Mairi Nicolson, Damien Beaumont and Christopher Lawrence will be leading music and opera tours in 2017.

Popular ABC Classic FM presenters Mairi Nicolson, Damien Beaumont and Christopher Lawrence have signed up to travel the world and lead music and opera tours for Renaissance Tours in 2017.

Nicolson will helm a tour to Romania’s Enescu Festival in Bucharest in September, followed by a six-day Treasures of Transylvania tour. “It’s my second visit to the Enescu Festival,” Nicolson told Limelight. “Of the nine tours I’ve taken to Europe and the USA, it was the most astonishing. One of my abiding memories from the tour three years ago was wandering in to a rehearsal of the Staaskapelle Berlin (no security) with keyboard titans Daniel Barenboim and Radu Lupu arguing the toss about the tempi of the Mozart double concerto they were playing that night. Needless to say, the performance was magic!”

The 2017 Enescu Festival will include a line-up of concerts by ensembles such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic, Orchestra of La Scala Milan and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

“The Festival is named after Romania’s famous violinist and composer and each visiting ensemble is asked to include a work of Enescu...