The Romania in Music programme of the Instituto Cultural Rumano of Madrid, in collaboration with the Real Academia de Bellas Artes San Fernando, is organising, as the first event of the year, a concert by the duo (pictured) formed by the violinist Clara Cernat and the pianist Thierry Huillet tomorrow, Tuesday, at 12 noon. Free admission until full capacity is reached.
Clara Cernat is one of the most representative artists of the great Romanian violin school. Cernat was a pupil of Stefan Gheorghiu at the Academy of Music in Bucharest, and has also received training in Germany and Switzerland. She is currently a tenured professor at the Toulouse Conservatory (France) and regularly gives master classes in violin and viola. Thierry Huillet trained as a pianist at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, with Pierre Sancan and Germaine Mounier. He is currently a full professor at the Conservatoire de Toulouse (France) and often participates in piano master classes and juries.
Folk-inspired Spanish classical music is present in the form of Isaac Albéniz’s famous piece Asturias and Manuel de Falla’s seductive Suite popular española. Romanian music shines through Ciprian Porumbescu’s iconic Balada, George Enescu’s Airs dans le genre roumain and the virtuosic Romanian rhapsodies of Thierry Huillet, a famous French composer who will also be the pianist at this concert.
