Welcome Concertin honour of the newly arrived Ambassador of Switzerland, H.E. Arthur Mattli, at the beginning of his mandate in Romania, offered by Societatea Muzicala,The Cotroceni National Museum and The Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Cerchez Concert Hall of The Cotroceni Palace, Thurday 13rd of June at 16:00h.
Recital:
Ioana Balasa (flute)
Abel Corban(piano)
Ana Boldea (piano)
Marius Boldea (piano)
Nina Achilov (contralto)
Tudor Scripcariu(piano)
Program: 60 minutes (no interlude)
Ioana Balasa & Abel Corban
Serenada – Franz Schubert
Piece en forme de Habanera – Maurice Ravel
Aria lui Lenski – Piotr Ilici Ceaikovski
Suite Paysanne Hongroise – Bela Bartok
Ana Boldea & Marius Boldea
Selectie de dansuri ungare – Johannes Brahms
Nina Achilov & Tudor Scripcariu
E sgombro il loco- Anna Bolena – Gaetano Donizetti
Aria Konceakovnei-Cneazul Igor – Aleksandr Borodin
Deh tu bell’anima-I Capuleti e i Montecchi – Vincenzo Bellini
Young graduate of the National University of Music, Nina is a soloist at the Comic Opera House for Children in Bucharest, with roles in The Magic Flute, The Sound of Music and King’s Daughter. Other roles: “La Sphinge” (National Opera Bucharest), Dido, in Purcell’s masterpiece “Dido & Aeneas” (Iasi Athenaeum) and Olga, in “Eugene Onegin” (National University of Music).
Recitals in Greece (Thessaloniki Conservatory), Italy (Athenaeum Hall in Barletta), Bulgaria (Vidin Philharmonic), Lauder-Reut Gala at the Parliament, “George Enescu” Festival Square, “Ion Dumitrescu” Philharmonic in Ramnicu Valcea, “Paul Constantinescu” Philharmonic in Ploiesti, The Art Museum in Constanta, Old Music Festival in Miercurea Ciuc, “George Enescu” Museum in Bucharest, Cultural Centre Arcub, Palace of the National Military Circle, etc.
Vocal-symphonic music: “Stabat Mater” by G. B. Pergolesi, at the Romanian Athenaeum and the “Paul Constantinescu” Philharmonic in Ploiesti. Soloist with “Alexandrov Ensemble”
Tudor Scripcariu – pianist
Tudor Scripcariu was born in 1987 in Bucharest, Romania. He attended the “George Enesco” Musical High School at teacher Mihaela Zamfirescu’s class. During the high school he obtained over 25 national and international prizes including 3 grand prizes at the “Sigismund Toduta”, “Carl Czerny” and “W.A.Mozart” Competitions.
Some of the top prizes achieved were the 2nd prize with silver medal at the “Maryse Cheilan” international Competition- Hyeres – France and the 1st prize with gold medal at the “San Bartolomeo al Mare” international Competition- Italy.
In Romania, Tudor has given many recitals at the Romanian Athenaeum, National Opera – Bucharest, National Opera – Constanta, at the “George Enesco” National Museum, Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca Radio Studios. He has appeared on Romanian Television and at the “Mariana” Academy from Lleida – Spain.
Tudor has been concerto soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestras from Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Satu-Mare, Rm. Valcea and Manchester Camerata.
Between 2007-2010, Tudor studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester where his teacher was Helen Krizos. During the first year of study he obtained many prizes. These include 2nd prize with silver medal at the “Moray” Piano Competition – Scotland, together with two major awards for piano accompaniment. In August 2009 Tudor won the Manchester International Concerto Competition.
Tudor has performed in many master classes, including: Andras Schiff, Ian Brown, Stefano Fiuzzi, Nelson Goerner, Alexander Melnikov, Martino Tirimo, Philippe Cassard, Antoin Voigt, Richard Goode, and Graham Scott.
Currently, Tudor is doing his Phd in Music Performance at the National University of Music in Bucharest and is a teacher assistant in the Singing Department of the same university. Since 2015, Tudor is the accompanist pianist of the Comic Opera for Children in Bucharest.
Ioana Balasa
Born in 1989, the Romanian flutist Ioana Bălaşa is currently a member of the “George Enescu” Bucharest Philharmonic. Previously she held the flute position at the “Mihail Jora” Bacău Philharmonic.
As a Principal Flute player she has worked with important conductors including Alexandre Bloch, John Axelrod, Leo Hussein, Cristian Măcelaru and with leading Romanian orchestras as the “Romanian Youth Orchestra” and the “Romanian Royal Camerata”.
Beside the work she has been part of in Romania, she had been invited by maestro Gustav Kuhn to play with Tiroler Festpiele Erl Orchestra in 2016.
She commenced her musical studies in her hometown at the age of 8 and in 2012 she graduated with Bachelor’s Degree the Bucharest National University of Music. During her studies, she has been for one year an Erasmus student at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg under the guidance of Mario Caroli. In the pursuit of developing her flute performance, she attended masterclasses with renowned flutists including Kersten McCall, Walter Auer, Jean-Claude Gerard, Michael Kofler, Erwin Klambauer and many others. Since 2018 she holds a Master Degree in Chamber Music at the Bucharest National Univerity of Music.
Ioana Balaşa has appeared as a soloist from the age of 15 with the “Mihail Jora” Bacău Philharmonic. As a chamber music player she performs in places like the Romanian Atheneum, Suțu Pallace, “Dinu Lipatti” House, “George Enescu” Museum and she is open to new experiences and musical encounters. More recently she is collaborating with Laurențiu Sima on tuba, with whom she founded “Limite” Ensemble, where she plays the piccolo-flute.
Ana and Marius Boldea are PhD students and graduates of bachelor and master’s degree studies at the National University of Music in Bucharest, in the class of professor. dr. Manuela Giosa. They have formed a piano duo (4 hands – 2 pianos) since 2014. They are finalists in the Suzana Szörenyi International Duo Competition and winners of the International Pro Piano Competition, in the 4-hand category in 2015. They have a rich concert activity, performing recitals of piano duo both in Bucharest and in other cities of the country, such as Sighișoara, Timișoara, Bușteni, Brașov, Constanța (within the Tomisul etern festival). They participated in duo masterclasses with pianists Octavian Renea, Caterina Vivarelli and Josu de Solaun. They are permanent collaborators of the Friedrich Schiller House of Culture in Bucharest, where they support monthly artistic moments of piano duo. They made their debut at the Romanian Athenaeum in November 2017 performing the full Hungarian Dances by J. Brahms for 4 hands. In April 2018, in Brașov, they give a piano duo recital at the Brassovia Chamber Music Festival and perform at the Chei Festival, a festival organized by the National University of Music in Bucharest. In May and June 2018, they won two I¸ prizes in the 4-hand piano category, at the Sabin Pautza – Reșița and Pro Piano – Bucharest International Competitions. In August, the duo is part of the „Connect Arts” project and makes a recording on Radio Romania. In November, the duo won the first prize at the National Competition „Eduard Caudella” – Chamber Music section – held in Iasi. In March 2019, the duo won the second prize at the Mihail Jora National Contest, held in Bucharest. In May, the duo performs F. Poulenc’s Concerto in D minor for two pianos and orchestra at UNMB with the orchestra Universitaria under the baton of Alexandru Ganea. In May and June, the duo performs three times on the Big Stage of the Romanian Athenaeum, once on the small stage, as well as at the Swiss Embassy and the Cotroceni Museum. In September, the duo participates in the International Contest „Humanitarian” held in Milan. Also from September, the two pianists are teachers at two of the Gymnasium Schools of Arts in Bucharest. In November, they give a recital at the Romanian Athenaeum on the occasion of the launch of a new issue of Memoria Magazine. On December 1, they give a recital dedicated to the national day at the House of Culture in Rădăuți, through the Klavier Art project founded by the piano duo formed by Corina Răducanu and Eugen Dumitrescu, whith young Romanian pianists of international stature such as Daria Tudor and Florian Mitrea. In February 2020, they give a recital at the Romanian Athenaeum, performing only Romanian music (G. Enescu, C. Silvestri, D. Dediu, L. Klepper, D. Constantinescu) and performing the first audition of the Sonatina by Dan Constantinescu. In March, they are awarded with the first prize as well as the Grand Prize at the „Ada Ulubeanu” National Contest. In January 2021, they won second prize at the Odin International Competition (Dublin, Ireland) as well as a special prize – a recital in Denmark.
Abel – Edison Corban was born in Bacau (Romania) and began piano lessons at the age of 6. In 2015 he graduated with the highest honors from the National University of Music in Bucharest, the piano class of Professor Viniciu Moroianu and Verona Maier (chamber music). He also participated in masterclasses with Dimitri Bashkirov, Martin Huges, Gabriel Amiras and benefited from the advice and guidance of Romanian . Abel won the Liszt/Bartok International Piano Competition (Sofia 2015), Yamaha Pianos Europe (Public and Jurry Prize – UK 2013), Tribut al valorilor culturale romanesti – Sergiu Celibidache Foundation, Mihail Jora, Lionnes International Piano Competition (Timisoara 2013) and was a laureate of Jeunesses Musicales International Piano Competition in 2011. He has since played as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Romania, Egypt, Monaco, France, Greece, Austria, Switzerland and Italy.
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