International Summer Academy

The annual residential summer school of the Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra through the years 2006 – 2008 developed into an International Summer Music Academy with the participation of distinguished teachers and advanced students from many countries. Students normally pay their own flight to Cyprus. Accommodation (full board), tuition and transport within Cyprus are offered free of charge.

The Academy is organised in the high mountain village of Pedoulas (ca. 1200m. above sea level) during the last two weeks of August. In the first week is mainly given over to master classes, wind orchestra, sectional rehearsals and some ad hoc chamber music training, whereas the second week is devoted to the preparation of a symphonic programme. Additionally, there are daily lunch-time concerts, open to the public, as well as evening concerts at the end of each week.

The full list of the teaching staff will be posted here in due course.

INTERNATIONAL SUMMER ACADEMY 2011

The Academy will take place between August 16 (arrival date) and September 3 or 4 (departure date, depending on the final concert dates). The orchestral concert programme will be:

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Mahler: Symphony no. 1

There will be vacancies in almost all instruments. Those interested in participating are requested to apply by clicking on the link below.

Final date for applications is Monday, May 2, 2011.

The orchestra that was trained in the summers of 2007, 2008 and 2009 was participated in the annual International Kypria Festival (the most prestigious artistic event in Cypurs) with the following programmes. In 2010 the orchestra performed in Cyprus as well as in the 1st International Youth Orchestras Festival in Istanbul.

2010 - Musical Encounter
Berlioz: Overture Carnival Romain
Beethoven: Triple concerto
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition (orch. Hanspeter Gmür)

2009 - Shakespeare Inspires
Mendelssohn: Notturno and Wedding March from Midsummer Night’s Dream
Verdi: Excerpts from Macbeth and Otello (Soloists: Stella Georgiou - soprano, David Johnson - tenor, Constantinos Yiannoudis - baritone)
Weber: 1st movement from Bassoon Concerto (Soloist; Dakis Troullos)
Tchaikovsky: Fantasy-Overture Romeo and Juliet

2008 - Mature Youngsters
Schubert: Unfinished Symphony
Schumann: Piano Concerto (Soloist: Eleni Mavromoustaki)
Weber: 3rd movement of Clarinet Concerto no. 1 (Soloist: Orfeas Hiratos)
Bizet: Suite “L’Arlesienne” no. 2

2007 - Giants of the North
Sibelius: Karelia Suite
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite no. 1
Sibelius: Violin Concerto (Soloist: Sandy Chen)

Teaching Staff at the 2010 Academy:
Head of Strings and Violin: Matheos Kariolou (Anton Bruckner Music University, Linz)
Violin: Sorin Alexandru Horlea (Cyprus Symphony Orchestra)
Viola: Christian Euler (Music University, Graz)
Violoncello: Susan Rybicki-Varga (Lausanne and Sion Conservatories)
Double Bass: Stanislaw Pasierski (Bruckner Orchestra, Linz)
Head of Wind and Horn: Kalervo Kulmala (Sibelius Academy, Helsinki)
Flute: Virginie Reibel (Valencia Opera)
Oboe: Pierre-Antoine Escoffier (Valencia Opera)
Clarinet: Gabor Varga (Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Budapest)
Bassoon and wind orchestra: Giovanni Galetti (Cyprus Symphony Orchestra)
Bassoon: Sergio Lazzeri (I Fiati di Parma and Tartini Conservatoire, Trieste)
Horn and Wind orchestra: Kelly Alijani (Cyprus Symphony Orchestra)
Trombone and brass ensemble: Otmar Strobel (Gewandhaus Orchester, Leipzig)