Sharp Festival
Sharp Festival opens the 2022-2023 chamber season of the "George Enescu" Bucharest Philharmonic from September 29 to October 2, 2022.
Under the artistic directorship marked by the creative effervescence of pianist Daniel Ciobanu, artist-in-residence of the "George Enescu" Philharmonic and winner of the 2nd Prize and the Audience Prize at the Arthur Rubinstein Competition - Tel Aviv 2017, Sharp Festival brings together four recitals under its umbrella exceptional whose protagonists are no less than 12 young artists from 6 countries. Classical music lovers will have a satisfying treat both from the perspective of the guest artists and the concert program that gracefully traverses the history of music from Mozart, Shostakovich to jazz-fusion seasoned with contemporary dance and traditional instruments.
Festival program:
On Thursday, September 29, 2022, from 8 p.m., Daniel Ciobanu will take the stage with Simon Trpčeski, the iconic pianist from North Macedonia, in a real duel between friends. The two performers will appear sometimes one by one, sometimes together, sitting at one piano or two, to cross the history of music through the universe of dance, in the music of Ravel, Grieg, Mozart, Schubert and Bužarovski.
On Friday, September 30, 2022, from the same time, 20.00, the piano, himself the main actor of the Sharp Festival, appears in the modern and worldly clothes of jazz, tailored by the Israeli Guy Mintus, a formidable young musician, winner of the Audience Award at the famous Festival de Jazz from Montreux, virtuoso passionate about world music, capable of mastering any style and combining them into new and original sounds. In the captivating classic-jazz fusion that Guy Mintus proposes to the Bucharest public, three prominent Romanian artists will appear, in as many creative experiments: jazz singer Irina Sârbu, dancer Andreea Vălean, traditional instrumentalist Andrei Maxim and percussionist Bogdan Ciobanu.
On Saturday, October 1, 2022, from 8 p.m., Anna Tifu, winner of the 2007 "George Enescu" International Competition, returns to Bucharest in a gala recital, together with pianist Giuseppe Andaloro. The two Italian musicians have chosen a program for all tastes, from the serious music of the Sonata by Franck to the hits Tzigane by Ravel, the Poem by Chausson and the Fantasia Carmen by Sarasate, so many examples of the brilliance of the violin, the queen of instruments.
Sharp Festival will end on Sunday, October 2, 2022, at 8 p.m., in the Great Hall of the Romanian Athenaeum, with a recital that will bring together the forces of three extraordinary instrumentalists: Russian cellist Anastasia Kobekina, winner of the 2nd Prize at the International Competition " George Enescu" 2016 and the Bronze Medal at the Tchaikovsky Competition 2019, the German violinist Linus Roth, who plays a Stradivarius violin, and the Romanian pianist Daniel Ciobanu. Two trios like two life stories, passionate and dramatic, signed by two legendary Russian composers, Arenski and Shostakovich, will represent the culmination of a musical marathon in which the public is invited to participate with the same energy with which the musicians will delight them.
The festival program is completed by the SharpMinds Workshop, a masterclass-workshop that invites students, pupils and curious minds on Friday, September 30 and Saturday, October 1, starting at 10:00 a.m., in the Official Hall of the Romanian University. It will be supported by Graeme McNaught, Professor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and William Fong, Professor at the Royal Academy of London.
Tickets can be purchasedonline, as well as from the Ticket Office of the Romanian Athenaeum, and more details about the festival can be obtained from its website:www.sharpfest.com
The festival is organized by the ciobART Association in partnership with the "George Enescu" Philharmonic and is supported by the "Dimitrie Gusti" National Village Museum.
