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.

The Academy is organized 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 and 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 and there evening concerts at the end of each week.

INTERNATIONAL SUMMER ACADEMY 2010

The Academy will take place between August 17 and September 2. The orchestral concert programme will be:

Berlioz:  Overture Carnival Romain

Beethoven: Triple concerto

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition (orch. Hanspeter Gmür)

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: Anton Schachenhofer (Anton Bruckner Music University, 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)

The orchestra that was trained in the summers of 2007, 2008 and 2009 was invited to participate in the International Kypria Festivals with the following programmes:

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

2008 – Mature Youngsters

Schubert: Unfinished Symphony

Schumann: Piano Concerto (Soloist: Eleni Mavromoustaki)

Weber: 3^rd movement of Clarinet Concerto no. 1 (Soloist: Orfeas Hiratos)

Bizet: Suite “L’Arlesienne” no. 2

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: 1^st movement from Bassoon Concerto (Soloist; Dakis Troullos)

Tchaikovsky: Fantasy-Overture Romeo and Juliet