Conductor – Dorin Frandeş
Programme
Joseph Haydn – Symphony no. 100 Military
Edvard Grieg, Peer Gynt – 1st and 2nd suites
Reciter – Nicolae Mihai Brânzeu
Symphonic concert bringing forth great names: Grieg și Ibsen
One of our main symphonic concerts set for October will take place on Thursday evening, 15th October 2015, at the Military Center located on no. 19 Decebal Str., starting with 7 PM. The guests of an evening of classical music are conductor Dorin Frandeș and Nicolae Mihai Brânzeu – the latter being welcome, this time, in the position of reciter – who have prepared a collaborative version of the famous Peer Gynt suites for orchestra by Edvard Grieg – including both music and text.
“We invite you, on Thursday evening, on a special journey within a vast empire dominated both by music and by dramatic creation. More precisely, dominated by two creative geniuses who have each garnered a leading position in lyrical and dramatical creation: Edvard Grier and Henrik Ibsen.” – dr. Alin Văcean, manager al Filarmonicii de Stat Arad.
Extracts of acompaniment music composed for Henrik Ibsen’s drama, the two secondary productions – op. 46 and op. 54 reveal a surprising orchestral music, allowing the public much more than a glimpse to one of the most spectacular pieces in universal musical literature.
As a preface to the renown nordic tableaus, the symphonic ensemble resumes Symphony no. 100, Military (1794) by Joseph Haydn, the greatest accomplishment gained during the composer’s two trips to London (1791 – 1792; 1794 – 1795), the conducting performance and orchestral achievement being demonstrated once more through these opuses with an impact on the auditory and on interpeters from around the world.
Portrait – Nicolae Mihai Brânzeu
Nicolae Mihai Brânzeu, director, founding member of Ioan Slavici Literary Circle of Arad, member of Arad Association for Cultural Openings, has achieved his BA and MA at Gheorghe Dima Musical Academy from Cluj-Napoca, specialising in Spectacle Arts – directing. Between 2006-2009, he collaborated with The Romanian Opera from Cluj-Napoca, whereas between 2004-2015 he coordinated musical an theatrical events on the stages in Arad, Cluj-Napoca and Timisoara.
Since 2009, he has been teaching various classes of actor’s art, art therapy and personal development, under the aegis of Arad Academic Centre or within various international projects, such as Grundvig, available to both students and teachers. Nicolae-Mihai Brânzeu is also the co-author of a number of specialty books and articles published within national and international symposiums.
Director Nicolae Mihai Brânzeu has has successful collaboration with Ioan Slavici Classical Theatre of Arad, as theatrical stagings such as La Serva Padrona, Dush(i) cu Preshu’ (adapted after Ion Baiesu), The Enlightened Week (after Mihail Saulescu) bear his signature.
On the scene in Arad, he staged opera shows such as: Red Riding Hood and her friends – feeric operetta, L’ Elisir d’amore by Gaetano Donizetti, Madama Butterfly, Tosca by Giacomo Puccini and the musical William de Shirley Askew. The short films I can do it (2013) and Acting and play (2015) add up to the young director’s performances.
In the year of 2010, he receives the Title of Excelence, granted by Arad City Hall as a sign of recognition and appraisal of his professional activity and for his constant preoccupation with promoting the image of Arad.
