The organizers of the SoNoRo International Chamber Music Festival 2010 are inviting the Romanian musicians, with ages between 13 and 28, to the selections for SoNoRo – Interferences 2010.

The SoNoRo – Interferences auditions will take place in February , in Bucharest and Cluj according to the following program.

SoNoRo-Interferences, the educational program within the SoNoRo International Chamber Music Festival is organizing three one-week workshops this year: in April atPortul Cultural Cetate, and in July at Palazzo Ricci, Montepulciano/Italy. In the spirit of the European tradition for the chamber music, the chosen locations offer the tranquility and suitable atmosphere for the creative work.

The young Romanian musicians that have passed the selection will have the opportunity to study, next to world-renowned artists and professors from various European Conservatories, chamber music, the most intimate form of musical communication. At the end of every working session, the young musicians will interpret the music pieces they studied during the workshop, along with their professors, in specially organized concerts. The final concerts will take place in Craiova, Iaşi and Rome.

Following the motto ”we need true musicians, not only good players ”, The SoNoRo – Interferences wants to expand the universe of the selected young musicians and to stimulate their interest for other cultural domains. Thus, the three SoNoRo - Interferences workshops will benefit from the presence of some artists in residence.

The best ensembles formed as a result of the workshop will have the opportunity to concert within the Sonoro International Chamber Music Festival in November 2010.

SoNoRo – Interferences is the first initiative of this kind in Romania which wishes to contribute at the rise of the young Romanian musicians’ professional level and at the enlargement of their cultural horizon in an European context. SoNoRo – Interferences offers the young musicians not only the possibility of studying chamber music alongside European artists and professors, but also the opportunity of obtaining some long-term contacts.

The young musicians accepted at the SoNoRo – Interferences workshop will receive grants that will cover all the expenses. The 20 scholars will be selected after the audition in February, on the basis of their artistic achievements.

The SoNoRo – Interferences grant consists of:

- free courses (chamber music + solo instrument: piano, violin, viola, cello and clarinet)

- free transport from the residence city to the location of the workshop (train ticket, 2nd class for internal routes)

- free lodging and meals on the entire period of the workshop

The expenses for the participation at the audition will be paid by the candidate.

1. Selection Auditions:

Cluj: March 5th 2010, 15 hours, Gheorghe Dima Music Academy
Bucharest: March 6th 2010, 10.00 hours, The National Music University

2. Instruments 2009:

Piano, violin, viola, cello, clarinet

3. Audition program:

The audition will last about 15 minutes (for the music pieces that require piano backing, the backing player will be provided by the candidate) and it is individual.

One piece, at the candidate’s choice, by Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph Haydn, Franz Anton Hoffmeister, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Franz Krommer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, Karl Stamitz

One piece, at the candidate’s choice, by Johannes Brahms, Piotr Ilici Ceaikovski, Frédéric Chopin, Antonín Dvořák, Gabriel Fauré, César Franck, Franz Liszt, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Serghei Prokofiev, Serghei Rahmaninov, Camille Saint-Saëns, Robert Schumann, Dmitri Şostakovici, Richard Strauss, William Walton

Sight-read (every candidate will receive a fragment of a piece of the consecrated chamber music repertoire).

4. Age interval:

13-28 years (date of birth between January 1st 1982 and December 31st 1995 ).

5. Instruments and grants

Piano – 4, violin – 4, viola – 6, cello – 4, clarinet – 2

6. Period and locations:

I. March 28 th– April 4th 2010, Portul Cultural Cetate
II. April 22th – April 29th 2010, BNR, Centrul de pregatire profesionala si activitati sociale (CPPAS)Paltinis
III. July 11 – 18th 2010, Palazzo Ricci / Montepulciano (Italy)

7. Guest Artists:

piano:

Diana Ketler, Royal Academy of Music, Londra
Mihaela Ursuleasa, Music Academy, Berna

violin:

Alexander Sitkovetsky, Londra
Natasha Lomeiko, Londra

viola:

Răzvan Popovici, München

cello:

Bernhard Naoki Hedenborg, Viena
Răzvan Suma, Music National University, Bucureşti

clarinet:

Reto Bieri,Music Academy, Basel

8. Artists in residence:

Mircea Dinescu
Massimiliano Matésic, Zürich / Music Academy, Freiburg
Dan Pârvu, Romania International Radio France

9. Application/Results: http://www.sonoro.ro/en/proiecte/interferente

The selection commission reserves its rights to establish the distribution of the grant scholars in the three work sessions.

10. More Information :

Candidaţi deja calificaţi (compensaţie pentru workshop-ul anulat de la Muzeul Tescani din 2009):
PIAN:
Andrei Gologan, Piatra Neamţ
Adela Liculescu, Craiova

VIOARĂ:
Radu Duncă, Cluj
Diana Turcu, Iaşi

VIOLONCEL:
Andrei Niţescu, Bucureşti
Andrei Ioniţă, Bucureşti

Coordinator SoNoRo – Interferences Program 2010: Florence Margarit