SoNoRo Interferences 2019 SoNoRo Fellows

10.05.2019

The 2019 SoNoRo Interferences SoNoRo Fellows meet at the Port Cultural Cetate

The young musicians selected in the SoNoRo Interferences 2019 program wrap up their week of study and mentorship with a concert at the Portul Cultural Cetate on Saturday, April 27, at 19:00. Fellows will perform with their teachers masterpieces by Sergei Rachmaninov, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Antonin Dvorak, Dmitri Shostakovich, Max Bruch, Gabriel Fauré and Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.

The concert on April 27 at the Portul Cultural Cetate is free admission and comes as a culmination of the week-long April 21 - 28 musical workshop. During this time, the young scholars will study alongside four internationally experienced musicians: pianist and SoNoRo Festival Artistic Director Diana Ketler, professor at the Royal Academy of Music; violinist Christoph Wyneken, professor at the Freiburg Academy of Music; violist Răzvan Popovici, SoNoRo Festival Executive Director and member of the Raro Ensemble; and cellist Marcin Sieniawski, professor at the Imola Academy of Music in Italy.

"The aim of the SoNoRo Interferences study program is to provide young virtuosos with a suitable environment for study and accumulation. From year to year, the level of scholarship recipients is getting higher and higher, with each edition we have the pleasant surprise to discover impressive young people, whom we wish to help fulfill their potential and have a consistent development," says Răzvan Popovici, the initiator of SoNoRo Interferences.

Musicians selected in the 2019 SoNoRo Interferences 2019 SoNoRo Interferences scholarship program started the series of three musical workshops in Montepulciano, Italy. At the end of the week-long workshop on March 30, the fellows had the opportunity to take the first step in their international careers with a concert with their masters on the stage of the Ricci Palace.

The next and final series of young musicians selected in this year's scholarship program will participate in a workshop in Traunstein, Germany, from August 25 to September 1, 2019. At the end of the study and workshop period, the scholars, accompanied by their mentors, will perform a concert for German audiences.

The SoNoRo Interferences study program at the Cetate Cultural Harbour is supported by CEZ Romania, a SoNoRo partner for 11 years.

"We are happy to offer young people with potential from Romania the opportunity to develop their passion for music, to study alongside European artists and teachers and to stand out on the national and international stages. We continue to promote local values at the highest level and to support SoNoRo Interferences scholars on their way to a successful career", said Ondřej Šafář, CEO CEZ Romania

For thirteen years, SoNoRo Interferences has been aiming to train and promote tomorrow's elite of musicians, as well as to give Romanian and international audiences the chance to listen to and encourage young instrumentalists at free concerts held at the end of the workshops. The results of the educational program dedicated to young Romanian musicians show that over 300 young musicians have benefited from the Interferențe scholarships over the years.

The SoNoRo Interferențe scholarship is addressed to young people between 14 and 31 years of age and consists of free tuition (chamber music + solo instrument: piano, violin, viola and cello), free transportation from Bucharest to the workshop venue, free accommodation and meals during the program.

The SoNoRo Interferences program is supported by CEZ Romania and UniCredit Bank.

The partners of SoNoRo Interferences are Portul Cultural Cetate, Palazzo Ricci National University of Music, Chiemgauer Musikfruhling Festival, Wolfgang Sawallisch Foundation and Ensemble Raro.

Admission to the concerts is free. For more information please visit:

www.interferente.sonoro.ro.

About SoNoRo Intereferences

SoNoRo-Interferențe was born in Romania in 2007 and has since expanded to other European countries, including Italy (Arezzo and Montepulciano), Ukraine (Kiev) and Germany (Bad Endorf, Neuwied and Traunstein). Among the venues chosen in Romania for the SoNoRoRo-Interferences workshops were the Cetate Cultural Port, the National Bank's residence in Păltiniș and the Cantacuzino Palace in Bușteni.

The SoNoRo Interferences program was initiated with the long-term aim of creating a musical elite to continue the SoNoRo Festival's efforts to put Romania at the forefront of European music. Many of the scholarship winners have achieved outstanding results and are currently studying at prestigious music institutions in London, Berlin, Vienna, Zurich, Hamburg, Vienna, Zurich, Bucharest and Berlin. Some of them have taken part in major competitions around the world and have placed at the top. The most recent achievement of one of the SoNoRo Interferences scholars is that of Andrei Ioniță who won the first prize in the cello section of the P.I.Tchaikovsky Competition in Russia.

Main sponsor of SoNoRo Interferences: CEZ Romania.

Jamsession Inspirer: UniCredit Bank

Partners: the "Mircea Dinescu" Poetry Foundation, the Palazzo Ricci National University of Music, the Chiemgauer Musikfruhling Festival, the Wolfgang Sawallisch Foundation and Ensemble Raro.

For more information:

Mihaela Tăut

Phone: +40742 756 756 930

E-mail: mihaela.taut@sonoro.ro