SoNoRo Talks & Concert
Intersections between music and literature
A dialogue between: Răzvan Popovici (viola player and executive director of the festival), Alex Moldovan (writer) și Valentin Răduțiu (cellist).
The discussion will be complemented with works by Louis Spohr, Antonin Dvořák and Jean Marie Leclair, performed by violinists Solenne Païdassi & Aylen Pritchin, violist Răzvan Popovici and the cellist Valentin Răduțiu.
Writer Alex Moldovan was born in 1977 in Cluj, where he still lives. He studied philosophy and has a master's degree in modern art theory, but he also worked as a manual laborer, weekend salesman and bookseller before becoming a translator. He has organized jazz concerts, plays the drums (badly) and volunteers for an animal welfare association. He enjoys pizza, meeting friends and music, and is not a fan of nature outings and humorless people. He holds creative writing workshops and if he finishes even a tenth of the books he's working on, he'll consider himself a satisfied man.
A dialogue between: Răzvan Popovici (viola player and executive director of the festival), Alex Moldovan (writer) și Valentin Răduțiu (cellist).
The discussion will be complemented with works by Louis Spohr, Antonin Dvořák and Jean Marie Leclair, performed by violinists Solenne Païdassi & Aylen Pritchin, violist Răzvan Popovici and the cellist Valentin Răduțiu.
Writer Alex Moldovan was born in 1977 in Cluj, where he still lives. He studied philosophy and has a master's degree in modern art theory, but he also worked as a manual laborer, weekend salesman and bookseller before becoming a translator. He has organized jazz concerts, plays the drums (badly) and volunteers for an animal welfare association. He enjoys pizza, meeting friends and music, and is not a fan of nature outings and humorless people. He holds creative writing workshops and if he finishes even a tenth of the books he's working on, he'll consider himself a satisfied man.
He debuted in 2016 with the volume Olguța and a Grandfather of Millions, a series that continues with Olguța and Operation Jaguar (2020), Olguța and the Great Unmasking (2021) and Olguța and the Orient Express Adventure (2024). In the meantime he has also written The Boy Who Could Bite His Nose and Stories to Read Under the Bench. He recently published the volume House, published by YoungArt Publishing House in 2023. His text "A Story with No Morals at All" appeared in the Romanian Language Textbook for 7th grade published by Art Klet. He has published in the magazines Fabulafia and The Order of Storytellers and in the anthologies Look Who's Talking, The More and More and Selfie. He was on the jury of the Arthur's Trophy and participated in the creative camp "Live in the Story". In 2021 he made his debut as a playwright with a dramatization of The Little Boy Who Could Bite His Nose staged by the Arcadia troupe of the Regina Maria Theatre in Oradea, and the first volume of the Olguța series was staged by the MiniReactor troupe in Cluj in 2023.
