2nd Edition 2015

Prof. Dr. Grigore Constantinescu presented him as not only a great musician but also an "architect, because he built a festival in Sinaia – the "Enescu and the Music of the World" International Festival – and built a symphony youth orchestra."

"The morality of certain social segments is laughable now, and in these conditions the initiative of the Alexandrion Foundation is remarkable," said Ștefan Râmniceanu.

"An award for a personality who began as a hugely successful painter, who created a stir and had emulators around him, but who gradually became a Christian painter, making a transition from the mundane to the religious under the influence of the revelations conveyed by Father Galeriu, by Nicolae Steinhardt and by the habit of going to church," said Magdalena Popescu-Bedrosian in her tribute to the painter.

The director of the National Theatre in Cluj-Napoca, the only one in Romania to have produced a Brâncoveanu play, had a message aimed especially at young people – "Let us demonstrate through culture that Romania is not just a transit country".

"One of the few prose writers who pushed the level of the transfiguration of matter far, in a way incomparable with his predecessors, which is no small thing, who established a spiritual territory in our prose and reconciled the need for truth with the need for stylistic novelty." (Eugen Negrici) Dumitru Radu Popescu thanked for the Constantin Brâncoveanu Award by comparing it to a "grandchild of the Nobel Prize" here in Romania.

Honorary President of the Ion Mincu Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning, Emil Barbu Popescu was the one who reinvented Club "A" and the youth houses, places where students practised resistance through culture before 1989. He also reinvented the football club Sportul Studențesc, becoming the almost legendary president of the Bucharest team. A man who built with young people and for young people, as he himself confessed. "Besides the profession, an architect needs character, because today a lack of character reigns." (Emil Barbu Popescu)

Magazin istoric magazine has been published for 48 years. "The History of Romanians has disappeared from high school, replaced by "History"; it has disappeared from public television, and the "History Hour" on the radio has been reduced to 25 minutes, but Magazin Istoric magazine is the same as it has been for almost half a century." (Ioan Scurtu)