Sherban Lupu and the Peasant Virtuosi of Romania:
classical violin joins world music


Celebrated violinist Sherban Lupu, one of the world’s leading performers of George Enescu’s music, is joined by traditional music virtuosi Grigore Chira, Ioan Pop and Gheorghe Stan on a contemporary revisiting of traditional Romanian music. Using a picturesque array of traditional instruments such as the cimbalom, the stroh violin, the folk fiddle, and various folk wind and percussion instruments, the Romanian musicians will be playing a broad of folk (mostly dance) music from various regions of Romania, in a subtle interplay between the classical and the folk style.

Sherban Lupu has also recorded, alongside a number of Romanian peasant musicians, a highly praised CD for the Electrecord label and has so far toured Romania and other European countries.

The New York concert is the first one in a series of four in the United States, to be held in Washington, Chicago, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.