Culture · Wednesday, 30 September 2026
Classic Unlimited Festival returns to Cluj County with three concerts
Pianist Bogdan Vaida brings, on October 3, November 1, and November 7, concerts to Gilău Castle, Motoland Cluj-Napoca, and the Franciscan monastery in Gherla, with free admission.

The Classic Unlimited Festival returns to Cluj County this autumn with three piano concerts performed by Bogdan Vaida, as part of the national tour "The Sound of Poetry", an edition that marks ten years since the project's first concert.
The first concert will take place on Saturday, October 3, at the Rákóczi-Bánffy Castle in Gilău. On November 1, the piano arrives at Motoland in Cluj-Napoca, a space that has already hosted a Classic Unlimited concert last year. The series concludes on November 7, at the Church and Cloister of the Franciscan Monastery in Gherla.
The program includes eight works inspired by poetry, four from the classical repertoire and four contemporary creations by Romanian composers. This year, the tour also includes the exhibition "Classic Unlimited x Poster x Poem", with illustrations created by eight contemporary artists based on the poems in the program.
In total, the 2026 edition comprises 13 concerts in nine counties, and since the project's launch in 2017, 95 concerts, 39 localities, and over 15,000 spectators have been recorded. Admission is free, by reservation, within available capacity.
For a Cluj resident settled far from home, the news brings back into focus heritage sites of the county, temporarily transformed into concert halls.
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