Note senza tempo festival 2025

CIPRIANA SMARANDESCU – Harpsichord 

She began her musical studies at the age of four and a half, giving her first concerts and entering competitions at a young age. After completing her studies at the music high school, she obtained both her diploma and master’s degree (with highest honors, 10/10 cum laude) in various conservatories, studying with Patrizia Marisaldi (Vicenza) and Ogneanca Lefterescu (Bucharest), and further refining her skills with Ton Koopman, Andreas Staier, Patrick Ayrton, and Pierre Hantaï. 

She won several competitions, including those in Milan (Umanitaria) and Pesaro (G. Gambi), and was awarded diplomas of participation at the international competitions of Leipzig (J.S. Bach) and Bruges. 

She has performed extensively in Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Romania, in venues and festivals such as Auditorium Parco della Musica, Oratorio del Gonfalone, Urbino Musica Antica, Accademia di Romania, Pietà de’ Turchini, Festival dei Due Mondi, Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte di Montepulciano, the J.S. Bach Festival in Florence, Wanda Landowska Festival, Note senza tempo Festival, Music for Life – Emergency, CESMA in Lugano, Real Academia de San Fernando, Musique Ancienne à Saint Paul, Mozarteum Academy, Bach-250 Festival in Bucharest, Romanian National Radio, “G. Enescu” Philharmonic, Miercurea Ciuc Early Music Festival, La Stravaganza Festival, Musica Barcensis. She has recorded for Brilliant Classics, Aliusmodum Records, Continuo Records, Sarx Records, Romanian Radio Broadcasting, Vatican Radio, among others. 

As a soloist she has recorded two CDs: Inventions, Sinfonias and Six Little Preludes by J.S. Bach (2009), and Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach together with baritone Furio Zanasi (2015). 

She is a founding member of the ensemble Dolci Accenti and, together with Andrea Riderelli, co-founded both the ensemble aliusmodum and AYHA. 

She holds both a degree and a master’s in musicology, with theses on “The Harpsichord Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti” and “The Sonata from the Baroque to the Classical Period.” She has collaborated as a music critic with several music journals and worked as an editor for the music channel of the Romanian National Radio in Bucharest, as well as teaching harmony and counterpoint at the National University of Music in Bucharest. 

She currently teaches in Rome and in various masterclasses (Rome, Urbino, Thiene, Sassari, Orte, Saracinesco, Anguillara). Her students regularly perform in concerts and have won numerous competitions. She also serves as a jury member in several international competitions. 

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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Goldberg-Variationen
Aria mit verschiedenen Veränderungen BWV 988

Aria

Variatio 1. a 1 Clav.

Variatio 2. a 1 Clav.

Variatio 3. Canone all' Unisuono a 1 Clav.

Variatio 4. a 1 Clav.

Variatio 5. a 1 ô vero 2 Clav.

Variatio 6. Canone alla Seconda a 1 Clav.

Variatio 7. a 1 ô vero 2 Clav. al tempo di Giga

Variatio 8. a 2 Clav.

Variatio 9. Canone alla Terza a 1 Clav.

Variatio 10. Fugette a 1 Clav.

Variatio 11. a 2 Clav.

Variatio 12. Canone alla Quarta [a 1 Clav.]

Variatio 13. a 2 Clav.

Variatio 14. a 2 Clav.

Variatio 15. Canone alla Quinta [a 1 Clav.] Andante

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Variatio 16. Ouverture a 1 Clav.

Variatio 17. a 2 Clav.

Variatio 18. Canone alla Sexta a 1 Clav.

Variatio 19. a 1 Clav.

Variatio 20. a 2 Clav.

Variatio 21. Canone alla Settima [a 1 Clav.]

Variatio 22. a 1 Clav.

Variatio 23. a 2 Clav.

Variatio 24. Canone all' Ottava a 1 Clav.

Variatio 25. a 2 Clav.

Variatio 26. a 2 Clav.

Variatio 27. Canone alla Nona a 2 Clav.

Variatio 28. a 2 Clav.

Variatio 29. a 1 ô vero 2 Clav.

Variatio 30. Quodlibet a 1 Clav.

Aria: da Capo

Sassari, Sala Sassu del conservatorio di musica
Luigi Canepa
ore 19,00.