Official Program - George Enescu International Festival

Sunday 07 September 2025
11:00 AM
Auditorium Hall, National Museum of Art of Romania

VLAD MAISTOROVICI conductor, violin

 

Vlad Maistorovici Metamorphosis after M. C. Escher

Michel van der Aa Shades of Red

Dan Dediu Hyperkardia II Op. 139

Mark-Anthony Turnage Romanian Rhapsody

George

Sunday 07 September 2025
07:30 PM
Grand Palace Hall

GUSTAV MAHLER JUGENDORCHESTER

MANFRED HONECK conductor

YO KITAMURA cello (winner of the George Enescu International Competition 2024)

 

George Enescu Sinfonia Concertante for Cello and Orchestra Op. 8

Anton Bruckner

Monday 08 September 2025
08:00 PM
Grand Palace Hall

ALAIN ALTINOGLU conductor

JULIAN RACHLIN violin

 

Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor Op. 47

Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 8 in C minor Op. 65

 

Monday 08 September 2025
05:00 PM
Romanian Athenaeum

JIŘÍ ROŽEŇ conductor

RĂZVAN POPOVICI viola

 

George Enescu Concertstück for Viola and Piano (arrangement for orchestra)

Stan Golestan Arioso et Allegro de concert  (orchestration by R. Popovici)

George

Tuesday 09 September 2025
05:00 PM
Romanian Athenaeum

EMMANUEL TJEKNAVORIAN conductor

SIMONE LAMSMA violin

 

Johannes Brahms Violin Concerto in D major Op. 77

Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 4 in E minor Op. 98

Tuesday 09 September 2025
08:00 PM
Grand Palace Hall

ALAIN ALTINOGLU conductor

GAUTIER CAPUÇON cello

 

George Enescu Suite No. 2 in C major Op. 20

Edward Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor Op. 85

Antonín Dvořák Symphony No…

Wednesday 10 September 2025
08:00 PM
Grand Palace Hall

DANIELE GATTI conductor

 

Tōru Takemitsu Requiem for String Orchestra

Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor

Wednesday 10 September 2025
05:00 PM
Romanian Athenaeum

GABRIEL BEBEȘELEA conductor

DANIEL CIOBANU piano

 

August de Boeck Dahomeyan Rhapsody

Isaac Albéniz Spanish Rhapsody Op. 70 (arrangement for piano and orchestra by George Enescu)

George Gershwin Rhapsody

Thursday 11 September 2025
08:00 PM
Grand Palace Hall

DANIELE GATTI conductor

KIRILL GERSTEIN piano

 

George Enescu Concert Overture on Themes in Romanian Folkloric Character Op. 32

Robert Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 54

Ludwig van

Thursday 11 September 2025
08:00 PM
MINA – Museum of Immersive New Art

ALEXANDRA SILOCEA piano (concept, idea, Bösendorfer artist)

PATRICIA NOLZ mezzo-soprano

LAËTITIA EÏDO actress, narrator

 

Klimt meets Bösendorfer – Ver Sacrum by Alexandra Silocea

 

*The concert will be performed…

Thursday 11 September 2025
05:00 PM
Romanian Athenaeum

KIM BRANDSTRUP choreographer

 

Breaking Bach

 

Johann Sebastian Bach

Sarabande from Suite in G minor for Lute BWV 995

Presto from Sonata No. 1 in G minor for Solo…

Friday 12 September 2025
07:30 PM
Grand Palace Hall

ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

VASILY PETRENKO conductor

ALEXANDRE KANTOROW pian

 

Edvard Grieg Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 Op. 46

Franz Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major S. 125