The Romanian Cultural Institute and the Romanian Embassy to Lebanon in coordination with the Faculty of Music of the Saint-Esprit de Kaslik University (USEK) and the Office of Communications of the American University in Beirut (AUB) cordially invite you to a concert by famous Romanian artists Octavian Gheorghiu (clarinet) and Remus Henning (organ). This event is sponsored by the Union of Interpretative Creation of Romanian Musicians (UCMR).
Saturday June 4th, 2011
Romanian Concert
Time: 20:00
Address: AUB Assembly Hall, American University in Beirut, Riad El-Solh / Beirut, Lebanon
Telephone: +961-1-340460 / 350000
Website: http://www.aub.edu.lb/bulletin/121562.html
FREE ENTRANCE
Tuesday June 7th, 2011
Romanian Classical Music Concert
Time: 20:00
Address: The John Paul II Amphitheatre of the Saint-Esprit de Kaslik University, Jounieh, Mount Lebanon
Telephone: (+961) 9 600 000, (+961) 9 600 001
FREE ENTRANCE
Program:
1. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Fantasia e Fuga, a moll
2. G.Tartini (1692-1770), Celebre Largo
3.G. Faure , Berceuse op.16
4.A. Corelli, La Follia
5. Georg Andreas Sorge (1703-1778), Fuga Nr. 1-2
6. Marie Claire Alain (1926), Grand Symphonie Pour Orgue (Vivace, Adagio-Andante, Vivacissimo
Remus Henning holds a license from the Brasov Conservatory in Romania. He specialized in church music at the Regensburg Conservatory, Germany and obtained a master in organ performing art from the Music Conservatory in France. He is an organ player, an orchestra and choir conductor, and he organizes concerts and musical activities. He is a constant and appreciated presence on concert stages in Romania, Germany, Hungary, Italy, France, Spain, Kazakhstan etc. Henning has won prizes at various organ contests in Vienna, Regensburg, Munchen. He has also won The Prize for Baroque Music at the International Music Festival in Vidon, Paris and The Prize for Best Modern Interpretation at the Music International Festival in San Petro, Italy.
Octavian Gheorghiu was born in 1977 in Bucharest, Romania and started his music training at the age of six. In 1996 he graduated from the "Dinu Lipatti" Music High School, Bucharest and in 2002 from the Bucharest National Music University. Gheorghiu performed several soloist activities in several orchestras in Romania, Germany and Lebanon. He received several international awards including the "Mihail Jora" prize with the Cantabile Trio at the "APERTO" International Chamber Music Contest in Bucharest in 2000.
