The Romanian Youth Orchestra triumphed to eight in Berlin, in the opening of the Young Euro Classic 2025 festival

The year, Romanian youth orchestra He will celebrate his “major”, the year of birth of the project of the youth orchestras of Romania being 2008.

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On August 1, 2025, the Romanian Youth Orchestra (Ort) held the opening concert of the festival Young Euro Classic from Berlin. It was for the eighth time that the Romanian orchestra was invited to hold a concert at one of the most important cultural events in the world dedicated to national youth orchestras, the festival Young Euro Classic Launching invitations only to the most valuable youth orchestras worldwide, the frequency of ORT participation confirming its elite ensemble in the European musical landscape.

The Romanian Youth Orchestra has opened Officially 2025 edition of the Konzerthaus Berlin – Mare Festival, within the section Europe in focus, At the desk, the young Austrian conductor Katharina Wincor was in the desk. The evening opened with the work Hore by Adrian Pop, which demanded complex the orchestral body both in times of solo and in the overall sound, under the firm leadership of the young conductor, whose speech was otherwise admirably supported by the concert-Master Theodor Andreescu, who managed to mobilize his colleagues.

The warm applause of an audience that filled the 1500 places of the Konzerthaus famous have rewarded the interpretation of the first work and gave even more courage to the young musicians, especially for the few for the first time on an international scene of such a major. The program continued in Crescendo to The concert for the violin and orchestra in the minor of Sibelius. The experience and violinist force of Cristina Goicea gave the end of the first part, the soloist displaying a very well controlled romance, a vision already mature, specific to a solo career whose international level is fully confirmed.

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The second part belonged Symphonic dances By Rachmaninov, a difficult orchestral work, which gave the measure of the real value of the young Romanian musicians, helped by the always careful gesture of the young conductor Katharina Wincor, but even more by the echo of the words of emotion full of Marin Cazacu and concert-Maestor Theodor Andreescu encountered in the affective plane the desire of every musician to give the best in this sublime effort that defines a symphonic orchestra.

At the end of the bis, o Hora Mărşorului Who raised the room, the young Romanian musicians seemed to understand what was happening to them. That is, something important, which represents everyone and each one and they will not forget all their lives.

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There is a lot to say about this success story, which is the project of the national youth orchestras of Romania, a project imagined by the cellist and Professor Marin Cazacu, who, together with conductor Cristian Mandeal-for the effective artistic training part-who were added many Romanian musicians, and has managed to change the level of the level. The Romanian Youth Orchestra, the first founded in 2008 and the most titled, is the only Romanian orchestra having notable and repeated presence on the most important concert scenes in Europe, along with others no less important in the United States and Asia.

Hard to say at the generation of young musicians. What is certain, however, is the fact that the current distribution has probably had the lowest average age of the eight presence so far at this formidable meeting of the best youth orchestras, which year -by -year dresses the cultural life of summer in holiday clothes, in the magnificent Konzerthaus.

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Even though it is now even more support for this fragile project, which has become a cultural value of Romania after 1989, the tiny core of people who assure its being continues to withstand, ensuring still a continuity of its “international” status.

It is of course about the founders of Marin Cazacu and Cristian Mandeal, to which is added in the last decade the small group of the National Art Center “Tinerimea Românî” coordinated in recent years by Dan Petre, its interim director, as well as the Foundation “Friends of the Music – Serafim Anthropov”.