Billions of listeners and viewers will follow the Romanian Radio National Orchestra

The Romanian Radio National Orchestra has been invited to attend a major musical event: World Summit on Media for Children, where, on September 9th and September 10th 2014, the Romanian artists will be welcomed by the audience from Kuala Lumpur.

Radio România, 05.09.2014, 20:57

The Romanian Radio public broadcaster has been in the last years a true cultural ambassador of Romania in the Asian area through the tours undertaken by the Romanian Radio Orchestras and Choirs in such countries as Japan, China and, from September 2014, Malaysia. The Romanian Radio National Orchestra has been invited to attend a major musical event: World Summit on Media for Children, where, on

September 9th and September 10th 2014, the Romanian artists will be welcomed by the audience from Kuala Lumpur — the capital of Malaysia.

According to the organizers of the event, the two concerts performed by the Romanian Radio National Orchestra are the “main attraction” of the 7th edition of the summit. This is the first time that the international event is organized on the Asian continent, after Melbourne, London, Thessaloníki, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg and Karlstad.

The two concerts will be audio and video recorded by the public radio and TV broadcaster from Kuala Lumpur and will be broadcast by all members of ABU – Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union, reaching thusly a potential audience of several billions of listeners and viewers , in a geographic area which covers half of the planet. The tour is organized by Radio Romania and ABU.

The concerts will be held in the Kuala Lumpur Philharmonic Hall, hosted by the legendary Petronas towers, an emblematic building of the city, two twin skyscrapers which have been considered to be the highest building in the world from 1998 to 2004. The first concert, scheduled on September 9th, will be dedicated to the summit participants, while the second performance will be addressed to the wide audience.

The Romanian Radio National Orchestra will perform under the baton of TIBERIU SOARE, the principal conductor of the Romanian Radio Orchestras and Choirs, who has conducted the ensemble on all tours undertaken in the last seasons. The soloists of the two concerts will be GABRIEL CROITORU — violin and

HORIA MIHAIL — piano, two musicians widely acclaimed in numerous events held at the Romanian Radio Hall.

The programme will be a special one: two Romanian compositions, true “business cards” of the Romanian culture, namely the Rhapsody no. 1, Enescus famous work, and Ciocârlia, composed by Angheluş Dinicu and made famous by the exceptional performance and arrangement carried out by his nephew, violinist

Grigoraş Dinicu. Besides these two works, the Malaysian audience will also listen to several pieces from the international repertoire: the Swan Lake suite by Tchaikovsky, the Burleske for piano and orchestra, signed by Richard Strauss and the Gypsy Melodies, by the Spanish violinist and composer Pablo de Sarasate. The two concerts will also feature two original Malaysian compositions. The tour is organized with the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute.

OVIDIU MICULESCU, President Director General of Radio Romania: “We will go there to build a new bridge, a subtle and important one, between our European – rooted culture and the surprising Asia. When voices so different speak with so much love, generosity and talent the same language, which is music, we can say throughly that there is still hope for a better world”.

The participation of the Romanian National Radio Orchestra in Malaysia is an important step in the frame of extending Radio Romanias partnerships beyond the European Broadcasting Union.

“I think that this tour is important especially in terms of media. We are permanently focusing on maintaining our cultural and informative mission and this international attendance brings them together very well. We are speaking about an Asian media summit of great importance and about a concert which will be broadcast by the major Asian televisions, which reach potentially billions of listeners and viewers, therefore our artistic message will be multiplied”, stated Oltea Şerban — Pârâu, the artistic director of the Romanian Radio Orchestras and Choirs and director of Radio Romania Media Cultural Centre.

Organized between September 8th and September 10th, World Summit on Media for Children (WSMC) will have as main topic Mass-media for the 21st century children, will host 2000 participants and is organized by Asia — Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU), the Malaysian Radio Television and the WSMC Foundation.