The George Enescu International Festival presents, as part of this year’s edition, a new format for showcasing classical and contemporary music: the Enescu – JTI Immersive Experience series, hosted at MINA – the Museum of New Immersive Art.

This absolute premiere for the festival signals an openness to new ways of artistic reception, where music, visuals, and movement meet in a complex sensory environment. From August 24 to September 21, 2025, every Thursday and Friday at 8:00 PM, the public will be able to experience performances presented in four distinct artistic formats, each designed as a synesthetic experience in which music is not only heard but also seen and lived.

In a cultural landscape marked by rapid changes and increasingly fragmented attention, the Enescu Festival responds to contemporary challenges with an innovative artistic proposal: the audience is invited not just to listen, but to participate, to explore, to become emotionally involved in a space where sound, image, and movement merge into a coherent whole.

This new direction is not a rupture with tradition but an extension of it into the realm of new technologies and emerging forms of artistic expression. The immersive concert series is, in this sense, a natural and bold step—one that maintains its ties with tradition while opening it toward the future, bringing together classical heritage and the voice of the present: young artists who give new life to universal music, in tune with their time.

The first immersive concert-show in the Enescu – JTI Immersive Experience series will take place on August 28 and 29, 2025. ONIRIUS, a show envisioned by Gigi Căciuleanu, blends contemporary dance, immersive projection, and scenic poetry in a project signed by the celebrated choreographer. In Onirius, dance intersects with visual art and original music composed by Paul Ilea, in a stage composition of remarkable sensitivity; the projections by Les Ateliers Nomad create a kaleidoscopic universe where movement takes on dreamlike and metaphysical dimensions.

BACH IN THE JUNGLE will take place on September 4 and 5, 2025, at 8:00 PM. This spectacular concert places Bach's sonatas in an original visual and sonic context: the tropical jungle. Violinist Leticia Moreno and bandoneonist Claudio Constantini reinterpret Baroque music through a South American lens, in a fusion of eras and styles—from Johann Sebastian Bach to Heitor Villa-Lobos and Astor Piazzolla.

On September 11 and 12, 2025, pianist Alexandra Silocea will present the project KLIMT MEETS BÖSENDORFER – Ver Sacrum. Inspired by the aesthetics of the Viennese Secession, the recital builds a bridge between Gustav Klimt’s paintings and chamber music. Pianist Alexandra Silocea and mezzo-soprano Patricia Nolz create a refined atmosphere where the sound of the piano intertwines with symbolist imagery. The concert will be performed on a Bösendorfer-Klimt piano, an impressive instrument both acoustically and visually.

The final immersive concert in the series is ULTIMA PIESĂ – an immersive performance by Constantin Basica, taking place on September 18 and 19, 2025. This boundary-pushing work lies between composition, installation, and conceptual art. The concert offers a reflection on ephemerality and renewal, in a musical language generated algorithmically and supported by a dynamic and suggestive visual environment. Contemporary music is transformed into a performative installation that reimagines the very idea of a concert.

MINA – the Museum of New Immersive Art is a space dedicated to new forms of visual and sound expression. Equipped with cutting-edge 360° panoramic projection technology, MINA provides the ideal setting for artistic experiments that transcend traditional stage conventions.

This new series within the Enescu Festival program was specially designed to attract a wide range of audiences: younger audiences have the opportunity to discover classical music in a contemporary, interactive, and accessible format, while long-time audiences are invited to explore a new dimension of artistic expression. Thus, for tomorrow’s creators, the Enescu – JTI Immersive Experience series becomes a space for experimentation and reimagination.

Tickets for the George Enescu International Festival concerts are available both online via the Eventim.ro platform https://www.cts.eventim.ro/artist/festivalul-george-enescu and physically, at Carrefour hypermarkets and in Cărturești and Humanitas bookstore chains.

The George Enescu International Festival is one of the largest classical music events in the world, held since 1958. The 27th edition takes place between August 24 and September 21, 2025, and marks 70 years since the death of the great Romanian composer and musician George Enescu. This year’s theme is "Anniversaries / Celebrations", and the program includes over 100 concerts performed by more than 4,000 of the world’s most renowned artists, bringing to the forefront both Enescu’s artistic legacy and his profound impact on universal classical music.

Written by News.ro | 23 iulie 2025, 16:50