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personality of Romanian musical life, Petre Sbarcea
was the student of the maestros Antonin Ciolan and
Sergiu Celibidache. He perfected his conducting
art in Italy, France and the United States of America.
From 1957 to 1976, he was the conductor of the Romanian
Opera in Cluj - Napoca (and became director of the
Opera in 1992). He has been teaching orchestra conducting
at “Gh. Dima” Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca
since 1960. Between 1976-1990, he was manager and
head conductor of the State Philharmonic of Sibiu.
Today he is still the head conductor of the Philharmonic.
With an impressive number of recordings, Petre Sbarcea
has collaborated with all of the Philharmonics and
Operas in Romania and has had many successful tours
in Germany, Hungary, France, Iran, Bulgaria, Austria,
Belgium, Russia, Azerbaijan, the Netherlands, Switzerland,
Italy, Luxembourg and the Republic of Moldavia.
His artistic activity was rewarded with numerous
awards, among them:
The “Cultural Virtue” of Romania, “Mascagni”
Medal - Italy, a “Lifetime Achievement Award”
given by the Union of the Artists, Choreographers
and Music Critics of Romania in 1998 etc.
On March 1st 2003, the President of Romania awarded
him knight and the “Faithful Service”
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Switzerland
GUEST
MAIN CONDUCTOR
Born in
1970, in Riggisberg (Switzerland), Kaspar Zehnder
began his formation at the Conservatory in Bern.
He then continued his studies at the Music Academy
in the same town. In 1991, he obtained his Orchestra
and Opera Conductor diploma and in 1992 he received
a Flute Teaching diploma and was awarded first
prize for virtuosity (flute).
He conducted many symphonic orchestras in Switzerland,
Belgium, Germany, Russia, Poland, Hungary, the
Check Republic, Slovakia and Romania. He is a
member of the European Mozart Academy, president
of the “Johannes Brahms” Society,
artistic director of both the Summer Festival
in Morat and the chamber music concerts in Hondrich/Thun.
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ARTISTIC ASSOCIATED MANAGER
Having
studied at the National Superior Conservatory
in Paris and at the Monte-Carlo Opera, Francois
Robert – Girolami was asked on various occasions
during his career to conduct the National Opera
Orchestra in Monte-Carlo, the National Orchestra
in Haiffa, the Radio Orchestra in Zagreb, the
Symphonic Orchestras in Florence, Castillia Leon,
Avignon, Marseilles and Nancy.
A very good connoisseur of the Italian and French
lyrical repertoire, he conducted the great opera
works of Rossini, Verdi, Puccini and Bizet. He
conducted vocal and symphonic works of Mozart,
Verdi, Donizetti, Puccini, recorded contemporary
works for Radio-France and conducted concerts
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Born in Romania, Cristian Florea
was considered a great musical talent since his first
public shows, which was then confirmed by the numerous
awards he received at all international performance
competitions: Belgrad, Colmar - 1978, Geneva - 1979,
München (ARD) – 1982 and others.
Soloist of the orchestra in Tonhalle, of the opera in
Zürich and of the Radio Symphonic Orchestra in
Baden-Baden, he had a very productive teaching career
in Freiburg, Breisgau and Trotzingen (Germany). He held
concerts and cello recitals in most European countries
and in the United States of America; he recorded on
disc and CD for radio and television. Some of the most
important works in the cello literature are part of
his repertoire.
As conductor, soloist and manager, he worked with symphonic
orchestras from Madrid, Barcelona (Spain), with “George
Enescu” Philharmonic in Bucharest, the Philharmonic
of Monterrey (Mexico), with “The Prague Soloists”
(the Check Republic), “The Montpellier Soloists”
(France), the National Chamber Orchestra (the Republic
of Moldovia), the Philharmonic in Ploiesti and the Philharmonic
in Sibiu, as well as others. He founded his own orchestra
– “Kammerorchester Cristian Florea”
in Freiburg (Germany) and is currently founder and manager
of Orquestra Simfònica Europea.
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FRANCOIS
ROBERT-GIROLAMI