Programme of the Miercurea Ciuc Early Music Festival
13–21 July 2024
Saturday, 13 July
Csíki Játékszín Theatre, Great Hall (6 Blvd Timișoarei)
18.00 Opening Ceremony of the Festival
18.30 MUSICA HISTORICA (Hungary): Early Hungarian Fun – Drinking and humorous songs with dance tunes (16th –19th centuries)
19.30 MÁRTA SEBESTYÉN & JUDIT ANDREJSZKI and their guests (Hungary, Romania): “Ritka kertben” (Rarely Seen in a Garden) – Hungarian music of centuries with a European perspective, from folk and written sources
Sunday, 14 July
Unitarian Church (25 Szász Endre Street)
11.30 ARS PRO TOTO (Romania): Musical Revival in 17th-century Religious Sung-poetry
Mikó Castle, Weapons room (2 Cetății Square)
16.30 Parallels and contrasts in the world of the wine – Transylvanian Wine Tasting, with the Vinkli Wine Store**
Mikó Castle (2 Cetății Square)*
19.00 INTO THE WINDS (France): Let there be Dance!
Monday, 15 July
Zengő Tér Cultural Center (35 Petőfi Street)
10.00 “With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles” – Musical activities for children, with Julcsi Ádám**
Nagy István Art School, hall (18 Libertății Square)
15.30 Homophonic psalms – Workshop led by András Szabó
Reformed Church (11 Márton Áron Street)
19.00 CONCERTO SPIRALIS (Romania, Hungary): Voices from 17th Century Chamber Music
Zengő Tér Cultural Center (35 Petőfi Street)
21.00 NICHOLAS PARLE (England): Spain, Italy & England – A Golden Age of Keyboard Music
Tuesday, 16 July
Zengő Tér Cultural Center (35 Petőfi Street)
10.00 “With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles” – Musical activities for children, with Julcsi Ádám**
Nagy István Art School, hall (18 Libertății Square)
15.30 Collection of songs by János Arany (1874) – lecture by Rumen István Csörsz
Franciscan Church of Șumuleu Ciuc – Basilica Minor Papalis (148 Szék Street)
19.30 MADÉFALVI SCHOLA & LUX AURUMQUE (Romania): Gregorian Chant in Contemporary Choral Music Literature
Wednesday, 17 July
Zengő Tér Cultural Center (35 Petőfi Street)
10.00 “With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles” – Musical activities for children, with Julcsi Ádám**
17.00 Round table conversations
| 17.00–18.30 | Dew and Pearls. The Babrik Heritage. The Early Music Movement in Transylvania and Hungary in the Seventies and Eighties. Moderator: Rumen István Csörsz |
| 18.30–19.00 | Dr. Klára Radnóti: The Heyday of European Lute Playing – Lutes of the Hungarian National Museum |
| 19.00–20.00 | “Az lantot pöngetni derék mesterség” (Picking the lute is a fine craft) – Conversation about the lute. Moderator: István Kónya |
Millennium Church (38 Kossuth Lajos Street)
21.00 ZSOMBOR TÓTH-VAJNA (Hungary): Keyboard Music of the Restoration Period in England
Thursday, 18 July
Cinema Csíki Mozi (2 Majláth Gusztáv Károly Square)
19.00 SEMPRE (Romania): Black & White – Vivaldi
Mikó Castle, Northwestern Bastion Hall (2 Cetății Square)
21.00 MÁRIA FÜLÖP & PIROSKA VITÁRIUS (Switzerland, Hungary): Discussions
Friday, 19 July
Nagy István Art School, hall (18 Libertății Square)
15.00 CLOSING CONCERT OF THE 16TH EARLY MUSIC SUMMER UNIVERSITY
Saint Augustine Church (1 Szent Ágoston Square)
19.30 BAROQUE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA (Romania, Hungary, Germany): Listen and hear
Saturday, 20 July
Mikó Castle (2 Cetății Square)
11.00 Children’s Renaissance Day: craft workshops and Renaissance games
Siculicidium – Saint Anne Chapel (746 Siculeni) 🚌
16.00 FLAUTO DOLCE (Romania) and GÁBOR HEGYI (Germany): Sinfonia Spirituosa – From Caioni to Sartorius
Mikó Castle (2 Cetății Square)*
18.30 CARMINA RENASCENTIA (Romania): Sicut cervus (‘As the deer pants for water…’)
19.30 CODEX (Romania): “A tudós macskája” (The Scientist’s cat) – Songs of János Arany
20.30 Renaissance dance event with Gábor Kovács
Sunday, 21 July
Henter Mansion (545 Sântimbru) 🚌
16.00 Early music picnic with the ensembles Codex and Musica Historica
* In case of bad weather, at the Csíki Játékszín Theatre, Great Hall (6 Blvd Timișoarei).
** Participation in this event is based on prior registration by calling +40 746 244 235 (Zengő Tér Cultural Center, Musical activities for children) and +40 753 055 311 (for wine tasting).
🚌 A bus will leave from the parking lot of the Erőss Zsolt Arena half an hour before the event.
Details at www.regizene.ro. The organizers reserve the right to make changes to the programme.