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Nechifor returns to Switzerland in September 2010

posted Aug 28, 2010, 1:05 PM by Serban Serafimescu   [ updated Sep 23, 2010, 4:35 AM ]

Radu Nechifor is performing in Switzerland during September 2010, accompanied again by church organist Bernhard Hoerler.
Tour
These performances are part of his ongoing "Homage to Gheorghe Zamfir" tour. The dates and locations are:

- Monday, September 20, 20:00,  JESUITENKIRCHE, SOLOTHURN

- Wednesday, September 22, 20:00, STADTKIRCHE, WINTERTHUR  

- Monday, September 27, 20:00, STADTKIRCHE ST. GEORG, SURSEE

- Tuesday, September 28, 20:00, KIRCHE ST. MANGEN, ST. GALLEN


Nechifor opens for Zamfir in Geneva on June 2

posted May 20, 2010, 8:53 AM by Serban Serafimescu   [ updated May 20, 2010, 9:25 AM ]

Maestro Gheorghe Zamfir will play at the Victoria Hall in Geneva, Switzerland at 20:00 on June 2, 2010, accompanied on piano by Christiane Gugger.

Radu Nechifor will play in the debut of the concert.

Nechifor has played with Gheorghe Zamfir on several times in the past, and has visited Switzerland on many occasions, but now for the first time he will play in Switzerland on the same stage with his teacher and mentor.

Nechifor opens panflute workshop

posted Feb 23, 2010, 1:55 PM by Serban Serafimescu   [ updated Aug 28, 2010, 1:35 PM ]

At the end of 2008, Nechifor opened the doors of his personal panflute workshop, which he built with his own hands next to his home in Cisnadie. The event was honoured by the presence of Gheorghe Zamfir, his former panflute mentor.

You can learn more about Nechifor panflutes in The Panflute Shop.

January 2010 "Homage to Gheorghe Zamfir" Switzerland tour

posted Feb 23, 2010, 9:57 AM by Serban Serafimescu   [ updated Feb 23, 2010, 10:13 AM ]

Nechifor went on tour in Switzerland again at the beginning of 2010. He played in the Saint Michael Church in Zug and the Ref. Church in Rotkreuz with church organist  Bernhard Hoerler.

The two concerts were a follow-up to the 2009 "Homage to Gheorghe Zamfir" Switzerland tour.

Nechifor played the following songs (titles are in German and Romanian):

Lied aus Ardeal (Doina din Ardeal) 
Mondschein (Vitrail de Lune) 
Tanz des Iancu (Hora Lui Iancu) 
Das Herz (Inima) 
Tanz in G (Sirba in G) 
Das Mädchen mit dem Kleeblatt (Mocirita cu Trifoi) 
Im kleinen Dorf (In Micul Orasel) 
Mein armes Herz (Saraca Inima Mea) 
Ich wollte den Fluss Olt überqueren (Ma Dusei sa trec la Olt) 
Lied aus Moldavien (Chanson de Moldavie) 
Tanz mit der Flöte „Caval“ (Hora ca la Caval) 
Improvisation (Panflöte) 
Meine Geliebte aus Ciugud (Mindrea mea de la Ciugud) 
Lied des traurigen Hirten (Doina ciobanului Trist) 
Gheorghe führt den Ochsen gut (Gheorghe mina boii bine) 
Die Trauer der Erde (Le Deuil de la Terre)

Nechifor launched his first album, "Panflute Essence"

posted Feb 22, 2010, 4:08 AM by Serban Serafimescu   [ updated Feb 23, 2010, 9:30 AM ]

Esenţă de Nai (Panflute Essence), Radu Nechifor's debut album, is now available in stores in Romania.

The album contains a collection of instrumental folkloric songs from all historic regions of Romania. Travelling from the energy and joyfulness of the hora to the sublime emotions of the doina, Nechifor tries to synthesize in this album the essence of the sound of Romanian panflute.

Gheorghe Zamfir wrote about Esenţă de Nai : « Radu Nechifor's technique and interpretation on this disk are impeccable. The sound, tone are clear, warm, powerful, the staccati precise, the nouances beyond reproach. »

The following have played on this album beside Radu Nechifor: Costel Pandelescu (cimbalom), Nichita Constantin (string bass), Daniel Prodan (braci), Virgil Iancu (accordion), Vasile Alexandru (clarinet), Pancirel Constandache (trumpet), Adrian Belu (violin), Lucian Stoica (violin), Cornel Turcitu (violin), Marian Alexandru (conductor and violin).

2009 Switzerland Tour

posted Feb 22, 2010, 4:06 AM by Serban Serafimescu   [ updated Feb 23, 2010, 10:13 AM ]

Radu Nechifor performed Gheorghe Zamfir's songs, accompanied on church organ by Bernhard Hoerler, during September 2009 in Switzerland, in a tour entitled "Hommage a Gheorghe Zamfir". The dates and locations were:

Monday, 14.9.09, "Matthauskirche" church, Luzern
Wednesday, 16.09.09, "Sankt Martin" church, Olten
Saturday, 19.09.09, "ref. Kirche Schlieren" church, Schlieren
Monday, 21.09.09, "Martinskirche" church, Chur

The tour was organized by Joeri Murk, producer of the DAJOERI panflutes, founder of the DAJOERI panflute schools and organizer of the Arosa panflute festival.

2007 North American Tour

posted Feb 22, 2010, 2:01 AM by Serban Serafimescu   [ updated Feb 23, 2010, 9:28 AM ]

In November and December 2007, Radu Nechifor was on tour in the USA and Canada, where he was invited by some of the people who attended his shows in Canada in the summer of 2007.

Nechifor played in Canada in: Kitchener, Toronto, Windsor and London, and in the USA in Dallas, Texas and Houston, Texas, taking part in several events organized by the Romanian diaspora.

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