Traditional Festival “Martisor” to be held in Chisinau

On March 1, the International Music Festival “Martisor” will be officially inaugurated for the 41st consecutive year at the National Palace in Chisinau, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the main particularity of the Festival’s present issue is the fact that its opening coincides with the 70th birth anniversary of the academician and composer Eugen Doga. Thus, the inauguration spectacle “Destin in do major” (“Destiny in C major”) is dedicated to the illustrious composer who, along with a number of singers, will participate in the spectacle. The organisers say that this year’s issue of “Martisor” Festival will be a traditional one – a symbiosis between different music genres, with the participation of singers from Moldova and abroad. Artists and academic, pop, folk, jazz music bands from 12 countries of the world, among which Romania, Germany, Austria, Poland, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Lithuania, Italy and Turkey, will arrive this year in Chisinau. Singers and bands such as Marcel Pavel, Maxim Galkin, Pepe, Dima Bilan, “Dekameron”, Liana Iskaridze, “Transilvania” folk group, Anastasia Lazariuc, Olga Ciolacu, Academic Folk Dance Ensamble “Joc”, “Lautarii” will perform. The conductor of the “Doina” Choral Group Veronica Garstea will celebrate her 80th birth anniversary, and “Millenium” Band its 10th anniversary of foundation. The festival consists of about 40 spectacles in Chisinau and another 50 across Moldova. “Martisor” Festival was founded in 1966 by former director of the National Philharmonics Alexandru Fedcu and stage director Gleb Ceaicovschi as a Gala of authentic talents.