Program:
- Jean Desfontaines - Psalm 74/75
- Michel Richard de Lalande - Leçon du Mercredy St.
- Girolamo Frescobaldi - Messa della Domenica dai 'Fiori Musicali'
Admission free!
concert start: 18:00 pm
audience entry: 17:30 pm
Soprano Mihaela Buhaiciuc is currently a full-time voice faculty at Transilvania University of Brasov, where she coordinated the vocal performance area between 2013-2023. Buhaiciuc toured and performed across the U.S.A. and Europe; collaborated with Mobile Opera, Alabama; Stony Brook Opera of SBU New York, South Florida Lyric Opera Co., and Brasov Opera, Romania. In 2011 she premiered at Weill Hall - Carnegie Hall with Altaïr Ensemble the chamber opera Strigoaicaria by Swiss composer, Thierry Besançon. She was part of the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players, New York where she performed Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich and numerous premieres by young living composers. In this framework she has worked with conductors Hal France, Timothy Long, Eduardo Leandro, and Paul Hostetter. Her most recent performances include Xenakis's Akanthos for soprano and 8 instruments, Cãtãlin Cretu's I.X. @100 for Soprano and tape presented for the Brasov-Braila International Xenakis Conference and Festival in 2022. In 2023 she performed in Bucharest along with the KlanFar-Kommentar, a Brasov based avantgarde ensemble, works by Laurentiu Beldean, Adrian Borza, Violeta Dinescu, Laura Manolache and Marios Joannou Elia.
Her operatic repertoire includes roles as Haendel’s Nerone, Britten’s Miles, Mrs. Hayes - Floyd’s Suzannah, Mozart’s Susanna, Despina, Zerlina; Bizet’s Micaela; Donizetti’s Norina, Seur Constance - Poulenc’s Dialogue Dialogue of Carmelites, La Princess - Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortileges, chamber music and vocal-symphonic under conductors: David Lawton, Andy Anderson, Theresa Cheung and Jeffrey Reed. In 2019 Buhaiciuc performed the Hymn of Martyr Bishops at the Divine Liturgy of Pope Francis held on the Field of Liberty, at Blaj, Romania.
She was awarded the Ackerman Award by New York Foundation (2003), the Neumiller Voice Scholarship Award by the Stony Brook University, New York (2007); and the Megginson Research Award from the University of Mobile (2010), where she was a full-time voice faculty between 2007-2012. She presented works at the Royal Academy of Music in London, UK (2010); at the International Academic Forum, Osaka, Japan (2010); at the International Congress of Voice Teachers, Paris (2009) and Vienna (2022); George Enesco International Festival, New York City (2005) and Bucharest (2021). Buhaiciuc holds a Master’s and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in vocal performance - under mezzosoprano Elaine Bonazzi - from Stony Brook University, New York, where she also taught as a teaching assistant for five years.
Szabó S. L. Levente is a graduate of Gh. Dima Music Academy from Cluj-Napoca, Romania majoring in concert organ performance, with a minor in piano performance. His repertoire for organ includes works by Rheinberger, Reger, Ritter, Liszt, Messiaen, Frescobaldi, Buxtehude, Bach, and Rameau. Szabó has been a chamber music performer, working with local and international ensembles, solo-instrumentalists and singers. His teachers were: Erich Türk and Ursula Philippi. He had the privilege of working in masterclasses with mentors such as: Lorenzo Ghielmi (Academie d’Orgue de Fribourg, Switzerland), Christoph Bossert (Musikhochschule Trossingen, Germany) and Robert Levin (Harvard Music Department, USA).
Levente has transcribed for voice and organ all Telemann’s solo cantatas of the 1725-6 and 1731-32 liturgical years, a first collection being published in 2017 and co-authored with Mihaela. His first published composition was Ecce Sacerdos Magnus, a motet for Male Chorus and organ, followed later by Psalm 49 for voice solo, mixt chorus and orchestra. Beside his music degree, Levente holds degrees in Roman-Catholic theology, his interests and studies extending from liturgical music to medieval philosophy, history and languages. He is currently organ professor and collaborative pianist at the Plugor Sandor High School, a Magnet School in music performance in Saint George, Transylvania.
