According to the organizers of the show, all tickets for the Sarah Chang Violin Battle performance on Valentine’s Day are sold out. The concert is part of a Culture Crusade larger project meant to support quality as opposed to kitsch in performing arts.

Violinist Sarah Chang is recognized the world over as one of classical music’s most captivating and gifted artists. Appearing in the music capitals of Asia, Europe and the Americas, she has collaborated with most major orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Boston Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, the principal London orchestras and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam. Notable recital engagements have included her Carnegie Hall debut and performances at the Kennedy Centre in Washington, Orchestra Hall in Chicago, Symphony Hall in Boston, the Barbican Centre in London, the Philharmonic in Berlin as well as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. She has reached an even wider audience through her many television appearances, concert broadcasts and best-selling recordings for EMI Classics. The remarkable accomplishments of her career were recognized in 1999 when she received the Avery Fisher Prize, one of the most prestigious awards given to instrumentalists. Her performance in Bucharest will be hosted by the Athenaeum on February 14, as of 7 pm.