The Peleș National Museum invites you on Saturday, 19 August, 4:00 PM in the Peleş Castle Concert Hall, listen to a unique concert program offered by the artists LUMINITZA PETRE – violin and IOANA MARIA LUPAŞCU – piano.

LIGHTING FOR PETER

A complex musical personality, Luminitza Petre has attracted the attention of the specialized press since her first public appearances. She is a violinist, conductor, member of various chamber music groups, founder and manager of musical ensembles and festivals. She has fulfilled the position of special professional responsibility, that of concertmaster of the Stuttgart State Orchestra. Her long practice within this renowned ensemble, as well as within the International Bach Academy or within the Heilbronn Chamber Orchestra, contributed to the start of a remarkable conducting career.

Since her student days, Luminitza Petre has performed extensively as a soloist with all the Romanian philharmonic orchestras, as well as with the National Radio Orchestra. The consolidation of her career continued with appearances on concert stages in Stuttgart, Vienna, and Tokyo. She recorded the Complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin by J.S. Bach – a double CD, a recording that was highly appreciated by the specialized press and, later, in 2006, was nominated for the “Academy Award” in Tokyo. The chamber concerts held as part of the Clara Wieck Piano Trio, in Heidelberg, as well as the teaching activity as a docent within the Baden-Württemberg State Youth Orchestra, completed her artistic personality.

In 2007, on the occasion of Romania's entry into the European Union, he founded the "Camerata Enescu" band and the "George Enescu - Stuttgart Festival" in Stuttgart under the aegis of the German-Romanian Forum and the Romanian Consulate in Munich.

Luminitza Petre is a graduate of the Bucharest Academy of Music in the class of teachers Valeriu Rogacev and Cornelia Bronzetti. She attended master classes with Ştefan Gheorghiu, Valery Gradow, Zachar Bron in Mannheim and Vienna. She is a laureate of the International Competitions "Tibor Varga" Sion - Switzerland, "Rodolfo Lipizer" Gorizia - Italy, of the national competitions "Dinu Lipatti" - Craiova, "Sonata a-3 de George Enescu" - Oradea; she was awarded the "Music Critics' Award" - Bucharest, her She was a student of the "George Enescu" College in Bucharest; but she began studying the violin when she was 6 years old, in Ploieşti.

Luminitza Petre playing a Matteo Gofriller violin – Venice 1690.

IOANA MARIA LUPAŞCU

She is one of the most dynamic musicians currently active in the Romanian and European musical space; both as a soloist with various orchestral groups in the country and abroad, as well as in the field of chamber music; she has also supported and supports numerous recital programs.

She is a graduate of the National University of Music in Bucharest; she continued her studies at the Lausanne Conservatory in Switzerland, where she obtained a piano virtuosity class diploma;

He also attended advanced piano courses at the Accademia Europea di Musica, in Italy, in the class of the famous maestro Lazar Berman, whose disciple he remained until his last moments, in 2005.

The meeting with him had an enormous influence in enriching the pianistic and expressive means available to Ioana Lupașcu; both in terms of penetrating the meaningful values of the musical text, and in terms of the quality of the sound, or specifically aspects of instrumental virtuosity.

She began studying piano at an early age; she was later tutored in the class of Professor Lucia Toedorescu, at the George Enescu National College of Music in Bucharest.

Ioana Lupașcu is the holder of a rich list of awards such as the Golden Lira from Suceava, the Konzerteum from Greece, the Mihail Jora Award from the Union of Music Critics; as well as awards from important competitions in Turkey.

He has performed with all the symphonic ensembles in the country, as well as with the National Radio Orchestra; he has performed with symphony orchestras in Italy, Croatia, Lithuania, Belgium, Slovakia, Switzerland, Turkey, the Maldives…

She appears as a guest at various music festivals in the country and abroad, in the company of renowned conductors such as JF Antonioli, Ovidiu Balan, Brian Barker, Ken Carella, Mika Eichenholz, Iurie Florea, Dorin Frandes, I. Ionescu-Galati, Marius Hristescu, Pietro-Ladislau Horvath, A. Iosub, Radu Postavaru, Gottfried Rabl, Petre Sbarcea, Tiberiu Soare, Florin Totan, Takiro Ueno.

He has performed in important concert halls such as the Romanian Athenaeum, the Radio Hall in Bucharest, the Puccini Hall of the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, or the San Babila Theater in Milan.

For ten years, Ioana Maria Lupașcu has been a soloist with the Paul Constantinescu Philharmonic in Ploiești.

As a result of an important recital dedicated entirely to the music of George Enescu, held in Milan, he was awarded the prestigious distinction of Honorary Member of the Association of Romanians in Italy.

Ten years ago he released the CD "Live Piano Solo" (Ed. Libris) with works by Bach-Busoni, Liszt, Rachmaninov, Silvestri Mendelssohn-Bartholdy; and in 2009 the CD entitled "Piano Recital" (Ed. Casa Radio), which includes works by Scarlatti, Chopin, Liszt, Schubert, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Bartok.