Now in their 5th edition, the Constantin Br\u00e2ncoveanu Awards were presented in a sober and elegant atmosphere at the Royal Palace in Bucharest \u2013 the National Museum of Art. More than 200 guests attended the ceremony. Among them were representatives of the Royal House of Romania, diplomats, former and current ministers, including the Minister of Culture and National Identity, George Vladimir Iva\u0219cu, who presented the award for History. Former laureates, presidents of Chambers of Commerce and Industry, and the director of the Romanian Patriarchate Publishing House, Father Mihai H\u0103u, who presented the award for Literature, were also present.<\/p>\n
“I am very glad and proud that, in the year of the Centenary in Romania, the Constantin Br\u00e2ncoveanu Awards are celebrating their 5th edition. We have managed to take these distinctions to the next stage, the one dedicated to the diaspora. This opening towards the world has taken us to Cyprus, the United Kingdom and Germany. The end of the year will also bring my tribute to those who gave their lives for the achievement of the Great Union. We will cross the Ocean, and on 27 November we will organise, at the New York Public Library in the USA, a major event entitled the ‘Constantin Br\u00e2ncoveanu International Awards Gala’. The distinctions will be offered to cultural and scientific personalities from all over the world. We will continue the tradition of the Constantin Br\u00e2ncoveanu galas in Romania and in the diaspora as before. In addition, we will make these international awards, which we will organise year after year, become a tradition at global level too, just as the national galas already are in Romania,” said Nawaf Salameh, founder and chairman of the Alexandrion Foundation, at the opening of the event.<\/p>\n
In 2018 the Constantin Br\u00e2ncoveanu Awards kept the same open selection procedure as in previous years, and the jury was structured similarly to earlier editions. The jury president this year was again the renowned Academician Dan Berindei, and the vice-president was Prof. Dr. Andrei Marga, one of the vice-presidents of the Alexandrion Foundation. The jury was completed by: Prof. Dr. Ioan Scurtu, Liviu Ioan Stoiciu, Prof. Arch. Marian Moiceanu, Dr. Dana Safta, \u0218tefan R\u00e2mniceanu \u2013 visual artist and laureate of the Br\u00e2ncoveanu Awards, Magda Mih\u0103ilescu \u2013 film critic, Ileana Lucaciu \u2013 theatre critic, Sorina Goia \u2013 editor-in-chief at Actualitatea Muzical\u0103, Radio Rom\u00e2nia Cultural, and Dumitru Constantin \u2013 secretary of the jury.<\/p>\n
This year came with a new trophy for the laureates. The new symbol of the Constantin Br\u00e2ncoveanu Awards, chosen following a public competition, was created by the renowned sculptor Marian Zidaru. In addition to the award itself, the Alexandrion Foundation will support a subsequent project of the laureate, on the basis of a decision of the Foundation’s Steering Committee.<\/p>\n
The Foundation reserves the right to present up to two special distinctions \u2013 this year the Honorary Distinction was presented to Her Majesty Margareta, Custodian of the Crown, and the Foundation’s Special Award went to Prof. Dr. Dumitru Preda.<\/p>\n
The laureates of the Constantin Br\u00e2ncoveanu Awards 2018 are:<\/strong><\/p>\n “Mircea Roman’s figures descend from the great archetypes of Egyptian, Etruscan and Assyrian antiquity. The synthetism and spirituality of the reused wood give his sculptures an iconic, archaic and, at the same time, modern appearance, and lend them an openness to universality.” (\u0218tefan R\u00e2mniceanu)<\/p>\n “He is one of the most valuable young researchers and museographers in Romania. He has made his name through his research on the castles and palaces of Romania.” (Ioan Scurtu)<\/p>\n <\/strong>“What I heard here, in the laudatio, is the story of a restless doctor who always wanted more and more. And that is indeed so. (\u2026) I dedicate this award, with the emotion of its significance, to all doctors at home and abroad, to the patients who push us every day to be better, to the team that made the fulfilment of a dream possible, and to my family,” said Assoc. Prof. Dr. C\u0103t\u0103lin Cop\u0103escu.<\/p>\n “Eminescu is a great producer of ideas; it is a pity that many have forgotten to read him,” said Ion Caramitru.<\/p>\n “This award honours me, of course, but I think there is something deeper here. It is linked to the attitude towards culture. Culture needs more signs like this. You are doing something absolutely remarkable by turning towards culture,” said Academician Eugen Simion.<\/p>\n Film: Mircea Mure\u0219an \u2013 honoured for his lifetime achievement.<\/strong><\/p>\n “By coincidence, in these days when I am receiving this lifetime achievement award, my films mentioned by the jury, ‘R\u0103scoala’ and ‘Toate p\u00e2nzele sus’, have been rebroadcast. This award is a great joy for me.”<\/p>\n “With more than 1,000 concerts conducted in 35 countries on 4 continents, Cristian Mandeal is today one of the most important Romanian conductors. His name is linked to the development of the “George Enescu” Philharmonic in Bucharest, and also of the present Romanian Youth Orchestra, at whose podium he has stood since its foundation.” (Sorina Goia)<\/p>\n “The vast experience accumulated in his prodigious activity is generously given, as a professor, to generations of students of the “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urban Planning in Bucharest.” (Prof. Dr. Arch. Marian Moiceanu)<\/strong><\/p>\n It has already become a tradition for the scholarship to be awarded to a pupil of the school in the commune of Br\u00e2ncoveni, in recognition of outstanding academic results. This is the gift that the employees of the Foundation and of the Group give, year after year, to the founder and chairman, Nawaf Salameh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Now in their 5th edition, the Constantin Br\u00e2ncoveanu Awards were presented in a sober and elegant atmosphere at the Royal Palace in Bucharest \u2013 the National Museum of Art. More than 200 guests attended the ceremony. Among them were representatives of the Royal House of Romania, diplomats, former and current ministers, including the Minister of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"alx_galerie":"515,516,517,518","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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