The Raro Ensemble will perform on 4 December at the prestigious Carnegie Hall in New York, an event celebrating Romania’s National Day and 20 years of the SoNoRo International Chamber Music Festival.

In 2025, the SoNoRo Festival will return for the fourth time to Carnegie Hall after marking its fifth, tenth and fifteenth editions in the same venue, the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York announced in a press release sent to AGERPRES on Thursday.

Scheduled for 20:00, the anniversary concert will be given by the Raro Ensemble, made up of Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin), Razvan Popovici (viola), Justus Grimm (cello) and Diana Ketler (piano). The programme will include works by George Enescu, ‘Aubade’ and the Piano Quartet in D major No. 1, as well as Johannes Brahms’s Piano Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 26.

The concert is part of the extensive international tour SoNoRo On Tour 2025, also supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute, and marks the conclusion of a series of thirteen performances held in eight countries. This year’s tour opened with a Preludio at the Colón Theatre in Buenos Aires, continued with a Launch Concert at the Romanian Athenaeum and included appearances in Belgium, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Spain. The concert at Carnegie Hall will officially close this anniversary edition.

Event details and further information about the project can be found on the Romanian Cultural Institute New York website at https://www.rciusa.info/events/raro-ensemble-in-jubilee-concert-at-carnegie-hall.

Founded in 2006 by violist Razvan Popovici and pianist Diana Ketler, the SoNoRo Festival has grown into one of Eastern Europe’s most refined and admired chamber music platforms.

Over the past two decades SoNoRo has performed in some of the world’s most prestigious halls, including Carnegie Hall in New York, the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, Wigmore Hall in London, Bozar in Brussels, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Suntory Hall in Tokyo and the Kennedy Center in Washington.

The festival’s international expansion led to the creation of SoNoRo On Tour, which over thirteen years has travelled through fifteen countries on three continents, strengthening SoNoRo’s reputation as an outstanding cultural ambassador for Romania. AGERPRES (RO – writing by: Daniel Popescu; EN – writing by: Adina Panaitescu)