- 2 November 2022
- Tags ICR Londra Seria Enescu Remus Azoiței Eduard Stan
The November concert in the 'Enescu Concerts' series offers an exceptional encounter with two brilliant Romanian musicians, Remus Azoiței (violin) and Eduard Stan (piano), the supreme experts in George Enescu's chamber work. With a programme that highlights the manifold connections between Romanian and European classical music, the duo’s hypnotic presence will prove once more why they are considered to have established the golden standard of Enescu’s interpretation.
Programme:
- F. Kreisler: Praeludium & Allegro
- L. van Beethoven: Romance in F Major, op. 50
- G. Enescu:Sonata no. 2 in F minor, op. 6
- B. Bartok: Romanian Folk Dances
- Viorel Munteanu: Brancusi's "Fauraria" (2021)
- W. A. Mozart: Sonata in E minor, KV304
- P. Sarasate: ‘Carmen’ Fantasy
Entrance is free but it is required to book your ticket on Eventbrite.
”Azoitei and Stan combine temperament, mastery of idiom and executive elegance in a very special way” (GRAMOPHONE)
“Two estimable artists” (THE STRAD)
“… extremely colourful and fiery, musical and at the same time artistic”
(BERLINER MORGENPOST)
Founded in 1999 by two Romanian-born artists, the violin and piano duo Remus Azoitei and Eduard Stan have established themselves „among the most outstanding of duo partnerships“ (Classical Source). Both artists have since been regular guests in such venues as Carnegie Hall New York (WRH), Kennedy Center Washington DC, Wigm0re Hall London, Konzerthaus Berlin and Vienna, Accademia di Santa Cecilia Rome, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Salle Cortot Paris, Auditorio Nacional Madrid, Rudolfinum Prague, Konserthuset Stockholm or Teatro La Fenice Venice. Performances in recent years have brought the duo to Edinburgh and the World Expo Milano 2015, followed by a tour in 2016 including the London Menuhin-Festival, the Palais Béhague in Paris, Gödöllö Castle in Budapest and Fulya Sanat in Istanbul.In 2000 they celebrated 20 years of collaboration through numerous performances in the season 2019-2020, including in London, Stockholm, Warsaw, Nicosia, Tokyo and New York, where they have been invited for a recital at Carnegie Hall.
A milestone in the impressive career of the duo represented the recording of the first ever entire repertoire for violin and piano by George Enescu, launched by Hänssler Classic on 2 CDs in 2007. This collection not only attracted international acclaim but furthermore it was immediately regarded as a model of interpretation of the genius‘ Enescu sublime music. In terms of musical ambassadors also representing Romania on many diplomatic occasions, Azoitei and Stan are nowadays considered their homeland‘s most outstanding duo in the field of classical music.
Described in The Strad as “an uninhibited virtuoso, with soul and fabulous technique”, Remus Azoitei graduated from the Juilliard School in New York in 2001 after his studies with Dorothy DeLay, Masao Kawasaki and Itzhak Perlman and has since been a featured soloist of prestigious European ensembles including the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de Belgique and Deutsches Kammerorchester. He has performed under conductors such as Lawrence Foster, Dimitri Kitaenko, Michael Sanderling and Gabriel Chmura. A prize-winner of international violin competitions in Bucharest, Milan, Weimar and Wellington, NZ, Remus performed Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins with Nigel Kennedy in 2005, a concert broadcast on 19 Radio and TV stations across Europe and North America, including Arte and Mezzo. The same year, he received "The Cultural Order" from the Romanian President.
In 2001, Remus Azoitei was appointed violin professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, becoming the youngest-ever violin professor in the history of this institution. He is the Artistic Director of the Enescu Society in London and is one of its founding members. Remus lives in London and performs on a violin made by Niccolo Gagliano in 1750.
Hailed by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for his “eminent sense of tonal timbres and colours”, Eduard Stan emigrated to Germany in 1978 at the age of eleven. He has widely performed across Europe, the US and Israel, past engagements taking him to major festivals such as Massenet, Lille Pianos or Piano à Riom in France, Enescu festival in Romania, Hohenloher Kultursommer and Braunschweig Classix in Germany, Julitafestivalen in Sweden, Royal Crakow Piano Festival in Poland or Schumann-Festival in Galway/Ireland. He has appeared as a soloist with orchestras including the Enescu Philharmonic and Romanian National Radio Orchestra in venues such as Berliner Philharmonie or Bucharest Atheneum, under the baton of Christian Badea, Cristian Mandeal, Jin Wang, Lutz Köhler, Shinya Ozaki, George Jackson and Theo Wolters, among others.
A student of Arie Vardi and Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Eduard Stan graduated from the Academy of Music and Drama in Hanover, where he obtained his Master’s Degree and has also benefited from lessons in orchestral conducting. Born in Transylvania’s town of Brasov, he has been awarded the Prometheus Prize by his country for his merits in promoting Romanian culture abroad.
When: Thursday, 3 November 2022, 19:00-21:00
Where:Romanian Cultural Institute, 1 Belgrave Square London SW1X 8PH
Free entry.
