Musica Prohibita - 5th September 2025 at 7pm

Two remarkable Romanian musicians circling the Globe with a recital tour dedicated to the 80th commemoration of the Holocaust

Two of the most active and acclaimed Romanian musicians of the recent years – violinist Diana Jipa and pianist Stefan Doniga – will open in Geneva, on September 5, starting at 7PM, at the Holy Trinity Church, their third tour around the Globe in three consecutive years, establishing an outstanding world premiere. The duo obtained, in 2024, the GUINNESS WORLD RECORD recognition for The Fastest Time to play a Professional Concert Tour on all 7 continents, their final step in Antarctica representing also the first classical professional concert ever held on the White Continent.

This year, the two globetrotters will build their new project around the importance of culture for the memory of the humanity, drawing the attention to the way culture has represented, throughout the most dramatic moments of history, the supreme refuge and the most comprehensive repository of human values, becoming the most powerful and authentic form of resistance in front of all types of oppression.

Being dedicated to the 80^th commemoration of the Holocaust and of the end of the WWII, the project's trajectory includes, with a strong symbolic value, the 4 cities in the world that host United Nations headquarters (Geneva, Vienna, Nairobi and New York), as a sign of admiration and support for the significance of this international forum's activity in the fight against persecution and oppression.

The program presented by the two tireless Romanian musicians includes a collection of creations belonging to composers from different cultural spaces, with sometimes contrasting destinies, but united by a common denominator: opposition to an oppressive political system and, in some cases, the sacrifice that this entailed. Therefore, this repertoire includes personalities who have enjoyed universal recognition – Dmitri Shostakovich, Ernest Bloch (a composer born in Geneva 145 years ago), Paul Constantinescu, Mihail Jora, Myriam Marbe, Walter Klepper – but also a name almost disappeared from the public's memory – the Ukrainian-Jewish composer Serghei Bortkiewicz. There are creators who build a universal perspective on the phenomenon of resistance through art and the continuity of the belief in freedom, to which is added, as in the case of previous world tours, an absolute premiere work created especially for this tour by the young composer Roman Vlad.

The tour is scheduled between September 5 - October 1, 2025 and is carried out by the INNOVARTE Cultural Association with funding from the Romanian Cultural Institute through the Cantemir Program and with the valuable support of the Permanent Mission od Romania to the United Nations Office in Geneva and the International Organizations in Switzerland.