Over 35 international artists expected at SoNoRo Festival

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Over 35 internationally renowned artists will take part in the ninth edition of SoNoRo International Chamber Music Festival, due between October 31-November 17 in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca and Iasi. Cotroceni Palace will host the official opening on October 31, starting 7 p.m. This year festival will run under “Bridges” slogan, inspired by one of the most famous bridges in the world, and is covering a wide repertoire, ranging from Mozart, Bartholdy, Brahms chords, to John cage’s experimental music, to Monterverdi, da Venosa, Messiaen, ?ostakovici or Schubert compositions.

Jazz music inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky’s movies and performed by Tarkovsky Quartet and Andrei Tarkovsky jr. will join the program. Roby Lakatos’ gipsy music “Over the Danube” will also come along, promising a fabulous passionate music evening at Bragadiru Palace. Violinists Boris Brovtsyn, Vilde Frang, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Hugo Ticciati and Daniel Rowland, violists Vladimir Mendelssohn and Razvan Popovici, cellists Anja Lechner, Valentin R?du?iu and Nicolas Altstaedt, pianists François Couturier and Henri Sigfridsson, along with clarinetist Thorsten Johanns, bassoon player Bram van Sambeek and Schumann Quartet are only some of the musicians performing at SoNoRo this year.

The famous chamber music festival will also bring French director Bruno Monsaingeon to speak about the world music in his documentaries to the Romanian public. Cluj-Napoca SoNoro concerts are to be dubbed by a sale exhibition of unique ceramics handicrafts especially made with SoNoRo brand.

As a premiere this year, the festival will also launch abroad, through a concert performed by mezzo-soprano Ruxandra Donose and Raro ensemble at Vienna Konzerthaus on October 22.

The complete program is available on www.sonoro.ro , while tickets and subscriptions are available on www.eventim.ro and in Eventim network- Germanos, Orange, Vodafone and Domo stores, Carturesti and Humanitas bookshops.

Set up in 2006, SoNoRo performed in famous halls in the world, such as Wigmore Hall in London, Konzerthaus in Wien, YMCA in Jerusalem and Carnegie Hall in New York, within partnerships with other festivals in Italy, Germany, UK, Israel, Latvia, Israel and Japan. The festival is also running in Arezzo, Italy since 2011 and in Sofia, Bulgaria since last year.

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