{"id":2911,"date":"2026-03-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radiofolk.dk\/captivate-podcast\/hovedstads-guld-george-mihalache-rumnsk-cimbalomspiller-komponist-fra-amager\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T09:54:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T07:54:40","slug":"hovedstads-guld-george-mihalache-rumnsk-cimbalomspiller-komponist-fra-amager","status":"publish","type":"captivate_podcast","link":"https:\/\/radiofolk.dk\/en\/captivate-podcast\/hovedstads-guld-george-mihalache-rumnsk-cimbalomspiller-komponist-fra-amager\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital Gold: George Mihalache \u2013 Romanian cimbalom player &amp; composer from Amager"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfm-player-iframe\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px; margin-bottom: 20px; border-radius: 6px; overflow:hidden;\"><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/player.captivate.fm\/episode\/362f9bdf-4468-4c55-af2a-094b827c7c5d\"><\/iframe><\/div><p>Welcome to a podcast about the award-winning Romanian cimbalom player and composer, <em>George Mihalache<\/em>, who has lived and worked in Denmark since 1994.<\/p>\n<p>This podcast is part of a series titled <em>Capital Gold \u2013 Folk music in Denmark<\/em>, which is about documenting and disseminating the capital&#039;s folk music and the scene it is a part of.<\/p>\n<p>The music we are hearing right now is played by George Mihalache and <em>Calibut Band<\/em> who released their debut album in 2015 <em>Travelers<\/em>, and this podcast is produced by <em>RadioFolk.dk <\/em>before <em>Media Garden<\/em>, and is supported by <em>Ministry of Culture<\/em>. Thank you for that!<\/p>\n<p>One afternoon in February I visited George Mihalache in his and his wife Susanne&#039;s cozy apartment on Amager, to talk to him about his life with music. George is a gypsy and was born in Bucharest in 1971. He doesn&#039;t just play the cymbalom, he actually also plays both the double bass and the xylophone, but his main instrument is and will remain the Cymbalom \u2013 or the chopping board as he calls it.<\/p>\n<p>Cimbalom is the Hungarian name for a trapezoidal box equipped with 4 legs and a lot of metal strings that are struck with two light wooden hammers with felt heads. With an accompanying pedal, you can dampen the strings while playing, and thus vary the sound.<\/p>\n<p>George Mihalache&#039;s father, <em>Andrei Mihalache<\/em>, was a very well-known and well-liked accordion player and singer in Romania during the communist regime, and George himself has worked \u2013 and continues to work \u2013 in Denmark with many different musicians and in many different contexts. He is known for his collaboration with the now deceased guitarist <em>Christian Sievert<\/em>, for his work with accordion players <em>Lelo Nika<\/em>, and as leader of the Calibut Band. For some years he also played in a trio with the Danish national fiddler and violinist, <em>Hans Jorgen Christensen<\/em>, and the also Danish physicist and musician, <em>Peter Bastian<\/em> on clarinet, oboe and bassoon.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfm-player-iframe\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px; margin-bottom: 20px; border-radius: 6px; overflow:hidden;\"><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/player.captivate.fm\/episode\/362f9bdf-4468-4c55-af2a-094b827c7c5d\"><\/iframe><\/div><p>Welcome to a podcast about the award-winning Romanian cimbalom player and composer, George Mihalache, who has lived and worked in Denmark since 1994. This podcast is part of a series titled Capital Gold \u2013 Folk Music in Denmark, which is about documenting and communicating the capital&#039;s folk music and the scene it is a part of. The music we are hearing right now \u2026 <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/radiofolk.dk\/en\/captivate-podcast\/hovedstads-guld-george-mihalache-rumnsk-cimbalomspiller-komponist-fra-amager\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"captivate_category":[],"captivate_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2911","captivate_podcast","type-captivate_podcast","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofolk.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/captivate_podcast\/2911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofolk.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/captivate_podcast"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofolk.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/captivate_podcast"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofolk.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofolk.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofolk.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/captivate_podcast\/2911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2914,"href":"https:\/\/radiofolk.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/captivate_podcast\/2911\/revisions\/2914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofolk.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"captivate_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofolk.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/captivate_category?post=2911"},{"taxonomy":"captivate_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofolk.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/captivate_tag?post=2911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}