Wednesday, 17 December 2008, Rialto Theatre, Lemesos, 20:30
Friday, 19 December 2008, Strovolos Municipal Theatre, Lefkosia, 20:30
Soloists: Anni Trillidou Santi (soprano), Andreas Aroditis (baritone)
Music Direction: Vieshislav Volich
Choirs:
EPILOGI Children’s Choir LCSB Lemesos
EPILOGI Youth Choir, Lemesos
FULDA Cathedral Youth Choir, Germany
Choir Training: Angelina Nicolaidou-Spanou & Franz Peter Huber
In collaboration with the Cultural Movement EPILOGI, Lemesos
Programme:
P.I. Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker (excerpts)
J. Rutter: Mass of the Children
Tickets available at the Theatres’ box office at €10 and at €5 for pensioners
Free entrance for students, soldiers, student card and EURO<26 card holders
Anni Trillidou Sandi was born in Lefkosia in 1982. She started piano, theory of music and singing lessons at a very young age. She graduated in 2005 with the Diploma in Music Studies, and in 2006 she received a Bachelor of Arts with Honours from Middlesex University, London and won the David Turton prize for her performance. She has been awarded scholarships for chamber music classes in Germany in 2004 and with the Apple Hill Chamber Players in the US in 2005. She has also attended master classes with distinguished musicians such as Martino Tirimo, Ruth Harte, Denise Graves, Cornelius Claudio Kreusch and the Allegri Quartet. Anni Trillidou-Sandi regularly appears as a soloist, and among her most important appearances are her presentation in an educational concert with the Cyprus State Orchestra in May 2005, concert with the chamber choir Polyphonia, concert with the French rock band Kebous for the Day of Music in June 2008. In November 2007 she took part in the 16th Cypriot Song Composition Contest with her own composition and won the prize for Best Interpretation. She has also appeared in many performances with the Ensemble of Greek Music. She now lives in Cyprus and is currently studying for a Masters degree in Music Psychology at the University of Sheffield.
Lyric Baritone Andreas Aroditis has just completed his third year of studies at the Juilliard School in New York, where he is studying on a full scholarship under the guidance of his voice teacher, David Clatworthy. At Juilliard he has performed the roles of Marte (Mars) in Francesco Cavalli’s Opera La Doriclea as well as Henry B. and Brother of Indiana Elliot in the Juilliard Opera Workshop’s (JOW) production of The Mother of us All. With JOW he has also performed in numerous opera scenes playing Count Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Dottore Malatesta (Don Pasquale), Guglielmo (Cosi Fan Tutte) and Horace Tabor (The Ballad of Baby Doe). Past engagements include the role of Count Almaviva in Le Nozze Di Figaro with the Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute (BASOTI) under the baton of maestro Mathias Kuntzsch, as well as a concert version of Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas as Aeneas in Varna, Bulgaria (August 2008); a role which he performed with the Cyprus Opera Organization in Larnaka, Cyprus as well.
Since 1994 Viacheslav Volich is the Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of the National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre of Belarus. During 2001-2002 he held the position of General Music Director of the Opera and Ballet Theatre (Mersin, Turkey). In 2001 he conducted the Orchestra of the Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre and since 2002 he is guest-conductor at the Izmir Opera House (Turkey). Since 2004 he is Conductor of the National Academic Great Opera Theatre of the Republic of Belarus. At the same time, he conducts the Belarus State Symphony Orchestra in concerts since 1992. In his various positions as conductor of opera and ballet theatre companies he has toured Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, France, Japan, Russia, Poland and Thailand presenting an extensive repertoire of both opera and ballet.
