Concerts & Recitals

Setting the stage for local and international artists

The Pharos Arts Foundation organises a number of concerts throughout the year, inviting many of the world’s most renowned soloists and ensembles to perform in Cyprus as part of its internationally acclaimed annual Concert and Recital Series. The Foundation’s commitment to music excellence has given the opportunity to local audiences to experience concerts and recitals covering a wide range of repertoire ranging from early baroque to modern 20th 21st century, as well as premieres of newly-commissioned works by Cypriot and international composers.

Over the past two decades, the Pharos Arts Foundation has organised hundreds of concerts and recitals. Audiences have enjoyed performances by illustrious ensembles and orchestras such as the London Sinfonietta, the Akademie fűr Alte Musik Berlin, Le Concert Spirituel, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Academy of Ancient Music, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Intercontemporain, and recitals by soloists such as pianists Grigory Sokolov and Yuja Wang, violinists Joshua Bell and Leonidas Kavakos, cellists Steven Isserlis and Natalia Gutman, and soprano Emma Kirby, to name but a few.

Part of the Pharos Arts Foundation’s mission has also been to support and promote talented Cypriot composers at the beginning of their career, providing opportunities for world premieres of their works, especially commissioned by the Pharos Arts Foundation, to be performed by orchestras and ensembles of worldwide reputation. These include the world premiere of Vassos Nicolaou’s work Kimata by the London Sinfonietta in 2003 as well as the world premiere of Evis Sammoutis’s work Echopraxia in May 2006 by the Ensemble Modern, one of the world’s leading ensembles of modern music.

In 2007, the Pharos Arts Foundation inaugurated The Cyprus Artists Series which is presented concurrently with the Concert and Recital Series, and it is dedicated to the promotion and support of young leading musicians of Cypriot ancestry, as well as musicians residing and pursuing a career in Cyprus. The Series is also committed to the support of Cypriot composers and features premieres of commissioned new works.

Concerts & Recitals
November 21, 2025
Winner of numerous top prizes at prestigious international competitions – including the Deutsche Musikwettbewerb, the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, and the Joseph Joachim Competition Weimar – the Malion Quartett has rapidly established itself as one of the most versatile...
November 13, 2025
Rapidly developing a reputation as one of the most innovative pianists of his generation, Julian Chan has given performances at numerous prestigious venues across the globe including Wigmore Hall and Southbank Centre in London, Nanjing Poly Theatre in China, and...
November 8, 2025
Hindustani classical music – the centuries-old tradition of North India that unites contemplation with virtuosity – is marked by spiritual depth, intricate improvisation, and rhythmic refinement, and continues to engage audiences worldwide through its profound balance between structure and freedom....
October 24, 2025
The Waldstein Trio, comprising violinist Greta Papa, cellist Miguel Ángel Villeda, and our own Cypriot pianist Christos Fountos – who has recently taken the world by storm after winning Third Prize at the prestigious Busoni Piano Competition – is already...
Founded in Oslo in 1997, the internationally acclaimed vocal ensemble Trio Mediæval has gained worldwide recognition for its crystalline vocal blend and its unique repertoire, spanning sacred monophonic and polyphonic medieval music, Nordic traditions, and contemporary works created especially for...
Founded in 2010, the groundbreaking Black Pencil ensemble regularly appears at Europe’s leading concert halls, including Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Muziekgebouw Frits Philips in Eindhoven, Kunsthalle Erfurt, and BKA‑Theater Berlin. Treating over a thousand years of music history as its creative playground,...
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