Founded in 2006 by the violist Razvan Popovici, in only four years the SoNoRo Festival has developed into one of the most exciting and innovative music festivals in Eastern Europe. Bucharest, the capital city of Romania, is the home of the festival. The concerts take place in renowned concert halls as well as in clubs, museums and other unusual locations, underlining the creative and adventurous spirit of this young cultural initiative. So far the festival has released two highly acclaimed CD’s – Songs and Dances of Life and The Seasons and the photography album SoNoRo – Imagining Music by Serban Mestecaneanu. This year we also created two sorts of the very special SoNoRo wine.

Another very important part of the SoNoRo project is SoNoRo – INTERFERENCES, a programme dedicated to the most talented young Romanian musicians. Every year around twenty scholarships are awarded. The SoNoRo Festival regularly goes on tour, performing in other major Romanian cities like Cluj-Napoca, Sibiu, Timisoara and Iasi. At the SoNoRo, Ensemble Raro, the ensemble in residence of the Festival, performs with some of the most appreciated and loved musicians from all over the world, including Konstantin Lifschitz, Daishin Kashimoto, Mark Padmore, Mihaela Ursuleasa, Gilles Apap, Reto Bieri, Alexander Chaushian, Carolin Widmann, Priya Mitchell, Marcelo Nisinman, Corinne Chapelle and Adrian Brendel.