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22 May 2026, at 7:00 p.m., Studio 181 Hall, Rectorate building, Transilvania University of Brașov

The Multicultural Centre of Transilvania University of Brașov invites the academic and entire Brașov community to attend, within the concert series Chamber Jazz @ Transilvania University, the premiere of a unique trio consisting of Paolo Profeti (saxophone), Sorin Romanescu (guitar) and Ștefan Stoianovici (piano), who propose a repertoire of both original compositions and standards reinterpreted under their own arrangements.

Paolo Profeti, born in Italy, is a renowned saxophonist, composer and arranger. After his relocation to Bucharest, in 2013, he has become an authority of the Romanian contemporary jazz stage. His main band is Paolo Profeti European Collective, an international contemporary jazz group featuring Italian and Romanian musicians who combine jazz with progressive and electronic elements. They released together several albums, including Waiting for Bucharest (2015), Glide (2019) and Peer Out (2024). They perform on the stage of jazz clubs and festivals in Romania and Italy, with ever-wider echoes all over Europe. Profeti is also an alto soloist and party leader in the Big Band of the Romanian National Radio.

Sorin Romanescu is one of Romania’s most acclaimed jazz guitarists. He made his debut as a jazz musician in the early '90s. Throughout his career he has performed with musicians of all generations, such as the pianist Marius Popp and the saxophonist Garbis Dedeian, but also Luiza Zan, Maria Răducanu, Mihai Iordache, Vlad Popescu or Cristian Soleanu. Displaying stylistic flexibility and a great passion for improvisation, in the early 2000s he developed collaborations with choreographers in the field of contemporary dance, such as Vava Ștefănescu, Eduard Gabia or Mihai Mihalcea. He is currently performing and recording on Alexandru Andrieș’ albums. He has also been an audio producer for advertising music, made several soundtracks for documentary films, as well as the soundtrack of the feature film Dogs.

Ștefan Stoianovici is an excellent Romanian pianist and composer of the contemporary classical and jazz stage. He is mostly acknowledged as a band leader, of his own quartet, but also for his collaborations, as a sideman and co-leader, with various other bands, such as Opening Theory and SEKU. His music often intertwines improvisation and classical genres, but he has a taste for straight-ahead jazz, too. The artist also wrote music for theatre, concert pieces for orchestra, which came to life under the baton of Cristian Măcelaru and Cristian Mandeal, as well as jazz arrangements performed by Radio Big Band.

We will be therefore waiting for you on Friday, 22 May 2026, starting at 7:00 p.m., in the Multicultural Centre of Transilvania University (29 Eroilor Blvd). The entrance is free, within the limit of available seats.

To reserve your seat, you may email us at the addresscultural@unitbv.ro