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Korean Grace Jee Eun Oh and Romanian Dragoș Cantea, an intrepid musical partnership based in Norway, comes to New York to offer a thrilling four hands piano recital, specially conceived for our popular Enescu Soirees. The program juxtaposes sublime melodies and wild rhythms,

Like every year, we mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a special event that highlights and examines painful moments related to the history of the Shoah in Romanian context. This year, when it is perhaps more relevant than ever in recent years to talk about

We end a busy 2023 of wonderful events with a special evening of Broadway classics and timeless carols dedicated to all our friends and collaborators who have shown us their generosity and support throughout this amazing year. Join us at RCI New York on December 15 and let’s

Thrilling new Romanian books in EnglishTwo of the most prolific Romanian-American authors, both revered physicians with a passion for words, return to the Romanian Cultural Institute on June 23 to discuss and read from their most recent books. While different in subject

Come meet the author of hypnotizing SOLENOID, finalist of Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, named one of the best books of 2022 by the New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, The Financial Times, and Words Without BordersWhile not his first English translation, Mircea Cărtărescu’s

Our 2023 program kicks off with a stunning performance, created especially for their American mini-tour, by screen star Vlad Ivanov, arguably the biggest leading man of Romanian cinema, and composer and percussionist Lucian Maxim. An ingenious mélange of poetry and music,

We are proud to partner with the Victims of Communism Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, and the Embassy of Romania to the United States for an evening of conversation and film that revisits the most seminal moment in Romania’s recent history, the Revolution of 1989, which

With a program full of diversity and color which reveal their assured technique and soulful expression, South Korean Grace Jee Eun Oh and Romanian Dragoș Andrei Cantea, both educated in Norway, are keen to demonstrate their exceptional ability at our next Enescu Soiree,

Romanian Cultural Institute in New York and ISVOR Cultural Association in Bucharest are pleased to launch a new online series, titled “7 eMotions”, which delves into the complicated inner lives of artists with the aim to reveal how their rich panoply of feelings is turned

Writers Carmen Firan and Adrian Sângeorzan, the prolific power couple of Romanian-American letters, have turned the long days of the pandemic into a fertile ambiance that allowed them to finish some long-in-the-waiting literary projects. Join us on April 29 for the launching

In traditional Romanian culture, Sânzienele is a holiday that takes place on June 24th. Also on this date, Orthodox Christian believers celebrate the birth of St. John the Baptist. It is believed that the feast of Sânziene is a pagan celebration of the summer solstice

This year, on Romania’s National Culture Day, coinciding by design with the birthday of our greatest poet, Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889), we think not only about creativity but also about courage; about determination as much as about imagination. We place the celebration