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Monday - Friday: 10:00 - 20:00
George Enescu International Festival and Competition
The biannual festival dedicated to the great Roumanian composer Enescu, presents the classical and modern repertoire with all the different genres of symphonic and chamber music with a large international programme.
This edition of the festival will be held in September 2011.
Ce festival est un membre de L'EFA depuis 1997.
Programme de Festival
Each EFA member manages its own Calendar. In case there is no programme availabable for this year, please visit the festival's own website.
L'Histoire du festival
Edition 2011 organised under the high patronage of the President of Romania
Artistic Director : Ioan Holender
Producer : the Romanian Ministry of Culture
Organiser : ARTEXIM
Cultural exchange, excellence and new discoveries rank among the hallmarks of this September’s 20th ‘George Enescu’ Festival. The biennial event offers a programme as rich and diverse as any on the international festival circuit, its artistic scope widened this year thanks to heavyweight government investment and distinctive repertoire choices. Romania’s resurgent capital will host many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors during its late summer festival time. It’s also set to stage performances of works by great names in Romanian music and outstanding talents among the nation’s emerging cohort of composers. In short, the Festival packs the programme punch and artistic armoury required to attract worldwide attention.
Ioan Hollender, the Festival’s Honorary President and Artistic Director, has fashioned a blend of concerts that projects the event’s core values while charting the direction of its future. The work of the greatest of all Romanian composers, George Enescu, remains central to the programme, as it has since the Festival’s foundation in 1958. Enescu’s legacy and lasting influence on Romanian music surfaces throughout the programme, in the form of his compositions and reflected in works by artists born since his death in 1955, Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea, Carmen Cârneci and Iancu Dumitrescu not least among them. Past, present and future coalesce in the Festival’s selection of repertoire.
“Enescu’s music remains central to our programme,” observes the Festival’s Manager, Mihai Constantinescu. “We’re delighted that so many international artists and ensembles have agreed to perform the composer’s work this year. Promoting Enescu gives focus to the Festival and reminds the world of the creative power of this great Romanian musician. Every government since we reformed the event in 1998 has recognised that Enescu and the Festival are of great value in projecting this country’s image abroad. We’re doing this in partnership with musicians from many different countries in order to tell the story of Romanian art and culture, which is a rich and evolving tale.”The ‘George Enescu’ Festival, continues Constantinescu, is determined to make lasting contributions to the development of classical music in Romania. He points to the 2011 edition’s new ‘Music of the 21st Century’ series, which comprises 14 concerts of everything from scores for chamber choir and string quartet to compositions for live instruments and electronic sounds. Eye-catching series programmes include a recital of new pieces from Iancu Dumitrescu’s Hyperion Ensemble (complete with music by Ana-Maria Avram and Dumitrescu himself) and performances of Guillaume Connesson’s Concerto for cello and orchestra and Cornel Ţăranu’s Remembranza (In memoriam George Enescu). In addition to its 21st-century strand, the Festival intends to unite young Romanian composers with their international colleagues for a day of workshops.“
This year’s Festival offers an unprecedented exchange of ideas between Romanian composers and musicians and artists from abroad,” notes Mihai Constantinescu. “We have a very strong programme, which includes many fascinating contemporary works this year. This is a significant feature of what we are doing to develop our audience for new and existing compositions. The exciting thing is that foreign as well as Romanian artists are bringing their perspectives and ideas to new Romanian music. The Festival will also explore symphonic music from countries not usually associated with it, such as Tunisia, India, Japan and Palestine, in our new ‘World Music’ series.
