PRESS RELEASE
The Romanian Chamber Orchestra at Teatro Massimo Palermo on June 3 for the 2026 Romania – Italia Cultural Year
Palermo, May 29 2026. The Romanian Chamber Orchestra, comprising some of Romania’s most prominent artists and conducted by Maestro Gabriel Bebeșelea, will mark the Romania–Italy Cultural Year 2026 with a musical celebration at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo.
The concert, scheduled on Wednesday 3 June at 8.30 pm, marks the return to the Teatro Massimo of pianist Daniel Ciobanu as a soloist, and inaugurates the first bilateral programme between the two countries, aimed at promoting the cultural, historical and European ties that unite Romania and Italy.
The musical programme offers a journey that links the musical traditions of Romania and Central Europe with the Italian tradition. The concert opens with Béla Bartók’s Romanian Folk Dances, arranged for string orchestra, before paying tribute to Giuseppe Verdi with a performance of the Allegro from the Quartet in E minor. This will be followed by Dinu Lipatti’s Concertino in Classical Style, Op. No. 3, a neoclassical composition featuring Daniel Ciobanu on the piano, concluding with George Enescu’s Octet, Op. No. 7, performed in Lawrence Foster’s arrangement for string orchestra.
The Romanian Chamber Orchestra was founded out of a desire among Romanian musicians living abroad to represent and promote Romania around the world through art and culture: a veritable ‘national ensemble’ comprising some of Romania’s most prominent artists.
Thanks to the calibre of its members and its contribution to the national heritage, the project has, in recent years, become a benchmark for Romanian culture and a cultural ambassador for Romania worldwide.
The concert is part of the programme for the “Romania–Italia Cultural Year 2026”, conceived and promoted by the Romanian Embassy in Italy in collaboration with the Ministries of Culture and Foreign Affairs of Italy and Romania, and with the Romanian Ministry of Defence.
The initiative is co-funded by the Department for Romanians Abroad, the Romanian Ministry of Culture and the Union of Performing Musicians of Romania (UCIMR), in partnership with the Romanian Embassy in Italy and Artexim.
The concert is open to the audience for free, subject to availability. Invitation tickets are available at the Teatro Massimo box office.
Info: https://www.teatromassimo.it/event/concerto-della-romanian-chamber-orchestra/
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