From orchestral managers and conductors, to laureate violinists to international festivals, Romanian artists are an alarm signal to the combination of music schools provided by the reform in education. Ciprian coveted about “catastrophes” generated by decisions made by people without artistic experience. For his part, violinist Stefan Aprodu warns that “if today, tomorrow this peace will become deafening”, and conductor Dragoș Tiberiu Oprea considers that the situation could be “a premeditated crime”.
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Ciprian Răvnic, manager of the Andante Youth Symphony Orchestra in Târgoviște and a violin teacher at the “Iosif Sava” Gymnasium School in Bucharest, draws attention to the risks involved in the reorganization of the artistic educational units provided by Law 141/2025.
“The merging of the vocational schools with those of another profile will lead to the disastrous situation in which other well-intentioned people, but without any experience in the management of cultural institutions, to make vital decisions that I do not know”, E, EXPPLICE CIPRIAN FREVNIC, for the truth.
He emphasizes that in the absence of specialized managers, “The attempt to reversal the roles would undoubtedly lead to catastrophes.” According to him, the concrete example of 2014, when for organizing a concert was forced to explain the need for general rehearsals in the showroom, shows the difference between the perception of a professional and that of a person outside the artistic environment.
In the last decade he has coordinated projects through the Sonoart Cultural Association, among which participations in the “George Enescu” International Festival and MRF Festivals Vienna. “The results obtained show that only through a management adapted to the artistic specificity can you reach performance”, he says.
“A system already shabby by the pandemic that showed that the online school does not work in the artistic disciplines will collapse completely unless a clear delimitation of the institutions will be made according to the profile of each and with their own management, consisting of the respective field”,, adds the manager.
Finally, he sends a public call: “Throughout the territory of Romania, tens and hundreds of other artists deal with other larger or smaller lights, depending on context and resources. By now responsible decisions, the entire system can be avoided. Together with my colleagues, please do not extinguish the light! ”.
The violinist Stefan Aprodu: “If today you shut up, tomorrow this tranquility will become deafening!”
International violinist Stefan Aprodu, a laureate of the “George Enescu” Festival and other renowned international competitions, joins the voices that criticize the measure of music and arts in Romania.
“Stop for a minute. Place the first chair you see and do this simple exercise of imagination: you live in a silent world, the whole earth is struggling through the universe in a grave silence, no agreement, absolutely no sound, no absolute. The dust is in the air. transmits, for the truth, the artist.
Aprodu, formed at the National College of Arts “Dinu Lipatti” in Bucharest and currently a student at the University of Music, Theater and Media in Hanover, emphasizes the importance of these institutions for future generations: “They are the only place where the artists are prepared for tomorrow, whose music will accompany you in life and which will break the tranquility. If you are silent today, tomorrow this peace will become deafening! ”
The violinist recalled that the Romanian Music School formed world prestigious artists: “The National College of Arts Dinu Lipatti from Bucharest has removed from his banks names such as Gheorghe Zamfir, Mihaela Martin, Angela Gheorghiu, Maria Tănase! I can only dream that my name will ever deserve to be a reason for pride for the Romanian school! ”
He considers that his international success would not have been possible without the vocational system in Romania: “The prizes obtained in the world, the fact that I am invited to take great courses and recognition are not only my merit, but of the Romanian teachers and the school that formed me.”
In his opinion, the closing or merging of vocational schools with other units would turn access to music education into a privilege: “The secondary schools with a vocational program are the cornerstone of the artists. Do not make an art cost of those who can afford it through the study in particular, because during a few generations culture in this regard will already be died, public and artists alike! “
Conductor Dragoș Tiberiu Oprea: “Music of music schools could be a premeditation crime”
Dragoș Tiberiu Oprea, conductor and founder of the Philharmonic, but also a parent of two children studying at the “George Enescu” High School of Arts in Bucharest, harshly criticizing the decision to combine vocational schools.
“I would not even know where to start because we are, as artists at national level, in shock! To think purely on paper is to a useful point, but admirable would be to study and the phenomenon that you want to combat! A gymnasium of art is vital to children, especially for those who start at 4.5 years,” Explain, for the truth, the artist.
He points out that music high schools or folk schools with some art classes “They are not enough for the need for children who want to make art, they offer too few places, or parents should bear very high costs for pocket for the hours that children have free of charge in the vocational schools. ”
According to him, it is normal for these schools to have fewer students, because the study of the instrument involves individual work and additional time: “How do those who make such decisions imagine that things can be done otherwise? Or, worse, to get in the situation in which to integrate a vocational school into a normal, theoretical gymnasium, and the small artists who provide the cultural future and the survival of the musical phenomenon in the country will be on the red list!”
The artist emphasizes the essential role of instrument teachers, who “exceed the methodological norms registered in an order of minister ”, To model the sensitivity and resistance of children: “Artistic modeling means working with the spirit, development of sensitivity and spirituality that children will later be able to work together to transmit to the audience that unseen thing called emotion”, Explains Dragoș Tiberiu Oprea.
He describes the stages that any musician passes through: “Tears, despair, emotions, mistrust, fail until you get to play your first song on an instrument, countless moments in which you want to give up until the music starts to take shape, sit and have an echo.”
Dragoș Tiberiu Oprea warns of a “gloomy future”: “I see how it is given in art, from all sides: cutting budgets, fewer events, higher prices and less public, schools of arts made from which many talented children will be lost. At the same time, as a parent of two children studying the George Enescu High School, as well as all the parents who have chosen this path.”
It makes a comparison with the Legend of Master Manole: “It is so difficult to build everything that is strong and full of spirituality that lasts in time and so easily you can destroy, leaving behind ruins. A society saved mathematically on paper, but in clinical death if you take the prana through which they express, live, love, socialize, find themselves!”
Alina Buzia: “The students of Floria Capsali High School are desired at any profile school in the world”
The artist, a son of a choreoper from the “Floria Capsali” High School, evokes his own childhood among artists. “My mother was a lifetime correction with ballet, and now, at the hearing of the news that the lock is put, it is mourning the forced amputation of hope. I dare to say that everything that happens could be a premeditated crime!”
His conclusion is sharp: “The artists do not exist without public, the public is an active part of art, it is such an intimate symbiosis that you cannot encompass it in words. What distinguishes us from the other mammals is the ability to create and convey emotion. Music and art are light for the photosynthesis of the soul!“
But concerns do not stop at the secondary schools. In Bucharest, the artistic community also mobilized in the defense of vocational high schools, such as the “Floria Capsali” High School and the “Dinu Lipatti” Music High School, institutions with an international tradition and reputation. On social networks, critical messages appeared against the Ministry of Education. “Shame, Minister David, the simple fact that the reform is done by the kilogram! (…) The students of Floria Capsali high school are desired at any profile school in the world, which is the supreme pledge that the teachers and the management of this institution do their job to international standards (…) shame!”, He wrote in a public post on Facebook a user called Alina Buzia.
At the same time, online petitions circulate by which it is required to stop the combination of music and choreography high schools: “There is discussed the combination of choreography and music high schools in Bucharest, and this is a very bad news, at least for those from choreography (…) Unfortunately, with many shortcomings, but that would be even more complicated in the hypothesis,” It is shown in such a call.
Between the letter of the law, which leaves portions for the vocational schools, and the practice of the ministry, who talks about “per kilogram”, remains a simple and pressing question: what weighs more for Romania: the austerity or cultural future of his children?
