American Romanian Festival 2018 • September 29, 2018 Program

FROM FOLK TO CLASSIC WITH CIMBALOM & VIOLIN

CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT

September 29, 2018, 3:00 p.m.

Steinway Piano Gallery Detroit 2700 E. West Maple Rd Commerce Charter Twp, MI 48390

$25 ADMISSION

100 YEARS OF GREAT UNION R OMANIAN CE NTENARY

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100 YEARS OF GREAT UNION R O M ANIAN CE NTE NARY

FROM FOLK TO CLASSIC WITH CIMBALOM & VIOLIN

September 29, 2018 3:00 p.m.

Steinway Piano Gallery 2700 E. West Maple Rd. Commerce Charter Twp, MI 48390

$25 ADMISSION

CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT

ARTISTS

Daniel Lazăr VIOLIN

Alexandru Şura C I M B A LO M

PROGRAM DETAILS

CONCERT PROGRAM

This is a concert in celebration of the 100-year anniversary of Romania’s unification of the Romanian regions into a new republic.

Toni Iordache (1942–1988) “Balada haiduceasca”

The date of the unification was December 1, 1918. The Romanian folk melodies are from different regions of the country. The anonymous composer songs have been passed from generation to generation through the memory of the performers. The cimbalom is an instrument present throughout the Balkans regions and predominant in Romanian folk music.

We hope that this special and unique concert will present a kaleidoscope of Romania through the ancestral voices of the Romanian songs. ❖

AMERICAN ROMANIAN FESTIVAL

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anonymous Variations on the song “Corn Harvest” (Variatiuni pe tema "La cules de cucuruz")

Robert Conway PIANO

anonymous Folk suite Barbu Lautarul (Suita Barbu Lautarul) anonymous Hungarian folk suite (Suita Ungureasca)

anonymous Suite from the Banat region (Suita Banat)

anonymous Suite from the Oltenia Region (Suita Olteneasca)

anonymous Suite from the Maramureş/Oaşi region (Suita Maramureş/Oaşi)

Aram Khachaturian (1903–1978) arr: A. Sura “Sabre Dance”

anonymous Suite from the Mureş/Alba region (Suita Mureş/Alba)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) “Flight of the Bumblebee”

anonymous “River Someş” (“Someş”) anonymous “Young Man’s Dance” (“Fecioresc”) Daniel Lazăr, violin Alexandru Şura, cimbalom

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Introduction and Rondo capriccioso Vittorio Monti (1868–1922) Czardas (Csárdás) Alexandru Şura, cimbalom Robert Conway, piano

100 YEARS OF GREAT UNION R O MA N IAN CEN T E NA R Y

FROM FOLK TO CLASSIC CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT

CONCERT PROGRAM

This is a concert in celebration of the 100-year anniversary of Romania’s unification of the Romanian regions into a new republic.

Toni Iordache (1942–1988) “Balada haiduceasca”

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anonymous Hungarian folk suite (Suita Ungureasca)

anonymous Suite from the Banat region (Suita Banat)

anonymous Suite from the Oltenia Region (Suita Olteneasca)

anonymous Suite from the Maramureş/Oaşi region (Suita Maramureş/Oaşi)

Aram Khachaturian (1903–1978) arr: A. Sura “Sabre Dance”

anonymous Suite from the Mureş/Alba region (Suita Mureş/Alba)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) “Flight of the Bumblebee” Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Introduction and Rondo capriccioso

anonymous “River Someş” (“Someş”) anonymous “Young Man’s Dance” (“Fecioresc”)

AMERICAN ROMANIAN FESTIVAL B R I D G E CU LT U R E S

anonymous Folk suite Barbu Lautarul (Suita Barbu Lautarul)

anonymous Variations on the song “Corn Harvest” (Variatiuni pe tema "La cules de cucuruz")

Daniel Lazăr, violin Alexandru Şura, cimbalom

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Steinway Piano Gallery 2700 E. West Maple Rd. Commerce Charter Twp, MI 48390

WITH CIMBALOM & VIOLIN

PROGRAM DETAILS

The date of the unification was December 1, 1918. The Romanian folk melodies are from different regions of the country. The anonymous composer songs have been passed from generation to generation through the memory of the performers. The cimbalom is an instrument present throughout the Balkans regions and predominant in Romanian folk music.

We hope that this special and unique concert will present a kaleidoscope of Romania through the ancestral voices of the Romanian songs. ❖

September 29, 2018 3:00 p.m.

Vittorio Monti (1868–1922) Czardas (Csárdás) Alexandru Şura, cimbalom Robert Conway, piano

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THE

SANT EIU FAMILY

ARTISTS

Daniel Lazăr

Alexandru Şura

Robert Conway

Daniel Lazar was born in Faureni, Romania and studied violin at the Music School in Cluj Napoca. His love of the folk music comes from his mother who was a folk music singer. From very early on Daniel became a member of the very prestigious folk ensemble “Romanasul” where he accumulated a vast repertoire of folk tunes from all the regions of Romania.

He participated in numerous international folk festivals in Switzerland, Germany, France, United States and Canada. Daniel now lives with his family in Montreal Canada, where he is a sought after folk artists and has a continuous presence among the festivals organized by the Romanian community in Canada. Daniel is the leader and founder of the Romanian folk ensemble “Martisorul” in Montreal, a group focused in performing the rich and beautiful Romanian folk music legacy.❖

Born in 1980 in Kishinev, Moldova, the talented Alexandru Șura started studding piano at the ‘V. Poleacov’ school of music. Two years later he entered the cimbalom class at Ciprian Porumbescu High School. Since the age of 12, Alexandru has consistently won the top prize in various national and international competitions.

At about this time he began to play with some of the most professional and prestigious orchestras in Romania and Moldova including the academic orchestras ‘JOC’ and ‘LAUTARII.’ Since having embarked upon his solo career he has given many concerts and recitals in concert halls such as the National Philharmonic (Moldova), Place des Arts (Canada) and has toured extensively including appearances in Canada, USA, Romania, Austria, Russia, Germany, Belarus, Israel, France, Spain, Switzerland, Poland, Estonia, and Turkey.

Alexandru has an impressive interpretive technique, and a sound with a rare finesse. He is emotional in everything he does. He is true and persuasive, always winning over the public with the expressiveness of his interpretation.

His repertoire is rich and varied, ranging from traditional music, folk performances and classical music to works by contemporary composers.❖

Robert Conway is an associate professor of piano at Wayne State University, where he is also the director of the piano area. Since 1989, he has performed regularly as orchestral keyboardist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and has been a soloist with them on several occasions.

In 2013, he performed the solo piano part to Symphony No. 4 by Charles Ives in Carnegie Hall as part of the Detroit Symphony’s presentation of the complete symphonies of Ives. He has served as a musical representative of the United States as an Artistic Ambassador of the United States Information Agency on a month-long tour of South Asia and the Middle East in 1997, as well as acting as a Department of State Cultural Envoy to Jamaica in 2005 and Azerbaijan in 2008.

As a soloist and chamber musician, he has appeared at numerous national and international festivals, performed concertos with many orchestras, collaborated with prestigious composers, given countless premieres and is featured on several recordings on numerous labels. In 2009, he performed as part of the American Romanian Festival in Timisoara and Sannicolau Mare, Romania. Conway received a Bachelor’s degree in piano performance from the New England Conservatory and Master’s and Doctoral degrees in piano performance from the University of Michigan. His principal teachers were Theodore Lettvin, Rudolf Kolisch and Eugene Bossart. Mr. Conway has participated in American Romanian Festival events since 2005, and he is the Pianist in Residence for the Fusion performances. ❖

VIOLIN

C I M B A LO M

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PIANO