Radio Romania International Announced another brand new contest for RRI Listeners on International Radio Orchestra Festival.Here the details from RRI web:
Dear friends of RRI, you are once again invited to a prize winning
contest: “The 3rd RadiRo International Radio Orchestras Festival”. It is
dedicated to a unique musical event in Europe, bringing to the Radio Concert
Hall stage 6 major orchestras and world famous soloists and conductors.
Radio Romania is the organizer of the 3rd International Radio
Orchestra Festival between 23 September and 1 October, the only musical event
cultivating the skill and excellence of radio symphony orchestras around the
world every 2 years, since 2012.
The 9-day festival will bring together on the Radio Concert Hall stage
5 famous classical music ensembles from around Europe, and, as a first for
Bucharest, a Chinese ensemble, the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra. The latter
opens the festival on September 23rd with a concert headlined by Chinese
pianist Zuo Zhang and Romanian violinist Gabriel Croitoru, playing the famous
Guarneri de Gesu violin that used to belong to the great Romanian musician
George Enescu.
The festival features the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, which performs
every year at the Nobel Peace Prize awarding ceremony. One other notable
presence is the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, the oldest radio
orchestra in Germany, under the baton of Kristjan Järvi, who is also the
honorary director of RadiRo 2016.
The Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra brings to the festival famous
violinist Gidon Kremer. The BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Barry
Wordsworth, will close the festival on October 1st. The Romanian National Radio
Orchestra will hold two concerts at the RadiRo Festival, on September 26th and
30th, featuring conductors Cristian Macelaru and Leo Hussain, alongside violin
soloist Alexandru Tomescu and cellist Razvan Suma, with the participation of
the Radio Academic Choir and the Radio Children’s Choir.
The closing date is October
1st, 2016 mailing date.
The prizes and honorary mentions consist of Romanian and international
classical music CDs signed by famous Romanian artists, as well as various
cultural items. The contest is organized jointly with the Nicolae Tonitza Fine
Art High School of Bucharest, Casa Radio Publishing House, and Electrecord
label.
And here are the questions:
- Name the year of the first
edition of the International Radio Orchestras Festival
- Who is the honorary director
of the 3rd edition of the festival?
- How many orchestras will be
performing at the 2016 edition of RadiRo?
- Who is the organizer of the
festival?
Please tell us what prompted you to participate in the contest and why
you are listening to RRI’s broadcasts and following RRI’s content online. Our
address is: Radio Romania International, 60-64 G-ral Berthelot Street, District
1, Bucharest, PO Box 111, zip code 010165, fax 00.40.21.319.05.62, e-mail: engl@rri.ro. Please send your answers by October
1st 2016, mailing date.
The winners of the Grand Prize will be announced
soon after that date. Good luck!
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