence with a Student Composers Seminar on September 28 and a chamber music concert on September 30 at Wayne State University, Department of Music in Detroit. This year’s festival guest is Cornel Ţăranu who will hold workshops, lectures, and master classes as well as conduct one of his works. The festival will continue with three more chamber music concerts (October 2, October 6, and October 23) and the 7th Annual Romanian Film Series at the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

7th Annual Romanian Film Series
The American Romanian Festival Film Series is celebrated with a curated films screenings and lectures that explore culture through rich cinematic experiences. The 2016 American Romanian Festival marks the Festival’s 11th Year Anniversary and 7th Annual Romanian Film Series. Help celebrate the occasion by joining us at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, November 6, 2016 and November 13, 2016. Admission tickets may be reserved at the door/screening.

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The French Connection with Fusion Trio, Chamber Concert at Wayne State University, October 23, 2016
2016-10-23 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Detroit) | Schaver Recital Hall, Wayne State University, 480 W Hancock St, Detroit, MI, 48201, United States
The French Connection with Fusion Trio
Chamber Music Concert
Sunday, October 23, 2016, 3 p.m.
Schaver Recital Hall, Wayne State University, 480 W Hancock St, Detroit, MI 48201

In collaboration with Friends of Absolute Music
Free Admission
The American Romanian Festival Inc. is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to foster mutual understanding and promote American and Eastern European music and culture. A specific focus of the festival is to encourage cultural awareness and understanding between people of culture, musicians, and artists of the United States and Romania. The festival organizes educational, cultural, and artistic events which take place in Romania and the USA. Founded in 2005, the organization supports cultural exchanges with Americans participating in events in Romania and Romanians participating in events in the USA.
The events planned by the American Romanian Festival Inc. this season will commence with a Student Composers Seminar on September 28 and a chamber music concert on September 30 at Wayne State University, Department of Music in Detroit. This year’s festival guest is Cornel Ţăranu who will hold workshops, lectures, and master classes as well as conduct one of his works. The festival will continue with three more chamber music concerts (October 2, October 6, and October 23) and the 7th Annual Romanian Film Series at the University of Michigan Museum of Art on November 6 and November 13.

Artists
Marian Tănău, violin
David LeDoux, cello
Rebecca Mayer, piano

Concert Program
Enescu and Ravel Piano Trios

Sponsors
