Profiles

Radu Oltean

Artist, Illustrator, Historian, Re-enactor Bucharest, Romania

Attila Zakarias Kazmer Kovacs

Architects Sfantu Gheorghe (Sepsiszentgyörgy) With personal resources and support from friends, Mr. Zakarias initiated the idea of saving old farm buildings and rebuilding them in a remote Carpathian village near Ghimes (Gyimes) (more) known as home to the Csangos, an […]

Living Human Treasures

ASTRA Museum of Traditional Folk Civilization Sibiu (Hermannstadt) Working within guidelines established in 1989 by UNESCO, the Museum under the direction of Dr. Corneliu Bucur established a Living Human Treasures Program. For exceptional cultural contribution of selected individuals in traditional […]

Ioan Sorin Apan

ASTRA Museum of Traditional Folk Civilization Click to Enlarge Sibiu (Hermannstadt) Sorin ==Apan= is a high school professor of theology anb physics. He is collectors of Romanian oral history and folk ornamentation and a scholar in understanding folk symbology. FOLK […]

Andrei Ciubotaru

Andrei Ciubotaru is a young Bucharest painter with a unique modern style. Twenty-eight year-old Andrei first created a painting at age six influenced by his father’s work. MODERN ARTIST ANDREI CIUBOTARU – (Otopeni – Bucharest outskirts)Influenced by his father, Andrei […]

Márta Károlyi & Dr. Razvan Geica

Márta Károlyi team coordinator 2016 US Women’s Olympic Gold Medalists; Dr. Razvan Geica Deputy Coach first place US team in 2016 International Math Olympiads

Ethnographic Atlas of Romania (Vol 1-5), Bucharest / Update July 2012

ETHNOGRAPHIC ATLAS OF ROMANIA – Volumes 1 -5 / Update July 2012 Visit by Dan Dimancescu to the Ethnographic and Folklore Institute, Bucharest, Romania, July 2012. More background Click on thumbnail for page two (2012)

Gyorgy Nemes guitar maker Tufalau, Transylvania (Romania)

Gyorgy Nemes – Guitar Maker, Tufalau, Transylvania (Romania)See also: Transylvania International Guitar Festival www.guitarfoundation.org/drupal/node/3402 Transylvania Guitar Association http://transilvaniaguitar.ro/ Music by Charles Brown “Driftin’ Blues” Photos with pocket Canon camera taken during two-hour visit to Gyorgy’s small studio. This is located […]

Stan Gheorghe – Cymbalum Musician, Romania

FOLK MUSIC – CYMBALUM STAN GHEORGHE – (Draganesti) Widely recognized internationally for his cymbalum playing talent, Stan Gheorghe lives in a Roma (gypsy) cummunity about 60 km south of Bucharest. He reflects a long history of specially talented Roma […]

Hermann Binder

ORGAN RESTORER Hermann Binder – (Sibiu/Hermannstadt) Mr. Binder maintains a home-studio in the city of Sibiu (Hermannstadt) (more) in Transylvania. He is president, too, of the organ makers association that includes eight companies. While much of his work is accomplished […]

Honorary Consulate of Romania (Boston, Massachusetts)

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