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Having been described as an “excellent pianist as well as a wise and thoughtful musician” (Gramophone), Nikita Mndoyants is the First Prize winner of the 2016 Cleveland International Piano Competition, the First Prize winner of the 2007 Paderewski International Piano...
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February 15, 2024
A unique concert is in store for February, as Pharos presents the partnership of three special musicians: The well-known to Cyprus audiences violinist Wolfgang Schröder, the celebrated German pianist Iwan König and the charismatic young Chinese cellist Xiaolu Li. Iwan...
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February 7, 2024
Established in 2007, the Apple Hill String Quartet has garnered international acclaim for its performances, demonstrating their masterly interpretation of classical repertoire as well as of new works by renowned composers from all over the world. From its position as...
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January 26, 2024
The Pharos Arts Foundation opens its 2024 season with a fascinating recital featuring violinist Irmina Trynkos and pianist Pavel Timofeyevsky. Hailed by the BBC Music Magazine as “an intense and charismatic new star” and “a phenomenal talent”, by Gramophone as...
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December 14, 2023
The Pharos Arts Foundation continues its longstanding collaboration with the London-based Keyboard Charitable Trust, presenting the outstanding Ivan Krpan – First Prize-winner of the prestigious Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in 2017. Praised as a true ‘tour de force’ of...
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November 30, 2023
The conclusion of November sees the Pharos Arts Foundation presenting a fascinating cello and piano recital with the exquisite Spanish cellist Pau Codina joining forces with the remarkable Portuguese pianist Marta Menezes. Having performed extensively as a soloist and chamber...
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November 24, 2023
The Simply Quartet is fast becoming one of Europe’s most distinguished young string quartets. The Vienna based Quartet is First-Prize winner at the renowned International Carl Nielsen Competition in Copenhagen, the Quatuor á Bordeaux (2019), the Franz Schubert and the...
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November 10, 2023
Described as a “genuine discovery”, soprano Christiana Aloneftis has been praised for her “gorgeous, resonant voice” and for her “strong musical and dramatic commitment”. A child of the Cypriot diaspora, born in Melbourne and now based in Munich, Christiana trained...
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Pavlos Antoniadis is a pianist, musicologist, and creative technologist, currently Associate Professor of Music Communication and Technology at the University of Ioannina, and a collaborator of the team interaction-son-musique-mouvement at IRCAM, Paris since 2014. As a soloist, Antoniadis has worked...
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The seven singers of the Neue Vocalsolisten see themselves as explorers and discoverers: in exchange with composers, they are constantly searching for new forms of vocal expression. One focus is on collaboration with artists who virtuously exploit the possibilities of...
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Drawing from a carefully selected palette of electro-acoustic textures and shapeshifting rhythms, Passepartout Duo’s work investigates the way in which we listen to and connect with sound. Continually reassessing the tools they use to create their music, the Duo –...
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One of the most renowned ensembles of our time, the Brussels-based Ictus Ensemble has shared, and sometimes amplified, current questions about the future of contemporary music. Initially led by conductor Georges-Elie Octors, at a time when ensembles saw themselves as...
Event Archives 2018-1995

enLIVE 3 – LIVE MUSIC IN SILENT FILM

Chris Davies (a multi-percussion performance)

Prima Vista Quartet

Ciné-concerts with The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) & The General (1926)

Wednesday 17 January 2018 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

enLIVE 3 – LIVE MUSIC IN SILENT FILM

Prima Vista Quartet

Andreas Zafiropoulos (piano)

Ciné-concerts with Nosferatu (1922) & Safety Last! (1923)

Friday 19 January 2018 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Alessandro Deljavan

Works by Chopin, Liszt & A. Tosto

Thursday 15 February 2018 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

VIOLA & PIANO RECITAL

Diemut Poppen (viola) & Pallavi Mahidhara (piano)

Works by Bartók, Prokofiev, Liszt, Bach & Reger

Wednesday 28 February 2018 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Nikita Mndoyants

Works by Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms & N.Mndoyants

Friday 9 March 2018 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CELLO & PIANO RECITAL

Angelos Liakakis (cello) & Titos Gouvelis (piano)

Works by Debussy & Beethoven

Friday 16 March 2018 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT OF PERSIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC

Miras Ensemble

Friday 23 March 2018 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Ilya Kondratiev

Works by Liszt, Beethoven & Chopin

Wednesday 28 March 2018 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Aldo Campagnari (violin)

Francesco Dillon (cello)

Aki Kuroda (piano)

Works by Fauré, Ravel & Francesco Filidei

Friday 20 April 2018 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

18TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Piano: Sergei Babayan, Yevgeny Sudbin, Simon Trpčeski

Violin: Pavel Vernikov, Boris Brovtsyn, Svetlana Makarova, Levon Chilingirian

Viola: Lars Anders Tomter, Diemut Poppen, Léa Hennino, David Abrahamyan

Cello: Alexander Chaushian, Tim Park

Double-Bass: Nabil Shehata

Clarinet: Paul Meyer

Horn: José Vicente Castelló

Thursday 31 May – Monday 4 June 2018 / Royal Manor House, Kouklia

18TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Piano: Sergei Babayan

Violin: Pavel Vernikov, Boris Brovtsyn, Svetlana Makarova, Levon Chilingirian

Viola: Lars Anders Tomter, Léa Hennino, David Abrahamyan

Cello: Alexander Chaushian, Tim Park

Double-Bass: Nabil Shehata

Dakapp Chamber Orchestra

Under the direction of Wilson Hermanto

Wednesday 6 June 2018 / The Olive Grove, Delikipos

A LITERARY & POETRY EVENING

Joachim Sartorius

Monday 1 October 2018 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

10TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Ensemble Modern

Premieres by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Jörg Widmann, Vassos Nicolaou, Evis Sammoutis & Andreas Tsiartas

Friday 5 October 2018 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

10TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Claudio Bettinelli (percussions)

“In Aria – An improvisation project for theremin & electronics”

Sunday 7 October 2018 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

10TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

UPISketch

“Draw your own music”

An Interactive Music Workshop for adults and children

Wednesday 10 October 2018 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

10TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Klangforum Wien

Premieres by Pierre Boulez, Claude Vivier, Helmut Lachenmann, Beat Furrer, Franco Donatoni, Evis Sammoutis, Thomas Simaku & Jorge Grossmann

Friday 12 October 2018 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

10TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) & Tamara Stefanovich (piano)

Works by Vassos Nicolaou, György Ligeti, György Kurtág, Steingrimur Rohloff, John Woolrich and York Höller

Sunday 14 October 2018 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Cyprus Guitar Trio

Works by Jesús Guridi, Franco Margola, J.S. Bach, Ferenc Farkas, M.A. Zani de Ferranti, Stephen Dodgson, Hansjoachim Kaps

Wednesday 24 October 2018 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Wojciech Waleczek

Works by Chopin, Lutosławski, Paderewski, Schumann & Liszt

Thursday 15 November 2018 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Katharina Treutler

Works by J.S. Bach, Liszt, Ravel & Prokofiev

Friday 23 November 2018 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CELLO & PIANO RECITAL

Torleif Thedéen (cello) & Elisaveta Blumina (piano)

Works by Schumann, Beethoven, Prokofiev & Kancheli

Thursday 29 November 2018 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

GUITAR RECITAL

Masataka Suganuma

Works by Vicente Asencio, Augustin Barrios Mangore, Leo Brouwer & M. Suganuma

Wednesday 5 December 2018 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

enLIVE 2 – LIVE MUSIC IN SILENT FILM

25, 27, 29 January 2017 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

JAZZ @ THE SHOE FACTORY

Arne Janse Trio

Wednesday 8 February 2017 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CLARINET & PIANO RECITAL

Wenzel Fuchs (clarinet) & Elisaveta Blumina (piano)

Works by Schumann, Brahms, Debussy & Poulenc

Wednesday 15 February 2017 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

VIOLIN & PIANO RECITAL

Nihat Agdac (violin) & Emil Duncumb (piano)

Works by Schubert, Brahms, Franck & Szymanowski

Thursday 23 February 2017 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

JAZZ @ THE SHOE FACTORY

The Ioannou / Vafeas Jazz Quartet presenting “Bridge of Locks”

Friday 10 March 2017 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Mark Viner

Works by Liszt, Chopin, Alkan & Thalberg

Friday 24 March 2017 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CELLO & PIANO RECITAL

Christian Elliott (cello) & Robin Green (piano)

Works by Beethoven & Schumann

Wednesday 5 April 2017 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

LITERARY EVENING & BOOK LAUNCH

Clarice Lispector “The Hour of the Star”

Friday 21 April 2017 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Ashley Wass

Works by Beethoven, Liszt, Smetana & Prokofiev

Friday 28 April 2017 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Theodore Tzovanakis

Works by Alexander & Julian Scriabin, P.I. Tchaikovsky, Sergei Prokofiev & Nikolai Medtner

Friday 5 May 2017 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Tetraktys String Quartet

Works by Beethoven, Shostakovich, Schnittke & Ginastera

Friday 12 May 2017 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

EXHIBITION

Gideon Rubin

“Once Removed”

17 May – 5 July 2017 / Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art

17TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Susanne Elmark (soprano) & Christian Westergaard (piano)

Friday 2 June 2017 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

17TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Vitaly Pisarenko (piano)

Friday 9 June 2017 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

17TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Piano: Sergei Babayan, Vadym Kholodenko, Yevgeny Sudbin, Vitaly Pisarenko

Violin: Boris Brovtsyn, Alena Baeva, Nicolas Dautricourt, Clara-Jumi Kang, Levon Chilingirian, Monika Urbonaite

Viola: Jennifer Stumm, Diemut Poppen, David Abrahamyan

Cello: Alexander Chaushian, Marc Coppey, Tim Park

Flute: Massimo Mercelli

Guitar: Cyprus Guitar trio

Thursday 15 – Tuesday 20 June 2017 / Royal Manor House, Kouklia

JAZZ @ THE SHOE FACTORY

Takoushis-Karapatakis Project featuring Udo Demandt

Saturday 9 September 2017 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

SOLO VIOLIN RECITAL

Emmanuel Tjeknavorian

Works by J.S. Bach, Ysaÿe, Prokofiev, Enescu, Ernst & Ehrenfellner

Friday 15 September 2017 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

9TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Wu Wei (Sheng) & Naomi Sato (Sho)

Exploring the sounds of the Far East

Friday 6 October 2017 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

9TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Shawn Mativetsky (Tabla)

Tabla – The King of Percussion Instruments

Sunday 8 October 2017 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

9TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Ensemble C Barré

Under the direction of Sebastian Boin

Western Composers Reflecting Eastern Music

Wednesday 11 October 2017 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

9TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Lingua Franca Ensemble

Soundscapes of the eastern Mediterranean

Friday 13 October 2017 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

EXHIBITION

Vahagn Hamalbashyan

“Globalised”

18 October – 3 November 2017 / The Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art

PIANO RECITAL

Konstantin Lifschitz

Bach’s Goldberg Variations & Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations

Friday 27 October 2017 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Artem Yasynskyy

Works by J.S. Bach, Haydn, Szymanowski, Prokofiev & Britten

Thursday 16 November 2017 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Acamandis Piano Trio

Works by Rachmaninov, Shostakovich & Debussy

Wednesday 29 November 2017 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Matan Porat

Works by Debussy, Rameau & Schumann

Friday 8 December 2017 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

GUITAR RECITAL

Damiano Pisanello

Works by Tristan Murail, Miguel de Fuenllana, Joan Manén, Manuel De Falla, Maurice Ohana & Felix Ibarrondo

Friday 15 December 2017 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

VOICE & PIANO RECITAL

Alda Caiello (soprano) & André Gallo (piano)

Works by Sibelius, Debussy, Montsalvatge, de Falla, Ginastera & Berio

Tuesday 19 December 2017 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

enLIVE  – LIVE MUSIC IN SILENT FILM

27, 28, 29 January 2016 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Erato Piano Trio

Works by Haydn, Schnittke and Brahms

Wednesday 17 February 2016 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

José Menor

Commemorating composer Enrique Granados’ centenary

Friday 19 February 2016 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Galina Chistiakova

Works by Debussy, Poulenc, Satie and Ravel

Friday 26 February 2016 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Borodin Quartet

Works by Haydn, Shostakovich, Borodin and Tchaikovsky

Wednesday 16 March 2016 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT OF PERSIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC

Rohaab Ensemble

Sunday 20 March 2016 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CELLO & PIANO RECITAL

Levon Mouradian (cello) & Hayk Melikyan (piano)

Works by Taneyev, Schnittke and Rachmaninov

Wednesday 30 March 2016 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

BOOK LAUNCH

“Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis”

Followed by a talk by the book’s editor, Theodoros Chiotis

Wednesday 6 April 2016 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Elisso Bolkvadze

Works by Schubert, Chopin, Debussy and Prokofiev

Wednesday 13 April 2016 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

JAZZ @ THE SHOE FACTORY

Benjamin Faugloire Project

Wednesday 20 April 2016 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

16TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Emmanuel Tjeknavorian (violin) & Maximilian Kromer (piano)

Works by Mozart, Schubert, Franck and Kreisler

Thursday 19 May 2016 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

16TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Piano: Yuja Wang, Yevgeny Sudbin, Katharina Treutler

Violin: Daishin Kashimoto, Henning Kraggerud, Boris Brovtsyn, Levon Chilingirian, Monika Urbonaite,

Viola: Shira Majoni, Diemut Poppen, David Abrahamyan

Cello: Alexander Chaushian, Tim Park

Double-Bass: Nabil Shehata

Clarinet: Alessandro Carbonare

Guitar: Fabio Zanon

Soprano: Ruzan Mantashyan

Baritone: Markos Kleovoulou

Friday 27 May – Thursday 2 June 2016 / Royal Manor House, Kouklia

16TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Piano: Katharina Treutler

Violin: Daishin Kashimoto, Levon Chilingirian,

Viola: Shira Majoni, David Abrahamyan

Cello: Alexander Chaushian

Guitar: Fabio Zanon

Soprano: Ruzan Mantashyan

Saturday 4 June 2016 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CELLO & PIANO RECITAL

Alexander Chaushian (cello) & Sergei Babayan (piano)

Works by Debussy, Shostakovich and Beethoven

Monday 12 September 2016 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

EXHIBITION

Adam Ball

“Absolute Zero”

28 September – 22 October 2016 / Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia

8TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Marianne Pousseur (vocalist) & Ensemble Het Collectief

Under the direction of Robin Engelen

Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire

Wednesday 5 October 2016 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

8TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Uli Fussenegger (double-bass) & Helène Fauchère (soprano)

Works by Henry Purcell, Klaus Huber, Vito Juraj and Evis Sammoutis

Sunday 9 October 2016 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

8TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Lorè Lixenberg (mezzo-soprano) & Aisha Orazbayeva (violin)

György Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments

Wednesday 12 October 2016 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

8TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Joseph Houston (piano)

Works by Messiaen, Ives, Xenakis, Scarlatti, Liszt, Thomas Simaku and Christian Mason

Sunday 16 October 2016 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

André Gallo

Works by Debussy, Poulenc, Satie and Ravel

Friday 28 October 2016 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Krysztof Ksiazek

Works by Chopin, Scarlatti and Schumann

Thursday 10 November 2016 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Wolfgang Schroder (violin)

Valentin Radutiu (cello)

Florian Uhlig (piano)

Works by Beethoven, Brahms and Dvořák

Wednesday 16 November 2016 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Amarcord Vocal Ensemble

Sacred and secular music of the English and Italian Renaissance

Wednesday 23 November 2016 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Stefan Kocan (bass)

Bozena Ferancova (soprano)

Robert Pechanec (piano)

Friday 2 December 2016 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

JAZZ @ THE SHOE FACTORY

Anke Helfrich Trio

Saturday 10 December 2016 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

GUITAR RECITAL

Antoine Moriniere

Works by Rodrigo, Ginastera, Manuel María Ponce and Napoléon Coste

Sunday 11 December 2016 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Clare Hammond

Works by Beethoven, Bach, Medtner, Stravinsky and Dutilleux

Wednesday 14 December 2016 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Anahit Chaushyan

Works by Prokofiev, Brahms and Schumann

Saturday 24 January 2015 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

JAZZ AT THE SHOE FACTORY

Axel Zwingenberger

Thursday 29 January 2015 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

VIOLIN & PIANO RECITAL

Erika Geldsetzer (violin) & Ian Fountain (piano)

Works by Beethoven, Elgar and Richard Strauss

Thursday 26 February 2015 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Gerhard Schulz (violin)

Lilyan Schulz-Bayrova (cello)

Noam Greenberg (piano)

Works by Schubert, Brahms and Berg

Friday 6 March 2015 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT OF PERSIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC

Miras Ensemble

Thursday 19 March 2015 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

SONG RECITAL

Gerhild Romberger (contralto) & Manuel Lange (piano)

Leider by Schumann and Brahms

Saturday 21 March 2015 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Kreutzer String Quartet

Beethoven: Beginnings, Bagatelles and Endings

Thursday 26 March 2015 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

EXHIBITION

Peter Sheppard Skӕrved

“A flash between Darkness”

27 March – 6 April 2015 / Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art

CONCERT

Peter Sheppard Skӕrved (violin) & Morgan Goff (viola)

Sunday 29 March 2015 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Pablo Galdo

Isaac Albéniz’s Suite Española

Friday 3 April 2015 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

RECITAL

Bence Boganyi (bassoon) & Miwa Hoyano (piano)

Works by JS. Bach, Chopin, Ravel, Bartók, Saint-Saëns, Dubois and Orbán

Wednesday 15 April 2015 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

GUITAR RECITAL

Timotheos Stylianides

Works by Manuel De Falla, Benjamin Britten, Mikis Theodorakis, Frank Martin and Antonio Lauro

Thursday 30 April 2015 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

15TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Amy Dickson (saxophone)

Works by C.P.E. Bach, Ross Edwards, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Paul Bonneau, Claude Debussy, Astor Piazzolla

Wednesday 20 May 2015 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

15TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Alessio Bax (piano)

Works by Beethoven, Scriabin and Mussorgsky

Friday 22 May 2015 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

15TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Piano: Alessio Bax, Vanessa Benelli Mosell, Ashley Wass

Violin: Daishin Kashimoto, Boris Brovtsyn, Levon Chilingirian, Yura Lee

Viola: Yura Lee, Maxim Rysanov, Diemut Poppen

Cello: Alexander Chaushian, Marc Coppey

Double-Bass: Hayk Khachatryan

Flute: Massimo Mercelli

Horn: Radovan Vlatković

Soprano: Margarita Elia

Monday 25 – Saturday 30 May 2015 / Royal Manor House, Kouklia

15TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Vadym Kholodenko

Works by Liszt, Brahms, Balakirev, Medtner and Vladislava Buchko

Tuesday 2 June 2015 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

JAZZ @ THE OLIVE GROVE

Erdmann – Rohrer Quartet

Saturday 6 June 2015 / The Olive Grove, Delikipos

JAZZ @ THE SHOE FACTORY

Takoushis-Karapatakis Project featuring Zacharias Spyridakis

Saturday 20 June 2015 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

EXHIBITION

Arshak Sarkissian

“Tera-Genesis”

1 – 29 July 2015 / Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art

7TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Percussion Ensemble Slagwerk den Haag (SDH)

Improvisations and Premieres by Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Guo Wenjing, Hugo Morales Murguia,

Javier Álvarez

Friday 2 October 2015 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

7TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Het Collectief Ensemble

Schönberg’s Chamber Symphony No.1 and Louis Andriessen’s Workers Union

Sunday 4 October 2015 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

7TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Peter Sheppard Skӕrved (violin)

Carly Lake (horn)

Roderick Chadwick (piano)

The Horn Trios: Johannes Brahms & Györgi Ligeti

Tuesday 6 October 2015 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

7TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Robin Green (piano)

Frederic Rzewski’s The People United will never be Defeated

Sunday 11 October 2015 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

JAZZ @ THE SHOE FACTORY

Hub Hildenbrand (guitar)

Gabriel Karapatakis (fretless bass)

Zacharias Spyridakis (Cretan lyra)

Presenting the cross-cultural jazz project “A Drop of 1000 Truths”

Wednesday 28 October 2015 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

LIEDER RECITAL

Markos Kleovoulou (baritone) & Yuri Tsunekawa (piano)

Lieder by Schubert, Liszt and Brahms

Saturday 31 October 2015 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Ergon Ensemble

Music “In Tempore Belli” (In Times of War). Works by Shostakovich, Crumb and Andreas Tsiartas

Thursday 12 November 2015 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

LECTURE

Paolo Petrocelli

“Music and Diplomacy”

Friday 13 November 2015 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

DOCUMENTARY SCREENINGS

Last Song Before the War

War Dance

13 & 14 November 2015 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

THE WONDERLAND PROJECT

Ashley Wass (piano) & Matthew Trusler (violin)

A book with 13 chapters, made into 13 little films by 22 talented directors, with original music by 13 leading composers

Thursday 26 November 2015 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Vitaly Pisarenko

Works by Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Chopin and Haydn

Thursday 3 December 2015 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

GUITAR RECITAL

Florian Larousse

Works by John Dowland, Giulio Regondi, Toru Takemitsu, Fernando Sor, Joaquin Turina

Saturday 12 December 2015 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

VOICE & PIANO RECITAL

Ville Rusanen (baritone) & Ilkka Paananen (piano)

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great Finnish composer Jean Sibelius

Saturday 19 December 2015 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Panagiotis Trochopoulos

Holbrooke’s Fantasie-Sonata No.1 “The Haunted Palace & Alkan’s Concerto for Solo Piano

Friday 31 January 2014 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Dudok String Quartet

Works by Haydn, Webern and Schumann

Wednesday 5 March 2014 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

RECITAL

Yuri Zhislin (violin & viola) & Katya Apekisheva (piano)

Works by Schubert, Brahms, Schnittke and Tchaikovsky

Thursday 20 March 2014 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Ishay Shaer

Works by Bach/Brahms, Beethoven, Schumann, Debussy and Bartók

Wednesday 26 March 2014 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT OF PERSIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC

Ensemble Shabrovan

Wednesday 2 April 2014 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Brodsky String Quartet & Loré Lixenberg (mezzo-soprano)

“Trees, Walls and Cities” is a newly commissioned song cycle that links the cities of Derry (Northern Ireland), London (UK), Utrecht (the Netherlands), Berlin (Germany), Vienna (Austria), Dubrovnik (Croatia), Nicosia (Cyprus) and Jerusalem (Israel) in creative reconciliation.

Tuesday 8 April 2014 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

14TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

François-Frédéric Guy (piano)

Works by Liszt, Debussy, Beethoven

Friday 23 May 2014 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

14TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)

Works by Tarquinio Merula, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Bernardo Storace, Johann Kuhnau, Alessandro Scarlatti

Saturday 24 May 2014 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

14TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Amarcord Vocal Ensemble

Romantic music for male chorus from Leipzig and Folk Songs from all over the world

Sunday 25 May 2014 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

14TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Piano: François-Frédéric Guy, Yevgeny Sudbin, Ashley Wass

Violin: Daishin Kashimoto, Tanja Becker-Bender, Boris Brovtsyn, Levon Chilingirian

Viola: Diemut Poppen

Cello: Alexander Chaushian

Monday 26 – Friday 30 May 2014 / Royal Manor House, Kouklia

14TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) & Alexander Chaushian (cello)

Works by J.S. Bach, Scriabin, Chopin, Franck and Rachmaninov

Saturday 31 May 2014 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Grigoryan Brothers (guitar duo)

Wednesday 4 June 2014 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

JAZZ @ THE OLIVE GROVE

Stefan Pasborg & Ibrahim Electric

Friday 13 June 2014 / The Olive Grove, Delikipos

BOOK LAUNCH & TALK

Joan Breton Connely

“The Parthenon Enigma”

Friday 27 June 2014 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

EXHIBITION

Arshak Sarkissian

“The Week of Madness”

29 September – 11 October 2014 / OPUS 39 Gallery, Nicosia

6TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Ergon Ensemble

Under the baton of Andreas Tselikas

Silent Films & Music

Saturday 4 October 2014 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

6TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Hayk Melikyan (piano) & Hugo Ticciati (violin)

Works by Messiaen, Lutoslavski, Pӓrt, Takemitsu, Evis Sammoutis, Vito Zuraj, Esaias Järnegard & Albert Schnelzer

Monday 6 October 2014 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

6TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Johannes Schwarz (bassoon) & Sascha Armbruster (saxophone)

A programme of live electronics, improvisation and free jazz

Wednesday 8 October 2014 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

RECITAL

Tereza Gevorgyan (soprano) & Yu Su (piano)

Songs and operatic arias by Mozart, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Tigranian, Herbert, Puccini and Donizetti

Saturday 11 October 2014 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

JAZZ @ THE SHOE FACTORY

Kathrin Pechlof Trio

Wednesday 22 October 2014 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

VIHUELA & GUITAR RECITAL

Ramon Carnota

Works by Luis de Narváez, Fernando Sor, Francisco Tárrega, and Isaac Albéniz

Wednesday 29 October 2014 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Paavali Jumppanen

Works by Debussy, Schumann and Jaakko Kuusisto

Wednesday 5 November 2014 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Trio Apaches

Piano trios by John Ireland, Tchaikovsky and a transcription of Debussy’s La Mer by Sally Beamish

Friday 14 November 2014 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Zoe Nicolaidou (soprano)

George Georgiou (clarinet)

Annini Tsiouti (piano)

Works by Schubert, Spohr, Villa-Lobos, Weiner, Lovreglio, Guyot

Monday 24 November 2014 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO FOUR-HANDS RECITAL

Alessio Bax & Lucille Chung

Works by Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schubert and Ravel, Kreisler, Mussorgsky and Rachmaninov

Saturday 6 December 2014 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

La Main Harmonique

Under the baton of Frédéric Bétous

Orlando Lasso’s Prophetiae Sibyllarum, consisting of 13 miniature, secular motets based on poems by Virgil, Horace and Seneca

Tuesday 16 December 2014 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

SCREENINGS AT THE SHOE FACTORY

Oscar Niemeyer – A Vida É Um Sopro / Director: Fabiano Maciel

Over your Cities Grass will Grow / Director: Sophie Fiennes

Manufactured Landscapes / Director: Jennifer Baichwal

Examined Life / Director: Astra Taylor

Notre Musique / Director: Jean-Luc Godard

A Grin without a Cat / Director: Chris Marker

Ward No.6 / Directors: Karen Shakhnazarov / Aleksandr Gornovsky

Palms (Ladoni) / Director: Artur Aristakisyan

Mcluhan’s Wake / Directors: Kevin McMahon, David Sobelman

The War you don’t see / Director: John Pilger

Edward James: Builder of Dreams / Director: Avery Danziger

The Fog of War / Director: Errol Morris

The most dangerous man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers / Directors: Judith Ehrlich & Rick Goldsmith

In Shifting Sands: The untold story of weapons inspections in Iraq / Director: Scott Ritter

Arakimentari / Director: Travis Klose

28 January – 29 March 2013 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Marios Nicolaou (percussion)

Works by J.S Bach, Stockhausen, Xenakis, Tanaka, Reifeneder, Carter, Reich, A. Moustoukis & V. Nicolaou

Tuesday 29 January 2013 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

FLUTE & PIANO RECITAL

Ana de la Vega (flute) & Irina Botan (piano)

Works by Faure, J.S. Bach, Saint-Saens, Chopin, Dutilleux, Widor and Nigel Edwards

Friday 8 February 2013 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

VIOLIN & PIANO RECITAL

Hyenoon Park (violin) & Nareh Arghamanyan (piano)

Works by Beethoven, Ravel, Szymanowski and Prokofiev

Wednesday 20 February 2013 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Matan Porat

Variations on a theme by Scarlatti

Friday 1 March 2013 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Brentano String Quartet

Works by Beethoven and Bartók

Monday 11 March 2013 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Javier Perianes

Works by Beethoven, Schumann and Falla

Thursday 21 March 2013 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

LECTURE

Claude Mutafian

“The splendour of Medieval Armenia 11th-14th c.”

Tuesday 2 April 2013 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

SCREENING

Die Thomaner: A Year in the Life of the St. Thomas Boys Choir Leipzig

Monday 22 April 2013 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Helene Lang (soprano)

Torsten Meyer (baritone)

Camerata Crucianorum

Under the direction of Johannes Lang on the organ

Tuesday 23 April 2013 / Castelliotissa Hall, Nicosia

CONCERT

Camerata Crucianorum

Julian Fahrner (violin)

Johannes Lang (piano, direction)

Mendelssohn’s Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Ensemble in D minor.

J.S. Bach’s Sonata for violin and piano in G major, BWV 1019 and the Cyprus premiere of Raffaele Grimaldi’s Syntagma III for violin and piano

Wednesday 24 April 2013 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

13TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord) & Michala Petri (recorders)

Works by Handel, J.S. Bach, Telemann, Corelli and Scarlatti

21 May 2013 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

13TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Elisha Abas (piano)

Works by Chopin, Schuman, Liszt, Gershwin and Ronn Yedidia

24 May 2013 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

13TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Violin: Boris Brovtsyn, Daishin Kashimoto, Levon Chilingirian, Monika Urbonaite, Charles Sewart

Viola: William Coleman, Sam Barsegian, Diemut Poppen

Cello: Alexander Chaushian, Marc Coppey

Double-bass: Hayk Khachatryan

Trumpet – Flugelhorn: Sergei Nakariakov

Piano: Ashley Wass, Vahan Mardirossian, Maria Meerovitch, Elisha Abas

27-31 May 2013 / Royal Manor House, Kouklia

13TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Violin: Boris Brovtsyn, Levon Chilingirian

Viola: William Coleman, Diemut Poppen, Sam Barsegian

Cello: Alexander Chaushian

Works by Brahms and Mozart

1 June 2013 / The Olive Grove, Delikipos

JAZZ @ THE SHOE FACTORY

Chorinho & Bossa Nova

Friday 14 June 2013 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

JAZZ @ THE OLIVE GROVE

Christof Lauer & Patrice Heral  

Wednesday 3 July 2013 / The Olive Grove, Delikipos

5TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Hayk Melikyan (piano)

Works by Stockhausen, Cowell, Akshelyan, Fénelon, Górecki, Jarell, Feldman, Kurtág, Simaku and Barber

Monday 30 September 2013 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

5TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Lecture: Sharon Kanach

Topoi: places and spaces of making and perceiving music” 

Tuesday 1 October 2013 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

5TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Electronic Music Performance: Gehlhaar’s Eyesound 2010

Tuesday 1 October 2013 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

5TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Ensemble Transmission

Premieres by Matteo Giuliani, Anthony Green, George Christofi and Iannis Xenakis

Wednesday 2 October 2013 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

5TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Lecture: Thomas Simaku

“Soliloquy Cycle – Sweet and/or Sour?”

Friday 4 October 2013 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

5TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Lecture: Nouritza Matossian

“Recollections on the Cyprus Music Workshop 1973”

Saturday 5 October 2013 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

5TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Dance Performance: Arianna Economou

John Cage’s Sixteen Dances

Saturday 5 October 2013 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

5TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Lecture: Neue Vocalsolisten

“Contemporary Vocal Techniques as used in Seminal Works of the 20th Century”

Sunday 6 October 2013 /The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

5TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Neue Vocalsolisten

Premieres by Lucia Ronchetti, José-María Sánchez-Verdú, Andreas Dohmen, Carola Bauckholt and Luciano Berio

Sunday 6 October 2013 /The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

VIOLIN & PIANO RECITAL

Raskin & Fleischmann

Works by Mozart and Brahms and Korngold

Tuesday 22 October 2013 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

SCREENINGS AT THE SHOE FACTORY

Mama Illegal / Director: Ed Moschitz

Abendland / Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Danube Hospital / Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter

727 Days Without Karamo / Director: Anja Salomonowitz

27 – 30 October 2013 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

VIOLIN & PIANO RECITAL

Elif Akyar (violin) & Hyun Sook Tekin (piano)

Works by Jean Marie Leclair, Cesar Franck, Henryk Wieniawski, Camille Saint Saens

Thursday 7 November 2013 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

SCREENINGS AT THE SHOE FACTORY

The Wagner Files / Director: Ralf Pleger

Lessons of Darkness / Director: Werner Herzog

22 – 23 November 2013 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Gloria Campaner

Works by Schubert & Rachmaninoff and List’s transcriptions of Verdi, Wagner and Schubert

Friday 6 December 2013 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia / 8.30pm

LECTURE

John Franklin

“Kinyras and the Musical Stratigraphy of early Cyprus”

Friday 13 January 2012 /The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

Screenings at the Shoe Factory

Koyaanisqatsi – Life Out of Balance / Director: Godfrey Reggio

Powaqqatsi – Life in Transformation / Director: Godfrey Reggio

The Animals Film / Director: Victor Schonfeld

Our daily Bread / Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Into Great Silence / Director: Philip Gröning

The Salzburg Festival / Director: Tony Palmer

Andrés Segovia in Portrait / Director: Christopher Nupen

A film about Benjamin Britten / Director: Tony Palmer

The Genius of Photography / Director: Tim Kirkby

My Architect / Director: Nathaniel Kahn

Black Sun / Director: Gary Tarn

Beethoven & Resonance / Live Recording from Auditorium San Fedele in Milan, June 2011

18 January – 25 March 2012 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Chilingirian String Quartet

String Quartets by Ravel and Haydn and Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet (with clarinettist George Georgiou)

Thursday 26 January 2012 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Tchaikovsky Trio

Piano trios by Tcherepnin, Dvořák and Shostakovich

Wednesday 8 February 2012 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Yevgeny Sudbin

Works by Scarlatti, Chopin, Liszt, Medtner, Rachmaninov and Scriabin

Sunday 19 February 2012 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

BAROQUE RECITAL

Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano) & Jean-Marc Aymes (harpsichord)

Programme dedicated to Italian Female composers of the Seicento

Tuesday 20 March 2012 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

Violin and Piano Recital

Wolfgang Schröder (violin) & Florian Uhlig (piano)

Works by Mozart, Ravel and Richard Strauss

Wednesday 21 March 2012 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Quatuor Tana

Works by Schubert, Ligeti, Raphaël Cendo, Yan Robbin and Andreas Moustoukis

Thursday 29 March 2012 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Alice Sara Ott

Works by Mozart, Schubert and Mussorgsky

Sunday 1 April 2012 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

HARPSICHORD RECITAL

Mahan Esfahani

Works by Byrd, Buxtehude, Scarlatti and J.S. Bach

Wednesday 25 April 2012 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

12th INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Lars Hannibal (lute) & Michala Petri (recorders)

Wednesday 16 May 2012 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

12th INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Streichtrio Berlin

Wednesday 23 May 2012 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

12th INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Violin: Daishin Kashimoto, Alina Pogostkina, Levon Chilingirian, Maja Avramovic, Boris Brovtsyn Viola: Diemut Poppen, Philip Dukes, David Abrahamyan

Cello: Alexander Chaushian, Tim Park, Boris Andrianov

Guitar: Timotheos Stylianides

Flute: Emmanuel Pahud

Clarinet: Chen Halevi

Piano: Ashley Wass, Matan Porat, Vahan Mardirossian

25-27, 30-31 May, 1 June 2012 / Royal Manor House, Kouklia

12th INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Violin: Daishin Kashimoto, Boris Brovtsyn, Alina Pogostkina,Levon Chilingirian

Viola: Diemut Poppen, David Abrahamyan

Cello: Alexander Chaushian, Boris Andrianov

Saturday 2 June 2012 / The Olive Grove, Delikipos

12th INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Quartet

Friday 8 June 2012 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

SCREENINGS AT THE SHOE FACTORY

DANISH DOCUMENTARY WEEK

Into Eternity / Director: Michael Madsen

The President / Director: Christoffer Guldbrandsen

Armadillo / Director: Janus Metz

The Good Life / Director: Eva Mulvad

Out of love / Director: Birgitte Stærmose

Tuesday 19 – Friday 22 June 2012 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

JAZZ @ THE OLIVE GROVE

State of Hessen Youth Jazz Big Band Orchestra

Saturday 30 June 2012 / The Olive Grove, Delikipos

RECITAL

Narek Hakhnazaryan (cello) & Gayane Akhnazaryan (piano)

Works by Schubert, Franck and Ysaye

Friday 6 July 2012 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

JAZZ @ THE OLIVE GROVE

Tigran Hammasyan Trio

Sunday 22 July 2012 / The Olive Grove, Delikipos

4TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Arirang Wind Quintet & Marios Nicolaou (percussion)

Works and premieres by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Christian Mason, Iannis Xenakis, Peteris Vasks, Isang Yun, Gyorgy Ligeti

9 September 2012 / The Olive Grove, Delikipos 8:30pm

4TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Quartetto Prometeo

A Musical Representation of Dante’s Divine comedy with twelve world premieres by Vito Zuraj, Manuel Rodriguez, Antonin Servière, Carlo Ciceri, Franco Venturini, Aurélien Dumont, Mirtru Escalona, Antonio Covello, Roberto Vetrano, Vittorio Montalti, Evis Sammoutis, Pasquale Corrado

15 September 2012 / The Olive Grove, Delikipos 8:30pm

4TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Kairos String Quartet

Premieres by Toshio Hosokawa, Iannis Xenakis, Giacinto Scelsi, Evis Sammoutis, Georg Friedrich Haas

24 September 2012 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

4TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

The Nieuw Ensemble

Premieres by Tasos Stylianou, Schoenberg, Musheng Chen, Anton Webern, Jonathan Harvey

26 September 2012 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

4TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Ensemble Aleph

Premieres by Christina Athinodorou, Dominique Clément, Tomi Raisanen, Iannis Xenakis, Evis Sammoutis, Helmut Lachenmann, John Cage

27 September 2012 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

4TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

El Perro Andaluz

Premieres by Ivan Fedele, Sophia Serghi, Iannis Xenakis, Thomas Simaku, Brian Herrington, Nicolaus A. Huber

28 September 2012 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

EXHIBITION

United States of Europe

A travelling collective exhibition about European identity and today’s Europe

17 September – 14 October 2012

BRAZILIAN JAZZ CONCERT

Ithamara Koorax

Friday 5 October 2012 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

LECTURE

Prof. Pierre von Meiss

“Future challenges for the European Architecture and Urban Design”

Monday 15 October 2012 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Sergei Babayan

Works by J.S. Bach, Sergei Rachmaninov, Olivier Messiaen and Vladimir Ryabov

Tuesday 16 October 2012 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

BOOK LAUNCH

Dr Ioannis Lyras ‘

‘The Secret of the Brazilian Beauty”

Thursday 18 October 2012 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

GUITAR RECITAL

Marcos Vinicius

Friday 26 October 2012 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Emmanuel Despax

Works by Bach, Busoni, Liszt, Mussorgsky

Tuesday 30 October 2012 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

9th Brazilian Film Festival

5 November –10 November / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Ashley Wass

Works by Beethoven, Liszt & Barber

Wednesday 14 November 2012 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CELLO & PIANO RECITAL

Maria Anissegou (cello) & Antonis Anissegos (piano)

Works by Shostakovich and Rachmaninov

Friday 23 November 2012 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

VIOLIN RECITAL

Peter Sheppard Skӕrved

Bach’s Partitas and Sonatas interspersed with premieres by contemporary composers Lars Bagger and Sadie Harrison

Thursday 29 November 2012 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

LIVE POETRY & MUSIC

Stuart Silver

“What we should have said”

Friday 7 December 2012 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Trio Ex Aequo

Works by Haydn, Beethoven and Dvorak

Thursday 20 January 2011 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Benjamin Grosvenor

Works by Gershwin, Ravel, Mompou, Chopin and Liszt.

Wednesday, 16 February 2011 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Mei Yi Foo

Works Shostakovich, Guibaidulina, Kurtag and Liszt

Thursday 10 March 2011 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

JAZZ @ THE SHOE FACTORY

Charis Ioannou Jazz Quartet

Friday 18 March 2011 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Cyprus Piano Trio

Works by Beethoven, Babadjanian and Arensky

Friday 8 April 2011 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Hayk Melikyan

Works by Takemitsu, Berio, Karksy/Melikyan, Xenakis, Stravinsky, Part, Babadjanyan and Dellalian

Friday 15 April 2011 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

11th INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Paavali Jumppanen (piano)

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Friday 6 May 2011 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

11th INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Violin: Daishin Kashimoto, Maja Avramović, Tamaki Kawakubo

Viola: Diemut Poppen, Amihai Grosz

Cello: Alexander Chaushian, Timothy Park

Flute: Emmanuel Pahud

Soprano: Margarita Elia

Piano: Ashley Wass, Vahan Mardirossian, Philippe Cassard

Tuesday 24 – Saturday 28 May 2011 / Royal Manor House, Kouklia

11th INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Philip Cassard (piano)

Works by Liszt, Schubert, Debussy

Sunday 29 May 2011 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

JAZZ @ THE SHOE FACTORY

Bruce Barth Trio

Thursday 2 June 2011/ The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO FOUR-HAND RECITAL

Alessio Bax & Lucille Chung

Works by Stravinsky, Brahms and Piazzola

Wednesday, 29 June 2011 / The Shoe Factory, 304 Ermou, Nicosia

3rd CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Exaudi Vocal Ensemble

Premieres by John Cage, Stephen Chase, Georges Aperghis, Dmitri Kourliandski, Cornelius Cardew, Amber Priestley, Christopher Fox, Evis Sammoutis, Howard Skempton

Sunday 11 September 2011 / The Olive Grove, Delikipos

3rd CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Trio Iama

Premieres by Dimitri Papageorgiou, Carlos Maria Stella, Demetris Economou, George Christofi,

Marc Yeats

Monday 12 September 2011 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

3rd CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Musiques Nouvelles Trio

Premieres by Christopher Trapani, Giacinto Scelsi, Daryl Jamieson, Evis Sammoutis, Jean-Paul Dessy, Giacinto Scelsi, Peter Klanac, Panayotis Kokoras, Victor Kissine

Wednesday 14 September 2011 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

3rd CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble

Premieres by Takuya Imahori, Davide Ianni, Alexander Khubeev, Vladimir Tarnopolsky, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luca Francesconi, Joshua Fineberg

Thursday 15 September 2011 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

3rd CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble

Premieres by Brian Ferneyhough, Sungji Hong, Thomas Simaku, Franck Bedrossian, Joshua Fineberg, Ian Dickson, Tazul Tajuddin, Tristan Murail

Friday 16 September 2011 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

GUITAR RECITAL

Timotheos Stylianides

Works by Manuel De Falla, Miguel Llobet, Joaquin Turina, Dionisio Aguado, Joaquin Rodrigo, Miguel Trillo-Figueroa

Thursday 13 October 2011 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

8th Brazilian Film Festival

27 October – 1 November 2011 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

Iannis Xenakis – In memoriam International Conference

Lectures, Installations, Concerts, Screenings by Nouritsa Matossian, Makis Solomos, Sharon Kanach, Ermis Theodorakis, Rohan de Saram

3-5 November 2011 / European University Cyprus & The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Javier Perianes
Works by Schubert, Debussy and Chopin

9 November 2011 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

JAZZ @ THE SHOE FACTORY

The Tigran Hamasyan Trio

23 November 2011 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Dissonart Ensemble

Works and premieres by Salvatore Sciarrino, Tristan Murail, Dimitri Papageorgiou,

Christoph Herndler, Vassos Nikolaou, Evis Sammoutis

29 November 2011 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

BOOK LAUNCH

Lily Michaelides

“The City Needs No Recommendation”

Sunday 11 December 2011/ The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

GUITAR DUO RECITAL

Bessy Diagoma & Antonis Hatzinikolaou

Works by Scarlatti, Rodrigo, Walton, Ryan and Ivanovic

Monday 19 December 2011

The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Yevgeny Sudbin

Works by Haydn, Chopin, Liszt and Ravel.

24 January 2010 / The Shoe Factory

SCREENINGS AT THE SHOE FACTORY

Richter: the Enigma / Director: Bruno Monsaingeon

Glenn Gould Hereafter / Director: Bruno Monsaingeon

The Ramallah Concert – Knowledge is the Beginning / Director: Paul Smaczny

Ballet Russes / Directors: Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine

The Art of Singing, Golden Voices of the Opera / Director: Donald Sturrock

The Callas Conversations Volume II / Director: Guy Seligmann

Shostakovich Against Stalin – The War Symphonies / Director: Larry Weinstein

27 January – 16 May 2010 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Leticia Muñoz Moreno (violin)

Alexander Chaushian (cello)

Polina Leschenko (piano)

Works by Shostakovich, Rachmaninov and Franck

Wednesday 17 February 2010 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Ensemble Intercontemporain

Works by Pierre Boulez, Gérard Grisey, Olivier Messiaën, Gérard Pesson, Tristan Murail, as well as a world-premiere by Cypriot composer, Vassos Nicolaou

Friday 26 February 2010 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Maka Borchashvili

Celebrating Chopin

Monday 1 March 2010 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

JAZZ @ THE SHOE FACTORY

Garrison Fewell (guitar)

Frank Harrison (piano)

Davide Petrocca (bass)

Stephen Keogh (drums)

Friday 5 March 2010 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Yiannis Georgiou

Works by Bach, Brahms, Chopin, Prokofiev and Rachmaninov

Friday 19 March 2010 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

LECTURE

Lord Watson

“Language and International Understanding”

Monday 22 March 2010 / University of Cyprus

CONCERT

Kyros Patsalides (baritone)

Viviana Yannaki (soprano)

David Arronson (piano)

Arias and duets by Gluck, Donizetti, Rossini, Verdi, Puccini, Bizet, Kurt Weill and Manos Hadjidakis

30 April 2010 / Pallas Theatre, Nicosia

CONCERT

Philharmonia Quartet Berlin & Dionysis Grammenos

Works by Mozart, Shostakovich and Brahms

Monday 10 May 2010 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

EXHIBITION

Mario Klinger

“Sublime Porte”

17 May – 11 June 2010 / Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia

10th International Pharos Chamber Music Festival

Violin: Levon Chilingirian, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Hrachya Avanesyan, Lena Neudauer

Viola: Philip Dukes, Diemut Poppen, Razvan Popovici

Cello: Alexander Chaushian, Natalia Gutman, Oleg Kogan

Double-bass: Nabil Shehata

Piano: Ashley Wass, Konstantin Lifshitz

Horn: Radovan Vlatkovic

Clarinet: Charles Neidich

Bassoon: Amy Harman

Soprano: Zandra McMaster

29 May – 4 June 2010 / Royal Manor House, Kouklia

Exhibition

Lisa Milroy

“Shouting from A Rock”

21 June – 27 August 2010 / Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia

PHAROS AT THE WIGMORE HALL

Julia Fischer (violin)

Diemut Poppen (viola)

Alexander Chaushian (cello)

JS Bach’s Goldberg Variations (arr. for string trio by Dmitry Sitkovetsky)

2 July 2010 / Wigmore Hall, London, UK

2nd International Contemporary Music Festival

Kreutzer String Quartet

Jan Philip Schulze (piano)

Roger Heaton (clarinet)

Michael Thompson (horn)

Virginie Bove (flute)

Premieres by over 15 contemporary composers including Ligeti, Kagel, Takemitsu, Kurtag, Reich, Scelsi, Xenakis and Berio. World Premiere of The Pharos Quartets – four newly commissioned Works by four Cypriot composers: Andreas Moustoukis, Vassos Nikolaou, Yiannis Kyriakides and Evis Sammoutis.

1 – 3 September 2010 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

2nd International Contemporary Music Festival

Lee K. Dance Company

Kroumata Percussion Ensemble

Works by Luc Ferrari, György Ligeti, Iannis Xenakis, Sven-David Sandstrom, Steve Reich, John Eriksson, John Cage

4 September 2010 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

Brazilian Jazz Concert

Rodrigo Lampreia

Friday 24 September 2010 / PlusSea Lifestyle Bar, Limassol

VIOLIN & PIANO RECITAL

Danae Papamatthäou-Matschke (violin) & Uwe Matschke (piano)

Works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Cesar Franck, Demetris Terzakis

Friday 8 October 2010 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

7th Brazilian Film Festival

10 – 15 October 2010 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

SCREENINGS AT THE SHOE FACTORY

El Sistema / Director: Paul Smaczny & Maria Stodmeier

Harold Pinter: Art, Truth & Politics

Toward the Unknown Region – Malcolm Arnold: A story of survival / Director: Tony Palmer

Claudio Arrau: The Emperor

November 14, 28 & December 1, 5 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Cristo Barios (clarinet) & Elias String Quartet

Works by Schumann, Britten, and a world premiere by Christina Athinodorou

Wednesday 24 November 2010 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Rohan de Saram (cello)

Movses Pogossian (violin)

George Georgiou (clarinet)

Artur Avanesov (piano)

Works by Avanesov, Andreas Tsiartas, Evis Sammoutis, Kodaly and Messiaen

Tuesday 14 December 2010 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

VOICE & PIANO RECITAL

Veronique Gens (soprano) & Jeff Cohen (piano)

30 January 2009 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

PHAROS WINTER MUSIC WEEK

Violin: Priya Mitchell, Ayako Tanaka, Catherine Leonard
Viola: Lise Berthaud, Ylvali Zilliacus
Cello: Alexander Chaushian
Piano: Vahan Mardirossian, Manolis Neophytou, Katharina Treutler
Clarinet: Denitsa Laffchieva

15, 19, 20 February 2009 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

CONCERT

Kuss String Quartet

20 March 2009 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

CONCERT

The Hilliard Ensemble & Chilingirian String Quartet

14 April 2009 / Casteliotissa Hall, Nicosia

VOICE & PIANO RECITAL

Cleo Mitilineou (soprano) & Maria Antoniou Chimonidou (piano)

29 April 2009 / Casteliotissa Hall, Nicosia

9th INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Violin: Daishin Kashimoto, Karen Gomyo, Georgios Demertzis, Levon Chilingirian
Viola: Heiichiro Ohyama, Vladimir Mendelssohn. Diemut Poppen
Cello: Steven Isserlis, Timothy Park, Alexander Chaushian
Piano: Alessio Bax, Ashley Wass, Philippe Cassard, Keren Hanan
Soprano: Gitta-Maria Sjoberg

28, 29, 30, 31 May and 2, 3, 5 June / Royal Manor House, Kouklia

1st INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Aaron Shorr (piano)
Peter Sheppard Skӕrved (violin)
Roger Heaton (clarinet)
Nancy Rogers (flute)
Bridget MacRae (cello)
Margarita Elia (soprano)

26-30 August / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Vahan Mardirossian

18 September 2009 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

EXHIBITION

Elizabeth Hoak Dorering

“amanuensis”

30 September – 6 November 2009 / Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia

6th BRAZILIAN FILM FESTIVAL

4 – 9 October 2009 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

GUITAR RECITAL

Demetris Regginos

22 October 2009 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

BRAZILIAN JAZZ CONCERT

Chico Pinheiro & group

31 October 2009 / Half-Note Music Club, Limassol

CONCERT

The Apple Hill String Quartet

November 3, 2009 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

CONCERT

Leipzig String Quartet

11 November 2009 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

CONCERT

Pharos Piano Trio

20 November 2009 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

BOOK LAUNCH

Anna Maria Maiolino

23 November 2009 / Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia

EXHIBITION

Rosángela Rennó

“Ring”

24 November 2009 – 15 January 2010 / Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art

JAZZ @ THE SHOE FACTORY

Edward Simon’s Jazz Trio

24 November 2009 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Me Yi Foo

26 November 2009 / The Shoe Factory, Nicosia

PHAROS AT THE WIGMORE HALL

Violin: Yuri Zhislin, Levon Chilingirian
Viola: Alexander Zemtsov
Cello: Alexander Chaushian, David Geringas
Piano: Martino Tirimo, Ashley Wass, Bengt Forsberg
Chilingirian Quartet

7 January 2008 / Wigmore Hall, London, UK

EXHIBITION

Laura J. Padgett

13 February – 21 March 2008 / Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art

VOICE & PIANO RECITAL

Margarita Elia (soprano)
Manolis Neophytou (piano)

27 February 2008 / Castelliotissa Hall, Nicosia

PHAROS AT THE TCHAIKOVSKY CONSERVATORY

Alexander Chaushian (cello)
Alexander Ghindin (piano)

4 March 2008 / P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Small Hall, Moscow

CONCERT

Kopelman String Quartet
Elizaveta Kopelman
(piano)

12 March 2008 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Grigory Sokolov

4 April 2008 / Strovolos Municipal Theatre, Nicosia

VIOLIN & PIANO RECITAL

Haroutune Bendelian (violin) & Lorna Griffitt (piano)

16 April 2008 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

CONCERT

Academy of St Martin in the Fields Concert & Joshua Bell (director and soloist)

7 May 2008 / Strovolos Municipal Theatre, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Matan Porat

20 May 2008 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

8th INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Violin: Alina Ibragimova, Henning Kraggerud, Jennifer Frautschi, Ilya Gringolts, Levon Chilingirian, Anahit Kurtikyan
Viola: Diemut Poppen, Yuri Zhislin
Cello: Aram Talalian, Alex Chaushian, Christoph Richter
Clarinet: Chen Halevi
Horn: Radovan Vlatkovic
Piano: Yevgeny Sudbin, Alexander Ghindin, Ashley Wass
Romina Basso (mezzo-soprano)
Markellos Chryssicopoulos (harpsichord)

29 May – 6 June 2008 / Royal Manor House, Kouklia

CONCERT

Academy of Ancient Music Orchestra

Frank de Bruine (oboe)
Under the direction of Pavlo Beznosiuk (violin)

22 June 2008 / The Olive Grove, Delikipos

EXHIBITION

Ronald De Bloeme

“Best Discount”

28 July – 25 August 2008 / Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art

OPERA

Academy of Ancient Music

Chorus of the Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr (harpsichord/director)
Wilke te Brummelstroete (Dido)
Maarten Koningsberger (Aeneas)
Lorna Anderson (Belinda)
Giles Underwood (The Sorcerer)

Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas & Choral Works by Christopher Gibbons

2 October 2008 / Strovolos Municipal Theatre, Nicosia

EXHIBITION

José Patrício

8 September – 2 October 2008 / Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art

GUITAR RECITAL

Vasilios Avraam

13 October 2008 / Casteliotissa, Nicosia

BRAZILIAN JAZZ MUSIC

Botafogo & Catia Werneck

17 October 2008 / Half Note, Limassol

EXHIBITION

Cao Guimarães

7 October – 3 November 2008 / Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art

5th Brazilian Film Festival

6, 8, 22, 30 October and 2 November / Artos Foundation, Nicosia

GUITAR RECITAL

Yamandu Costa

3 November 2008 /Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre (Powerhouse)

PIANO RECITAL

Pablo Rossi

23 October 2008 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Paavali Jumppanen

12 November 2008 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

PHAROS = TEN

Celebrating Pharos’ Tenth Anniversary with a big exhibition and a series of short concerts

15 October – 9 November 2008 / Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre (Powerhouse)

Seminar, Master-Class and Concert Dialogue

The Euphony Project

Daniel Levy (piano)

24-27 November 2008 / Nicosia

CONCERT

Le Concert Spirituel

Under the direction of Hervé Niquet

2 December 2008 / Strovolos Municipal Theatre, Nicosia

CONCERT

Angelos Angelides (clarinet)
Dusko Sarkvitch (clarinet)
Andri Hadjiandreou (piano)

11 December 2008 / Casteliotissa Hall, Nicosia

EXHIBITION

Nicolas Robbio

1 December 2008 -15 January 2009 / Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art

CELLO & PIANO RECITAL

Alex Chaushian (cello)
Ashley Wass (piano)

24 January 2007 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

VOICE & PIANO RECITAL

Angelica Cathariou (mezzo soprano)
Emmanuel Olivier (piano)

26 February 2007 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

CONCERT

Leipzig Quartet

18 March 2007 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

CLARINET & PIANO RECITAL

George Georgiou (clarinet)
Agata Jozwik (piano)

2 May 2007 / Castelliotissa Hall, Nicosia

7th INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Violin: Levon Chilingirian, David Juritz, Christoph Poppen
Viola: Alexander Zemtsov, Diemut Poppen, Angela Giannaki
Cello: Steven Isserlis, David Geringas, Alexander Chaushian
Piano: Philippe Cassard, Ashley Wass, Ian Brown
Flute: Sharon Bezaly

May 29 – May 31 2009 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia
June 2 – June 5 2009 / Royal Manor House, Kouklia

CYPRUS – RUSSIA GALA AT THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE

Moscow Virtuosi

Under the direction of Vladmir Spivakov
In aid of Radiomarathon Foundation for Children with Special Needs

7 September 2007 / Presidential Palace, Nicosia

EXHIBITION

AES+F

14 September – 10 October 2007 / Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art

VOICE & PIANO RECITAL

Soile Isokoski (soprano)
Marita Viitasalo (piano)

10 October 2007 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

4th Brazilian Film Festival

2, 4, 9, 11, 18, 25 October 2007 / The Weaving Mill, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Arnaldo Cohen

16 October 2007 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

EXHIBITION

Anna Maria Maiolino

25 October – 15 December 2007 / Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art

BOOK LAUNCH

Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain

25 October 2007 / Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art

BRAZILIAN JAZZ MUSIC

Ive Mendes

26 October 2007 / Half Note Music Club, Limassol

CONCERT

Altenberg Trio Wien

7 November 2007 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

PHAROS AT THE WIGMORE HALL

Alexander Chaushian (cello)
Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)

3 December 2007 / Wigmore Hall, London, UK

CONCERT

Nicholas Papageorgiou (percussion),
Aude Marie Auphan (cello)
Virginie Bove (flute)

28 November 2007 / Castelliotissa Hall, Nicosia

CONCERT

Lendvai String Trio

13 December 2007 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

VIOLIN & PIANO RECITAL

Victoria Mavromoustaki (violin)
Eleni Mavromoustaki (piano)

20 December 2007 / Castelliotissa Hall, Nicosia

CONCERT

Trio Ondine

13 January 2006 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

CONCERT

Emma Kirkby and London Baroque

3 February 2006 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

CONCERT

Zehetmair Quartet

3 March 2006 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Grigory Sokolov

10 March 2006 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

EXHIBITION

Richard Wentworth

9 May – 31 July 2006 / Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art

CONCERT

Ensemble Modern

Friday 19 May 2006 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

CONCERT

Chilingirian Quartet & Bengt Forsberg (piano)

Sunday 28 May 2006 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

6th INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Violin: Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Yuri Zhislin, Levon Chilingirian
Viola: Alexander Zemtsov
Cello: Steven Isserlis, Alexander Chaushian
Piano: Jeremy Menuhin, Melvyn Tan, Vahan Mardirossian

28 May – 6 June 2006 / Royal Manor House, Kouklia

3rd Brazilian Film Festival

2, 4, 9, 11, 16, 18 October 2006 / ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation

LECTURE

Sergio Moreira Lima

“Challenges and Opportunities in National and International Affairs”

5 October 2006 / University of Cyprus, Nicosia

BRAZILIAN JAZZ MUSIC

Liquidificador

18 & 19 October 2006 / Club Red, Nicosia

BOOK LAUNCH

Antonio Manuel

19 October 2006 / ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation

BAROQUE CONCERT

Naoki Kitaya Ensemble

23 October 2006 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

DANCE PERFORMANCE

Jean Abreu and company

27 October 2006 / Strovolos Municipal Theatre, Nicosia

EXHIBITION

Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain

13 October 2006 – 15 November 2006 / Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art

VOICE & PIANO RECITAL

Marina Poplavskaya (soprano)
Julian Gallant (piano)

18 November 2006 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

Architect of Sound Multi-Media Encounter

Rohan de Saram (cello)

Presented by Nouritza Matossian

The Life and Music of Iannis Xenakis

1 December 2006 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

ILLUSTRATED LECTURE

Nouritza Matossian

“The dual approach of Xenakis’ work as architect and composer”

4 December 2006 / ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation

CONCERT

Szymanowski String Quartet

14 December 2006 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

EXHIBITION

Daniel Gustav Cramer & Haris Epaminonda

29 November 2006 – 6 February 2007 /Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia

VOICE & PIANO RECITAL

Jonathan Lemalu (baritone)
Malcom Martineau (piano)

24 January 2005 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

ARTALK

Claudia Wegener
Art on the Move: Situating New Nomadism, Migration and Mobility within Contemporary Art

2 February 2005 / Artos Foundation Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Paavali Jumppanen

11 February 2005 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

ARTALK

Catherine David
Art on the Move: Situating New Nomadism, Migration and Mobility within Contemporary Art

9 March 2005 / Artos Foundation, Nicosia

CONCERT

Fibonacci Sequence

10 March 2005 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

ARTALK

Michael Haerdter
Art on the Move: Situating New Nomadism, Migration and Mobility within Contemporary Art

6 April 2005 / Artos Foundation, Nicosia

CONCERT

Trio Wanderer

10 May 2005 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

ARTALK

Ursula Biemann
Art on the Move: Situating New Nomadism, Migration and Mobility within Contemporary Art

11 May 2005 / Artos Foundation, Nicosia

CONCERT

Skampa Quartet

13 May 2005 / Royal Manor House, Kouklia
14 May 2005 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

CELLO & PIANO RECITAL

Peters Bruns (cello)
Roglit Ishay (piano)

17 May 2005 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

LECTURE

Frank Lubbers

19 May 2005 / Artos Foundation, Nicosia

CONCERT

Ysaye Quartet

20 May 2005 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

CONCERT

Florilegium

27 May 2005 / Royal Manor House, Kouklia
28 May 2005 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

CONCERT

Moscow Virtuosi

6 June 2005 / Strovolos Municipal Theatre, Nicosia

LECTURE

Lucia Nagib “Brazilian Cinema”

7 October 2005

Brazilian Film Festival

7 – 31 October 2005 / Weaving Mill, Nicosia

CONCERT

Gaede String Trio & Susanne Grutzmann (piano)

14 October 2005 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

EXHIBITION

Antonio Manuel

18 October 2005 / Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art


CONCERT

Nash Ensemble

4 November 2005 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

EXHIBITION

Joanna Jones

“New Paintings”

30 November 2005 – 5 January 2006 / Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art

CONCERT

Andrew Manze and the English Concert

5 December 2005 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

VOICE & PIANO RECITAL

Carmen Serrano (soprano)
Antonio Lopez Serrano (piano)

13 December 2005 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

CONCERT

Kopelman Quartet

17 January 2004 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

VOICE & PIANO RECITAL

Angeles Blancas (soprano)
Duncan Gifford (piano)

30 January 2004 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

SCHUBERT SERIES

Martino Tirimo (piano)
The Chilingirian Quartet
Patricia Rosario (soprano)
Martyn Hill (tenor)
Stephen Loges (baritone)

16,17,19,20 February 2004 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

CONCERT

Amati Quartet

12 March 2004 / PASYSY Auditorium, Nicosia

VOICE & PIANO RECITAL

Daniil Shtoda (tenor)
Larissa Gergieva (piano)

30 March 2004 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Naida Cole

16 April 2004 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

4th International Pharos Chamber Music Festival

30 April – 31 May 2004

CONCERT

Belcea Quartet

6 October 2004 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

Capoeira Performance

London School of Capoeira

9 October 2004 / Melina Merkouri Hall, Nicosia

EXHIBITION

Sebastião Salgado

“Terra”

13- 31 October 2004 / Fotodos Gallery, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Piotr Anderszewski

3 November 2004 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

CONCERT

Gould Piano Trio

10 December 2004 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

CELLO & PIANO RECITAL

Alexander Chaushian (cello)
Natasha Ardasheva (piano)

16 January 2003 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

CONCERT

Trio Parnassus

30 & 31 January 2003 / Markideion Theatre, Paphos & PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Sarkis Zakarian

10 & 11 February 2003 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia & Rialto Theatre, Limassol

VOICE & PIANO RECITAL

Isabel Bayarakdarian (soprano)
Serouj Kradjian (piano)

25 February 2003 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

George-Emmanuel Lazaridis

5 & 7 March 2003 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia & Rialto Theatre, Limassol

CONCERT

Levon Chilingirian (violin)
Wolfgang Schröder (violin)
Samuel Barsegian (viola),
Alexander Chaushian (cello)

2 & 4 April 2003 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia & Royal Manor House, Kouklia

LECTURE

Professor Claude Mutafian
“The Political Geography of Armenia from Ancient Times to the Present”

9 April 2003 / Castelliotissa Hall, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Mihaela Ursuleasa

14 April 2003 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

CONCERT

The London Sinfonietta

17 April 2003 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

CONCERT

The Razumovsky Ensemble

5 May 2003 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

3rd International Pharos Chamber Music Festival

The Musicke Companye

Sergey Khachatryan (violin)
Lusine Khachatryan (piano)
Daniela Lehner (mezzo-soprano)
Lefki Karpodini (piano)
Alessio Bax (piano)
Clarinet Trio
The Greenberg Trio
The Pharos Soloists

16 May – 11 June 2003 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

TALK

Justin Hill
“Contemporary China”

10 September 2003 / Nicosia

CONCERT

Vienna Piano Trio

8 October 2003, PASYDY Auditorium / Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Luiz Fernando Benedini

22 October 2003 PASYDY Auditorium 2003 / Nicosia

LECTURE & WORKSHOP

Richard Geldard
“Heraclitus and ancient Greek philosophy”

31 October – 1 November 2003 / Goethe-Zentrum, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Louis Demetrius Alvanis

5 November 2003 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

TALK

Pavan Varma
“Insight into Indian society”

12 November 20032003 / Nicosia

EXHIBITION

Benedetta Bonichi

18-30 November 2003 / Castelliotissa Hall, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Javier Perianes

19 November 2003 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

CONCERT

Ensemble Wien & Rainer Honeck

28 & 29 November 2003 / Royal Manor House Kouklia & PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

EXHIBITION

Joanna Jones

7-14, December 2003 / Melina Mercouri Hall, Nicosia

CONCERT

The Pharos Soloists

10 & 11 December 2003 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia & Royal Manor House, Kouklia

CONCERT

The Pharos Soloists

Sergey Khachatryan (violin)
Lusine Khachatryan (piano)

6 December 2002 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Arnaldo Cohen

6 November 2002 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

EXHIBITION

Sergei Parajanov

16 October – 15 November 2002 / Nicosia

CONCERT

Borodin String Quartet

14 October 2002 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

CELLO & PIANO RECITAL

Alfredo Perl (piano)
Guido Schiefen (cello)

10-11 October 2002 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

Exhibition and Book Launch

Sarkis Hamalbashian

26 September – 7 October 2002 / Nicosia

LECTURE

Baroness Cox

“Human Rights”

24 September 2002 / Nicosia

CONCERT

The Pharos Soloists

24-27 May 2002 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

2nd International Pharos Chamber Music Festival

The Vienna String Soloists
Spiros Pisinos (piano)

13-17 April 2002 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

25th Sao Paolo Biennale

Azat Sargsyan

23 March – 2 June 2002 / Brazil: Armenian Pavilion

BOOK LAUNCH

“Yearning for the Sea”

5 March 2002 / London

CONCERT

Chilingirian Quartet 30th Anniversary Concerts

26-27 February 2002 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Qian Wu

25 January 2002 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

VOICE & PIANO RECITAL

Oxana Lomova (soprano)
Evgenia Cheglakova (piano)

11 December 2001 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

LECTURE

Professor Victor Bulmer-Thomas

“Co-operation and tension in the transatlantic relationship: which force will prove stronger in the long-run?”

27 November 2001 / Nicosia

CONCERT

Trio Parnassus

14-16 November 2001 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Arnaldo Cohen (piano)

1 November 2001 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

CONCERT

National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia

24 – 29 May 2001 / Cyprus Tour

PIANO RECITAL

Anna Malikova

10 April 2001 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

CELLO & PIANO RECITAL

Alexander Chaushian (cello)
Anna Saradjian (piano)

16 March 2001 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

1st Pharos International Chamber Music Festival

Chilingirian Quartet
Leopold String Trio
Jeremy Menuhin (piano)

6-8 February 2001 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

Book Launch

“Yearning for the Sea”

8 January 2001 / Melina Mercouri Hall, Nicosia

LECTURE

Sir Christopher Ball

2 November 2000 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Alexander Ghindin

27 September 2000 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

2nd International Biennale at Gyumri, Armenia

Supporting of the participation of Cypriot artist Nicos Kouroushis and Argentinean artist Laura Davis

August 2000 / Armenia

VIOLA & PIANO RECITAL

Rivka Golani (viola)
Arnon Erez (piano)

24 May 2000 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

CONCERT

The Aviv String Quartet

10 April 2000 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Alfredo Perl

23 March 2000 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

PIANO RECITAL

Armen Babakhanian

1 February 2000 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

EXHIBITION

Ararat Sarkissian

“Archetypes”

11-21 January 2000 / Lobby Gallery, Nicosia

EXHIBITION

“Stream of Fire”
New Art from Armenia

September 1999 / Jordan National Gallery

DANCE PERFORMANCE / EXHIBITION

Arianna Economou & Horst Wierstall

August 1999 / Yerevan

CONCERT

The Choir of Lincoln College, Oxford

28 June – 2 July 1999 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

GUITAR RECITAL

Slava Grigoryan

1 June 1999 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

EXHIBITION

Sarkis Hamalbashian

21 May – 30 June 1999 / Nicosia

VIOLIN & PIANO RECITAL

Leonidas Kavakos (violin)
Peter Nagy (piano)

5 May 1999 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

VOICE & PIANO

Lina Mkrtchyan (contralto)
Evgeny Talisman (piano)

27 April 1999 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia


One Person Show

Nouritza Matossian

“The Life of Arshile Gorky”

20 April 1999 / Nicosia

VIOLIN & PIANO RECITAL

Sergey Khachatryan (violin)
Lusine Khachatryan (piano)

24 September 1998 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

VIOLIN & PIANO RECITAL

Makrouhy Papazian (violin)
Sarkis Zakarian (piano)

8 December 1997 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

CONCERT

The Chilingirian Quartet

15 May 1997 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

SACRED MUSIC

Moscow Armenian Capella Choir

28 April – 2 May 1997 / PASYDY Auditorium, Nicosia

EXHIBITION

“Stream of Fire, New Art from Armenia”

September 1995 / Nicosia
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