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Programme:
Η. Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture, Op. 9
L. van Beethoven: Concerto, for Violin, Cello and Piano in C Major (“Triple Concerto”), Op. 56
M. P. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orchestration H. Gmür
The concerts are dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Republic of Cyprus
Sponsors: EFNYO EU Education and Culture, CYTA, OPAP (Ltd), Cyprus Airways
€12 and pensioners €7
Free entrance for students, soldiers and EURO<26 card holders
Tickets available at the Theatres’ box office
The Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra with international participation will be giving two concerts in Cyprus and one in Constantinople, with the programme titled “Musical Encounter”. The programme under the music direction of conductor Ayis Ioannides and with three soloists: Cypriot violinist Victoria Mavromoustaki, Bulgarian immigrant cellist Peter Gospodinov and Turkish Cypriot young pianist Eser Öktem includes works by Berlioz, Beethoven and Mussorgsky.
The concert in Constantinople will take place on 29 August at Ayia Irini, which was the first patriarchal church and today is one of the most important cultural venues. The orchestra was invited to participate in the first International Festival for Youth Orchestras in Istanbul through contacts made at conferences of the European Federation of National Youth Orchestras. The Festival’s organizers were impressed by the standard of the Orchestra’s concert at the 2009 Kypria Festival. Istanbul is this year one of the European Capitals of Culture.
In Cyprus the concerts in will take place on 1 and 2 September 2010 at Strovolos Municipal Theatre, Nicosia and Larnaca Municipal Theatre respectively and are dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Republic of Cyprus. Both concerts start at 20:30. Tickets are available at the Theatres’ box office at €12 for adults & €7 for pensioners. Entrance is free for students, soldiers and Euro<26 card holders.
The programme is being prepared at the Orchestra’s International Summer Music Academy. The young musicians from Cyprus and at least 14 other countries are being trained under the direction of distinguished teachers from Cyprus and abroad. The Academy’s seat is the Pedoulas Gymnasium in the Troodos mountains (ca. 1150m. above sea level). This year it will run from August 16 to 27. Lunch-time concerts are given almost daily at 12.30. There will also be two evening concerts, on Saturday 21 and Friday 27, starting at 19.30. Entry to all concerts is free of charge.
The whole project is sponsored by the European Federation of National Youth Orchestras, the European Union Education and Culture Programme, OPAP Cyprus (Ltd), and CYTA. For more information you can contact the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra Foundation at 22 463144.
The Orchestra, the soloists and the Artistic Director:
The Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra was founded by cabinet decision in 1987 as Cyprus Youth State Orchestra, along with the Cyprus State Chamber Orchestra. As from January 2007, its administration was undertaken by the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra Foundation. The Orchestra gives two to three concerts a year, often appearing as specialist groups, such as symphonic wind orchestra or chamber music ensembles. It performs regularly on official occasions and has provided programmes at such events as the prize giving ceremony of the European Schools' Competition, the opening of the State Educational Fair, the Euro-Mediterranean Forum of UNESCO and the 4th International Cyprological Congress. An activity of paramount importance is the annual International Summer Academy, organized at the high mountain resort of Pedoulas, with the participation of students from many countries under the guidance of highly qualified teachers of international standing. The international youth symphony orchestra which is constituted and trained at the Summer Academy has already given highly acclaimed concerts at the International Kypria 2007, 2008 and 2009 Festivals. Since 1990 the Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra has been supported by the Music Workshop which offers talented young musicians free individual tuition by select instrumental pedagogues on all orchestral instruments.
Violinist Victoria Mavromoustaki was born in Limassol, Cyprus. She began studying violin at the age of three under Andreas Konstantinou, and made her début recital at the age of seven in a concert series featuring music by Mozart. Showing a precocious talent, she won numerous awards and prizes including, in 1999, a scholarship to study at the Purcell School of Music in the UK. During her time there she studied under Maciej Rakowsky and was showcased in numerous concerts given by the school. In 2001, she enrolled at the Royal College of Music to study under Itzhak Rashkovsky and graduated with a BMus (Honours) in 2005 and a Postgraduate Diploma in advance performance in 2007. Victoria was an RCM scholar and she received many awards including the MBF Myra Hess award, the Kit and John Gander Award and the Joan Weller Award. In 2006 she was awarded the Philip Crawshaw memorial prize at the the Royal Overseas League Music Competition and in 2008 she received a prize at the Carl Flesh International Violin Competition. Victoria has performed in many prestigious venues such as the Wigmore Hall, St. John's Smith Square, St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and the British Museum. She has given performances in Africa, Cyprus, Greece, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK. She has been invited to perform in several music festivals including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Commonwealth Resounds Arts, Ledras, and the Gnaoua and World Music Festival. She has also appeared in the Pharos Trust Foundation Cyprus Artists series. As a soloist she has performed with many orchestras including the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, Oxford Philomusica and the Nic Branston Foundation Orchestra. Future engagements include concert appearances as well as recitals with her sister and duo partner Eleni Mavromoustaki. Victoria plays on a fine instrument by Andrea Guarneri made in Cremona in 1680.
Cellist Peter Gospodinov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria where he started his first cello lessons at state music school Sofia. At the beginning of the 90′s he moved with his parents to Cyprus where he continued his studies at the Ethnikon Odeon in Nicosia and became a member and later principal cellist of the Cyprus State Youth Orchestra and member of the Cyprus State Chamber Orchestra under Ayis Ioannides. He continued taking cello lessons from Olga Argyridou and Ferenz Gyimesz among others. His cello studies led him eventually to Vienna where he received his cello training as a student of Yontcho Bayrov and Lilia Schulz. In Vienna he developed a passion for chamber music and studied with some of the most distinguished musicians of this genre, such as Claus Christian Schuster and Martin Hornstein of the Altenberg Trio as well as Johannes Meissl of the Artis Quartet and Alexander Arenkov of the Glinka Quartet. At the 6th Ιnternational Chamber Music Competition in Osaka-Japan he won the Jury Prize and the Medal of Honour. He was also Laureate at the Johannes Brahms Competition in Austria. He performed as a member of many formations in almost every European country as well in extensive tours in the U.S.A and the Far East, including performances at prestigious festivals such as Reina Sofia in Spain and Savonnlinna in Finnland. He is a regular guest at the Gaude Mater festival Poland. He has been a member of the Bruckner Orchester Linz, and is now principal cellist of the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra.
Pianist Eser Öktem was born in Nicosia in 1990 and started his first piano lessons at the age of 10 with Nur Tilki, who, recognizing his extraordinary talent, advised him to study at Hacettepe University, Ankara State Conservatory. At the age of 12, he excelled at the entrance examinations of the Conservatory and began working with Professor Semra Kartal. In 2004, with state support for exceptionally talented children, he continued his studies under the special educational programme for exceptional students, with Kamuran Gundemir, in at Bilkent University Music Preparatory Middle School, Ankara. He completed the year with full marks as top of his class. In August, 2005 attended on scholarship master classes with Murray Mclahan at the ‘Chetham’s International Festival and Summer School for Pianists’, Manchester, England, with whom he continued studying at the School during 2006-7. He then studied with Kevin Kenner at the Royal College of Music, London, and is currently working with Prof. Ersin Onay at Bilkent University, Ankara. He has also been taught privately by other pianists of international standing such as Gulsin Onay, Emre Sen, Huseyin Sermet, Fazil Say, Marcella Crudeli, Martino Tirimo, Alberto Portugheis,and Kathyrin Stott, all of whom have praised his outstanding musical ability. In May 2005 he made his debut at a highly acclaimed recital at Bellapais Abbey, Kyrenia, and later the same year he performed Mozart’s Piano Concerto no.21 with the Orchestra of the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg under the baton of Burkhard Rempe. Among his numerous appearances since then are recitals at Bilkent University “Mozart 250 years old” and at Ovstrivski Hall, Moscow (2006) and at Steinway Hall, London (2007).
Through his thirty year long international experience Ayis Ioannides, Artistic Director of the Cyprus State Youth Orchestra, has conducted a wide spectrum of musical genres and has universally received high critical acclaim both as conductor and composer. As Artistic Director and Conductor he distinguished himself at the International Kypria Festival 2004 with the acclaimed opera production Caterina Cornaro and at the International Kypria Festival 2006 with the concerts Mozart and Shostakovich - a birthday dedication. As Artistic Director of the Cyprus Youth Symphony orchestra, he conducted the Orchestra at the Kypria International Festivals 2007, 2008 and 2009, with the programmes Giants of the North, Mature Youngsters and Shakespear Inspires, respectively. For ten years he was conductor at German opera houses. He has been Chief Conductor of the Vaasa City Orchestra in Finland and the first Artistic Director of the Cyprus State Chamber and Youth Orchestras. After obtaining a doctorate degree with specialization in neurophysiology, he studied in London at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the National Opera Studio, and he participated in master classes in Austria, the Netherlands and Germany. Especially important was the experience he gained under the maestros George Hurst, Vilem Tausky, Helmut Rilling and Sergiu Celibidache, a leading musical personality of the second half of the 20th century. Outside Cyprus his compositions have been performed in Egypt, Austria, France (International Pablo Casals Festival), Germany, Finland and the U.S.A. Especially successful was the world premiere in January 2006 of his Trio for Violin, Violoncello and Piano, commissioned by the Vienna Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde (Musikverein).
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