Tuesday October 24 th at 7:00 p.m.

Special concert:

“Sherban Lupu and the Peasant Virtuosos of Romania ”

A concert organized with the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute and the

Foundation for Communication Strategies

Location: Corcoran Gallery of Art

( 500 17th Street, NW , Washington DC 20006 )

Limited seats.

Please confirm participation at 202 332 4852 ext. 105 or at e-mail address rsvp@roembus.org

Please mention the title of the event, name, number of guests and phone number

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 v arious 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 Washington DC concert is part of a series of four in the United States , to be held in New York , Chicago , and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.