EXHIBITION: ABSOLUTE ZERO
ADAM BALL
28 SEPTEMBER – 22 OCTOBER 2016

The Pharos Arts Foundation is pleased to present Absolute Zero, a solo show of work from British artist Adam Ball. The exhibition includes drawings, signature paper and coloured fabric cut-outs and new raw pigment paintings. This recent body of work by Adam Ball has been evolving since first being exhibited at the Goss-Michael Foundation, US in 2014, and the Bait Al Zubair Museum, Oman in 2015. In Cyprus, the exhibition will be on show from 28 September until 22 October 2016 at The Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art read more...

8TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL
5-16 OCTOBER 2016

Organised between 5 and 16 October 2016 at The Shoe Factory in Nicosia, the 8TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL will feature four unique concerts, as well as a number of other interesting events such as documentary screenings, lectures and educational workshops. This year’s Festival draws attention to contemporary masterpieces in which human voice takes the lead. Over a decade since the Pharos Arts Foundation presented the Cyprus premiere of Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire with the London Sinfonietta, read more...

8TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY
MUSIC FESTIVAL
Marianne Pousseur & Ensemble Het Collectief
under the direction of Robin Engelen
WEDNESDAY 5 OCTOBER 2016 / 8:30PM

Drawing attention to contemporary masterpieces in which human voice takes the lead, the 8th International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival opens on Wednesday 5 October 2016 with the performance of one of the most emblematic works of the 20th century. Over a decade since the Pharos Arts Foundation presented the Cyprus premiere of Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire with the London Sinfonietta, the work which has changed the history of vocal music forever and which has never  read more...

8TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY
MUSIC FESTIVAL
Uli Fussenegger (double-bass)
Hélène Fauchère (soprano)
SUNDAY 9 OCTOBER 2016 / 8:30PM

The second concert of the 8th International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival, will feature Beat Furrer’s psychological masterpiece Lotófagos I, for soprano and double-bass, which was written in 2006 and was premiered by the very same artist who will give its Cyprus premiere on Sunday 9 October 2016, 20:30, at The Shoe Factory – the exciting double-bassist Uli Fussenegger of Klangforum Wien who will join forces with the exceptional French soprano Hélène Fauchère read more...

8TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL
Loré Lixenberg (mezzo-soprano)
Aisha Orazbayeva ( violin)
WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2016 / 8:30PM

The 8th International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival will continue on 12 October 2016, 20:30 at The Shoe Factory, with a concert featuring the Cyprus premiere of Kurtág’s monumental 70-minute masterpiece for voice and violin, written in 1987, Kafka Fragments. The work is based on Kafka’s texts taken from his notebooks, diaries, and letters, and will be performed by the internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano Loré Lixenberg and violinist Aisha Orazbayeva. read more...

8TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY
MUSIC FESTIVAL
Piano Recital with Joseph Houston
SUNDAY 16 OCTOBER 2016 / 8:30PM

Dedicated to promoting the linkage between old and new music so that the listener can be familiarized with the historical cohesion of music evolution, the 8th International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival will conclude on Sunday 16 October 2016, 20:30 at The Shoe Factory, with a recital by pianist Joseph Houston, one of the most sought-after rising stars on the international contemporary music scene read more...