Concert and Recital SeriesThe Pharos Trust organises musical events throughout the year, inviting many of the world’s most highly acclaimed soloists and ensembles to perform in Cyprus as part of its internationally acclaimed annual Concert and Recital Series. The Trust’s commitment to musical excellence has given the opportunity to local audiences to experience concerts and recitals covering a wide range of repertoire ranging from early baroque to modern 20th century, as well as premieres of newly-commissioned works by Cypriot and international composers.
Over the past few years, the Trust has organised over 200 concerts and recitals. Among the artists who over the years have given extraordinary performances and thrilled listeners are Grigory Sokolov, considered the world’s greatest living pianist; renowned violinist and conductor Andrew Manze; baritone Jonathan Lemalu, whose recording with Roger Vignoles won the prestigious Gramophone award for best debut recording in 2002; virtuoso violinists Leonidas Kavakos and Dmitry Sitkovetsky; gifted young violinist Sergey Khatchatryan; Greek pianist George-Emmanuel Lazarides; soprano Soile Isokoski
Audiences have also enjoyed performances by ensembles and chamber orchestras such as the London Sinfonietta, the pre-eminent champion of contemporary music; the Akademie fϋr Alte Musik Berlin, a leading Baroque ensemble; Emma Kirkby and London Baroque; The Moscow Virtuosi; and The Sixteen, one of the world’s greatest vocal ensembles with a repertoire ranging from early polyphony, Renaissance and Baroque to the 20th century.
Part of the Pharos Trust’s mission has also been to support and promote talented Cypriot composers at the beginning of their career, providing opportunities for world premieres of their works, specially commissioned by the Trust, to be performed by orchestras and ensembles of worldwide reputation. These include the world premiere of Vassos Nicolaou’s work Kimata by the London Sinfonietta in 2003 as well as the world premiere of Evis Sammoutis’s work Echopraxia in May 2006 by the Ensemble Modern, one of the world’s leading ensembles of modern music.
The Pharos Trust 24 Demosthenis Severis, 1080, Nicosia, P.O. Box 21425, 1508 Nicosia, Cyprus T 357 22 663871 F 357 22 663538 E info@thepharostrust.org
