dUO GiampaOlO bandini & cesare chiacchiaretta 22 August, at 07:00 pmProtestant Church (22 Mihail Kogălniceanu Street)

The guitar and bandoneon duo, Giam-paolo Bandini - Cesare Chiacchiaretta, was founded in 2002 with the precise aim to present the music coming from Argentina through the charm and fascination of its most representative instruments.Invited by the most important festivals and theatres all over the world, the duo gained everywhere an extraordinary

approval of audience and critics. They had the big honour to play the Double Concerto “Hommage a Liegi” by Astor Piazzolla conducted by Maestro Leo Brouwer in Auditorium Paganini of Parma and for Unione Musicale of Turin with the well-known chamber orchestra “I Virtuosi di Mosca”, conducted by Pavel Berman.

In 2004, the duo wins the Award “Beniamino Joppolo” Città di Patti (Messina) for the great artistic values reached in the music field.In 1995, the duo had its debut in the prestigious Great Hall of San Petersburg Philharmonic, gaining such a big success to be immediately invited the following two years. Their specific feature to live the music with no borders brings them work together with world-known artists and musicians.

Their first CD, “Hombres de Tango” was sold in more than ten thousand copies and has been welcomed with great enthusiasm from the specialized critics.

As teachers, besides being invited by the most famous Academies and Universities, they regularly teach in the Institutes of High Educa-tion “Luigi Boccherini” in Lucca and “Tito Schipa” in Lecce and in the summer Festivals of Gubbio and Portogruaro.

Program:NUBES DE BUENoS aIrES

astor Piazzolla (1921 – 1992)Bandoneon, Ave Maria, Zita

Fernando TavolaroMilonga No. 5

(dedicated to the duo Bandini-Chiacchiaretta)angel Villoldo (1861 – 1919)

El Choclomaximo Diego Pujol (b. 1957)

Nubes de Buenos Aires——

astor Piazzolla (1921 – 1992)from “Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas”

Verano Porteño, Invierno PorteñoTomás gubitsch (b. 1957)

Villa Luroastor Piazzolla (1921 – 1992)

Escualo, Oblivion, Libertango

dUO melis20 August, at 07:00 pmProtestant Church (22 Mihail Kogălniceanu Street)

Susana Prieto and Alexis Muzurakis made their debut as the Guitar Duo Melis in 1999 at the International Guitar Festival of Volos (Greece). Since then they have performed in such prestigious halls as the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Concertgebouw in Am-sterdam, the Megaron in Athens and the Merkin Concert Hall in New York. They have been invited to play concerts

and give master classes in international guitar festivals in Europe and America. Since 2005 they teach at the Conservatoire National de Région de Strasbourg.

In 2003 Susana and Alexis recorded their first CD after winning the recording prize “Citta di Verona” at the International Chamber Music Competition “Gaetano Zinetti” (Italy). In 2005 they successfully auditioned for the Yehudi Menuhin Society “Live Music Now”.

The Guitar Duo Melis has collaborated with international orches-tras like the Berliner Symphoniker, the Neubrandenburger Philhar-monie, the Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie, the Radio Orchestra of Bucharest and the National Orchestra of Thessaloniki conducted by Leo Brouwer.

Their wide repertory spans from baroque music to the music of A. Piazzolla and A. Ginastera. As well as their modern concert guitars they use period instruments to perform the XIX century repertory and they devote themselves to historical researches on the performing praxis of that period.

Program: manuel de Falla ( 1876 – 1946)

Danza Española N° 2 from “La Vida Breve“ *Danza de los Vecinos from “El Sombrero de Tres Picos” *Danza de la Molinera from “El Sombrero de Tres Picos” *

antoine de Lhoyer (1768 – 1840)Duo N° 1. Op. 31

I. Moderato. Allegro brillante, II. Adagio cantabile, III. Rondoastor Piazzolla (1921 – 1992)

Otoño Porteño*——

Claude-Bénigne Balbastre (1727-1799)La de Caze*

La D’Héricourt*La Suzanne*

mario Castelnuovo–Tedesco (1895-1968)Sonatina Canonica

alberto Evaristo ginastera (1916-1983)Danzas argentinas*

I. Danza del viejo boyero, II. Danza de la moza dolosa III. Danza del gaucho matrero

*transcriptions by Alexis Muzurakis & Susana Prieto

www.trans i lvan iagu i tar .ro

Gerhard reichenbach18 August, at 07:00 pmProtestant Church (22 Mihail Kogălniceanu Street)

Born in 1965, Gerhard Reichenbach is considered by experts and the international press as one of the leading European guitar virtuosos of his generation. His solo perform-ances and appearances together with orchestras are highlights of classical guitar performance and his playing is compared with masters of the guitar like A. Segovia and John Williams.

He studied guitar at the Cologne Music Academy/department Wup-pertal with Prof. Dieter Kreidler and at the Athens Conservatory with Kostas Kotsiolis. His debut performance was a solo recital in Dussel-dorf at the age of 15.

Since then until now Gerhard has an important and very success-ful carrier, being invited for solo recitals to places like the Berliner Philharmonie, the Saal Bulgaria, Sofia, the Megaro Mousikis in Thessaloniki (Greece), the Philharmonics of Tallinn, Tartu and Parnu (Estland), the Gavle Philharmonic (Sweden), the Forum Gitarre Vienna, and many more.

In 2000, the celebrational year of J.S.Bach, he gave a three weekend lecture about the lute works by J.S. Bach. In this lecture he analyzed and performed all the lute works on the classical guitar.

Apart from giving master classes and lessons, Gerhard Reichen-bach taught from 1994 up to 2000 at the Guitar Department of the Music Academy “Franz Liszt” in Weimar.

Program:Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)

Suite d-minor, BWV 823 *Prelude, Sarabande, Gigue, Double (comp. by G. Reichenbach)

georg Phillip Telemann (1681 – 1767)Solo F-Major *

(after the Sonata for Viola da Gamba solo)Adagio, Vivace, Recitativo-Andante, Vivace

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)Partita E-Flat Major, BWV 825 *

(after the 1st Clavierpartita)Präludium, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Menuett 1&2, Giga

——giulio regondi (1822 – 1872)

Air varie de Bellini“I Montecchi e I Capuleti”

Wolfgang amadeus mozart (1756 – 1791)Larghetto and Allegro D-Major, KV 229**

giulio regondi (1822 – 1872)Introduction e Caprice, op.23

* transcription by Gerhard Reichenbach** transcription by Julian Bream

dUO iOrdache19 August, at 07:00 pmCluj-Napoca Municipal House of Culture (24 Unirii Square)

The Guitar Duo Ana-Maria IORDACHE - Mihaela IORDACHE is the laureate of the sixth edition International Guitar Chamber Music Competition.

Ana-Maria Iordache is studying guitar with professor Eugen Mang since she was 6 years old. Ana-Maria has won numerous national and international competitions, including first prize in the 2006 Andres Segovia European

Competition for Young Guitarists (Velbert, Germany), first prize in the 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006 Sinaia International Guitar Festival (Roma-nia), first prize in the 2006 Transilvania International Guitar Festival (Romania), first prize in the 2008 Targu-Mures International Guitar Competition (Romania).

Mihaela Iordache is also studying guitar with professor Eugen Mang since she was 9 years old. Her talent was acknowledged during numerous competitions, like Alba-Iulia Guitar Festival (second prize, 2003 and 2006), Sinaia International Guitar Festival (third prize, 2000 and 2003), Garabet Avachian National Performance Competition (third prize, 2003).

The two sisters attended the master classess of Alvaro Pierri (Uruguay), Costas Cotsiolis (Greece), Thomas Kirchhoff (Germany), Roth Ede (Hungary), Jorgos Panetsos (Greece), Gabriel Bianco (France), Pavlovits Dávid (Hungary), Podhorszky Gábor (Hungary), Pusztai Antal (Hungary), Marko Feri (Italy), Giampaolo Bandini (Italy), Goran Krivokapic (Iugoslavia) etc.

Program: antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741)

Andantemáximo Diego Pujol (b. 1957)

Café Para DosFerdinando Carulli (1770 – 1841)

Serenata II in Re maggiore op. 96manuel maría Ponce (1882 – 1948)

Intermezzomáximo Diego Pujol (b. 1957)

Tango, Milonga y Final

harOld GrettOn19 August, at 08:00 pmCluj-Napoca Municipal House of Culture (24 Unirii Square)

Harold Gretton began playing guitar at the age of 7. In 2001 he started his Bach-elor of Music studies at the Australian National University (ANU) School of Music which he completed with first-class honours in 2006. He was awarded the Bernhard Neumann prize for most outstanding graduate. He is presently a PhD candidate at the ANU School of Music.

Harold has won numerous national and international competi-tions, including first prize in the 2007 Vienna Guitar Forum - Interna-tional Guitar Competition (Austria), first prize in the 2007 Cordoba Guitar Festival - International Guitar Competition (Spain), first prize in the 2008 Coria International Guitar Competition (Spain), first prize in the 2008 Transilvania International Guitar Competition (Romania), first prize in the 10th Sernancelhe International Guitar Competition (Portugal, 2008), and first prize in the International Competition of 20th Century Guitar Music Interpretation in Lagonegro (Italy, 2006). He was awarded second prize in the 51st Tokyo International Guitar Competi-tion (2008).

He has performed concerts at the ORF RadioKulturhaus (Austria), at the Cordoba Guitar Festival (Spain), at the Mikulov Guitar Festival (Czech Republic), at the Vienna Guitar Forum (Austria), at the Niksic Guitar Festival (Montenegro), at the Targu Mures Guitar Festival (Ro-mania), at the Darwin International Guitar Festival, at the 2006 Sydney Classical Guitar Society Summer School, for the Saigon Guitar Society (Vietnam), amongst others. Since 2006 he has been a member of the Canberra-based guitar quartet Guitar Trek.

In 2008 he was invited to perform with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra, at the Annual Proms Concert, conducted by Nicholas Milton.

Program: Napoléon Coste (1806 – 1883)

Rondeau de Concert op.12Leo Brouwer (b. 1939)

La Ciudad de las Columnas (Varaciones sobre Pieza sin título No.1)

1. Introduccíon, 2. Pieza sin título no.1: “Andar La Habana”, 3. “Paseo” – “La Ceiba y el Colibrí”, 4. “Convento de San Francisco”, 5. “2 Paseo” – “Por la Calle del Obispo” , 6. “Amanecer en el Morro”,

7. “Toque en la Plaza de Armas”antonio José (1902 – 1936)

Sonata para guitarra I. Allegro Moderato, II. Minueto, III. Pavana triste, IV. Final

GyörGy lörinczi cOnference & recital20 August, at 04:00 pmCluj-Napoca Municipal House of Culture (24 Unirii Square)

Born on March 8, 1956 in Viforoasa (Mureş), György Lörinczi began his guitar studies at the age of 18. He participated to some of the earliest editions of Sinaia Guitar Festival, where he receives “Honourable Mention” in 1984. Being also a jazz enthusiast, he was awarded the “Promotion Diploma” of Sibiu Jazz Festival, in 1984.

György Lörinczi studied and practiced geology until 1991, when, after several visits to Belgium and France, he decides to study lutes and their construction. In 2004 Györ-gy Lörinczi participated to Jonathan Edwards Lute Summer Classes in Gruyères (France). He received professional recognition from luthiers like Jonathan Rubin (Switzerland), Lieven Misschaert (Belgium), Xavier Cauhépé (France) or István Kónya (Hungary).

György Lörinczi makes early plucked string instruments, includ-ing a large range of Lutes, Vihuelas, Theorbos and Baroque and Renaissance Guitars. He is a member of the Lute Society (England) and, beginning with 1995, he teaches classical guitar in Târgu Mureş Art School.

Program:

anthony Holborne — Fairy Round Galliardmarco dall aquila — Fantaisie 10marco dall aquila — Fantaisie 7anonym — Go From My Window

anonym — Kemp’s Jiganonym — Wilson’s Wilde

Francesco da milano — Fantaisie 58John Dowland — Mrs.White Nothing

John Dowland — Dr.Case’s PavanJohn Dowland — Mrs. Winter’s Jump

John Dowland — FantasieSimone molinaro — Fantasia PrimaSimone molinaro — Fantasia Quinta

Luis de Narváez — Fantasia del quarto tonoLuis de Narváez — El Primer Tono

Luis de Narváez — Je veux laysser melancolie