13TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS
CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
General Information
21 May - 1 June 2013

The International Pharos Chamber Music Festival is being organized again this year, despite the recent shortcomings in Cyprus. The Festival has established itself as the most important annual classical music event on the island, and has gained international reputation for its quality concerts and magnificent settings. Guided by a visionary spirit and dedicated to artistic excellence and innovation, the Festival attracts over 2.000 visitors every year. It also maintains a strong tradition of community service, with educational concerts organized for students of public schools and a number of master-classes for young instrumentalists. read more...

13TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS
CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Festival Concert 1 Nicosia:
Baroque Recital with Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord) & Michala Petri (recorders)
Tuesday 21 May 2013 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia / 8:30pm

The first concert of the Festival opens in The Shoe Factory, Nicosia with a Baroque recital by two very special artists. Hailed as the ''leading harpsichordist of his generation'' by Opera Today magazine, Mahan Esfahani will join forces with the legendary Michala Petri, who is generally acknowledge as one of the most beloved performers of our times and the leading exponent of her instrument, the recorder. read more...

13TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS
CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Festival Concert 2 Nicosia:
Piano Recital with Elisha Abas
Friday 24 May 2013 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia / 8:30pm

The Festival continues in The Shoe Factory with a Piano Recital by Israeli pianist Elisha Abas. The great-great grandson of composer Alexander Scriabin, Abas was a child prodigy who first appeared on the world stage at the age of six. After nine busy years of touring the world, he took a break from performing in public, and became, in the meanwhile, a professional footballer in Israel’s premier league, before returning to the world stage in 2004. read more...

13TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS
CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Festival Concerts in Paphos:
Fifteen soloists join forces for five unique concerts
Monday 27 – Friday 31 May 2013
Royal Manor House, Kouklia, Paphos / 8:30pm

Some of the world’s leading soloists including Sergei Nakariakov (trumpet), Boris Brovtsyn (violin), the concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, Daishin Kashimoto, Marc Coppey (cello) and Ashley Wass (piano) will join forces for five unique chamber concerts at The Royal Manor House, in Kouklia, Pafos - one of the finest surviving monuments of Frankish architecture on the island and a UNESCO World Heritage site. read more...

13TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Last Festival Concert:
An open-air concert for strings
June 1 2013 / The Olive Grove, Delikipos / 8:30pm

The last Festival concert will take place at The Olive Grove in Delikipos and will feature a programme of string quintets by Mozart and Brahms with violinists Boris Brovtsyn and Levon Chilingirian, violists Diemut Poppen and Sam Barsegian, and cellist Alexander Chaushian. The Olive Grove is a world-class, open-air concert venue, which aims to deliver relaxed and informal events so that intimacy is developed between the artists and the audience. The venue is surrounded by the idyllic forest of Delikipos and is adorned with wooden decks, shallow pools of water, zen landscaping and a uniquely atmospheric lighting. read more...