The Constantin Silvestri International Foundation

The Silvestri Scholarships Competition, founded and organised by the Foundation, takes place annually, in May and July, in the Transylvanian city of Targu Mures in the heart of Romania, in the handsome building of the Palace of Culture where Silvestri studied music as a teenager and where the country's best-known musician George Enescu predicted a brilliant future for the boy pianist. Targu Mures has a classical music tradition and orchestra dating from the 1820s. Liszt gave a recital here and it has hosted artistes of the calibre of Pablo Casals, Jan Kubelik, Joseph Szigeti and Annie Fischer.

Finalists and jury of the Silvestri Scholarships Competition 2000

The Palace of Culture, Targu Mures
The Competition is followed by concerts, educational activities, workshops and musical events for young musicians and youth orchestras. Staff, students and music groups from independent British schools visit Romania every year to participate in artistic events, community work and make friends with their Romanian counterparts.

On July 15th 2004 the Foundation - in association with Ioan Nemtoi Art Gallery in Bucharest – launched the Constantin Silvestri Mini-Proms with the participation of outstanding music students from the Yehudi Menuhin and Chetham’s schools in the UK, and the George Enescu Music School in Bucharest. Silvestri initiated the first Romanian Promenade Concerts in June 1951 in a parc in Bucharest.