Official Program - George Enescu International Festival

Sunday 31 August 2025
10:30 PM
Romanian Athenaeum

ASMIK GRIGORIAN soprano

LUKAS GENIUŠAS piano

 

The program includes works by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rahmaninov, George Enescu, Maurice Ravel

Monday 01 September 2025
05:00 PM
Romanian Athenaeum

RENAUD CAPUÇON leader, violin

HYEONJEONG LEE violin (laureate of the George Enescu International Competition 2024)

 

Johann Sebastian Bach Concerto in D minor for Two Violins and Orchestra BWV 1043

George

Monday 01 September 2025

1.09 – 10.09

National University of Music Bucharest

Institut français de Roumanie à Bucarest

LUMIÈRES D’EUROPE ACADEMY

 

Resistance and Freedom

 

Monday 01 September 2025
08:00 PM
Grand Palace Hall

CRISTIAN MĂCELARU conductor

NONA CIOBANU, PETER KOŠIR multimedia directors

 

Richard Strauss Salomè Op. 54

 

JENNIFER HOLLOWAY Salomè (soprano)

IAIN PATERSON Jochanaan (baritone)

TANJA ARIANE BAUMGARTNER Herodias (mezzo-soprano)

GERHARD

Tuesday 02 September 2025
08:00 PM
Grand Palace Hall

PAAVO JÄRVI conductor

ALISA WEILERSTEIN cello

 

George Enescu Prelude from Oedipe

Dmitri Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 2 in G minor Op. 126

Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2 in…

Tuesday 02 September 2025
05:00 PM
Romanian Athenaeum

FRANCK OLLU conductor

SARAH ARISTIDOU soprano

 

Pierre Boulez Improvisations I et II sur Mallarmé

Maurice Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte, M.19

Claude Debussy Three Poems on Verses…

Wednesday 03 September 2025
05:00 PM
Romanian Athenaeum

USTINA DUBITSKY conductor

ISABELLE FAUST violin

 

Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major Op. 61

Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique op. 14

Wednesday 03 September 2025
08:00 PM
Grand Palace Hall

GEORGE ENESCU PHILHARMONIC CHOIR

PAAVO JÄRVI conductor

IOSEF ION PRUNNER conductor of the choir

 

Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 2 for orchestra, soprano, alto and mixed choir in C minor…

Thursday 04 September 2025
05:00 PM
Romanian Athenaeum

LAHAV SHANI conductor

VALENTIN ȘERBAN violin

 

Johan Wagenaar Overture for Orchestra Op. 23, Cyrano de Bergerac

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major K. 219

Antonín

Thursday 04 September 2025
08:00 PM
Grand Palace Hall

PETR POPELKA conductor

 

George Enescu Symphony No. 4 in E minor (posthumously completed by Pascal Bentoiu)

Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances Op. 45

Thursday 04 September 2025
08:00 PM
MINA – Museum of Immersive New Art

LETICIA MORENO violin

CLAUDIO CONSTANTINI bandoneón

UXÍA MARTÍNEZ BOTANA double bass

MATAN PORAT piano

 

Bach in the Jungle

 

Johann Sebastian Bach Sonata No 4 in C minor BWV…

Friday 05 September 2025
10:30 PM
Romanian Athenaeum

PURCELL CHOIR

OTTAVIO DANTONE leader, harpsichord

 

Francesco Bartolomeo Conti Il trionfo della fama

 

BENEDETTA MAZZUCATO Genio (contralto)

SOPHIE RENNERT Gloria (mezzo-soprano)

NICOLÒ BALDUCCI Fama (countertenor)

MARTIN VANBERG