The series of concerts dedicated to Cypriot artists continues with a Violin and Piano Recital on Thursday 20 December 2007 with Victoria Mavromoustaki (violin) and Eleni Mavromoustaki (piano). The recital will take place at Casteliotissa Hall, Paphos Gate, Nicosia at 8:30pm.

The Pharos Trust’s Cyprus Artists Series is presented concurrently with its internationally established annual Concert and Recital Series. The series is dedicated to the promotion and support of leading musicians of Cypriot ancestry, as well as musicians residing and pursuing a career in Cyprus. In keeping with its mission to promote artistic excellence and cultural dialogue, the Trust aspires to offer Cyprus audiences the opportunity to experience fine performances, while developing an active network of Cypriot musicians. The Series will also be committed to the promotion of Cypriot composers and will feature premieres of commissioned new works.
 

Jean Marie Leclair
Sonata No.3 in D Major

Ernest Chausson
Poeme for Violin and Piano Op. 25

George Gershwin
3 Preludes
                    
Maurice Ravel
Tziganne 

Violinist Victoria Mavromoustaki was born in Limassol and began studying the violin at the age of three under Professor Andrea Konstantinou. She made her first public performance 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 2001, Victoria enrolled at the Royal College of Music to study under Itzhak Rashkovsky and she is currently continuing her Postgraduate Diploma as a scholar supporter by the Myra Hess award, the Kit and John Gander award and the Joan Weller Award.

Victoria performed in venues such as Wigmore Hall, St. John’s Smith Square, St. James Piccadilly, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle. She has also given performances in Cyprus, Spain, Italy, Greece, and Germany and has recorded for CyBC radio and television. She was a string finalist in the ROSL Annual Music Competition 2006 and was awarded the Philip Crawshaw Memorial Prize for a musician of promise from overseas. Future engagements include recitals and concerto performances in England, Cyprus, Greece and Scotland.

Born in Limassol, pianist Eleni Mavromoustaki showed an exceptional musical talent from an early age and began piano lessons originally with her mother Novia Mavromoustaki and later with Pitsa Spyridaki. She enrolled at the Royal College of Music in London in 1997 to study with Yu Chun Yee and Yonty Solomon, and completed her Master of Music degree at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow with Fali Pavri; for which she was a beneficiary of a generous scholarship from the Leventis Foundation. During her studies Eleni won numerous awards and prizes some of which include the Cornelius Fisher Prize and the Ellen Marie Curtis Prize for her interpretation of Scarlatti and Haydn Sonatas, the Bach Competition Prize and the RSAMD Governor's Recital prize. Eleni won the 2^end Prize at the Patras international piano competition and an award at the George Themis Pan-Hellenic Piano competition.

Eleni has performed extensively throughout the UK in venues such as St.Martin-in-the-Fields, Southwark Cathedral, St.James' Piccadilly and the Queen's hall in Edinburgh and has toured with the Scottish Ensemble. Her solo and chamber music appearances have taken her as far afield as South Korea and Iceland, she has worked as a soloist with the Cyprus State Orchestra, the Patras Chamber Orchestra, The Thessalonika State Orchestra and since 2003 has been an active member of The Live Music Now scheme. Eleni has recorded for the CYBC radio and television on several occasions, was invited by the Steinway Club Cyprus to give a recital in honour of Mozart's 250^th anniversary and has performed at the Megaron in Athens with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Iasi. Engagements for the forthcoming season include recital tours in Greece, Cyprus and Italy and performances with the 'Persephone Duo'.

Ticket Prices:

Adults: £10

Friends and Supporters of the Pharos Trust: £8

Concessions: £6
 

Tickets can be purchased from:

The Pharos Trust (22 663 871),

Athalassas Music Centre (22 510 547),

Moufflon bookshop (22 665 155),

Soloneion bookshop (22 666 799) and

Travelorama (22 452 945)