The
Pharos Trust is delighted to announce the Sixth International Pharos
Chamber Music Festival to take place at the PASYDY Auditorium in
Nicosia
and at the Royal Manor House in Kouklia, Paphos from 28 May to 6 June
2006.
The
Pharos Trust, having a strong commitment to artistic excellence,
regularly invites some of Europe’s finest musicians to
Cyprus
for concerts throughout the year. Through
the
Concert and Recital Series, for which the Foundation has established
worldwide reputation, a great number of performances by outstanding
soloists and chamber music ensembles from all over the world are
presented, annually culminating with The International Pharos Chamber
Music Festival, now in its sixth consecutive year. This
year’s Festival, welcomes to Cyprus the Chilingirian Quartet as
well as nine accomplished chamber musicians from the current
international circuit, performing a range of works
for
strings and piano by composers including Bach, Beethoven, Britten,
Debussy, Mozart, Schumann and Shostakovich.
The
Chilingirian Quartet / Bengt Forsberg, piano
PASYDY
Auditorium, Nicosia
Sunday
28 May, 2006
31 May to 6 June, 2006
Alex Chaushian
Levon Chilingirian
Jeremy Menuhin
Yuri Zhislin
Alexander Zemtsov
Steven Isserlis
Melvyn Tan
Dmitry Sitkovetsky
Vahan Mardirossian
Alexander
Chaushian studied at the
Yehudi
Menuhin
School
, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in
London
and at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in
Berlin
. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and has appeared with
orchestras such as the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the London Mozart
Players and
Academy
of
St Martin-in-the-Fields
. Alexander Chaushian has performed recitals at the Harrogate Festival
in
England
, the Kuhmo International Festival in
Finland
, La Jolla Festival in the
USA
, the Wigmore Hall, Théâtre du Châtelet in
Paris
, Suntory Hall in
Japan
. Since 2002 he has acted as the artistic director of the Orpheus
& Bacchus Festival in
Bordeaux
,
France
.
Levon
Chilingirian
was born in
Cyprus
to Armenian parents and was introduced to music from a very early age.
When the Chilingirian family emigrated to
London
in 1960, Levon concentrated on the violin, studying at the Royal
College of Music where he is now a professor. His career as a
recitalist was launched by winning the first prize in the 1969 BBC
Beethoven Competition, followed by the Munich Duo first prize in 1971.
The same year he formed The Chilingirian Quartet with three other ex-RCM
students; the ensemble has become one of the most active and
celebrated string quartets on the international scene with tours to
fifty countries on six continents. Recently Levon Chilingirian became
the musical director of Camerata Roman, a talented Swedish string
ensemble. He has received the Cobbett Medal, the Royal Philharmonic
Society's chamber music award and, in January 2000, an OBE in the
Queen's Honours List for his services to music.
Jeremy
Menuhin’s
broad musical education included composition with Nadia Boulanger in
Paris
, piano studies with Mindru Katz in
Israel
and conducting with Hans Swarowsky in
Vienna
. He has regularly given recitals at the
Kennedy
Center
in
Washington
, the Philharmonie in
Berlin
, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and the Salle Pleyel in
Paris
. Recent engagements have included performances with the Talich
Quartet in Brussels, recitals in Fehmarn and at the Mitte Europa
Festival in Germany and Beethoven Concertos in the Flanders and Gstaad
Festivals.He has played with many leading orchestras such as the Royal
Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, Salzburg Mozarteum and the
chamber orchestras of Zurich, St Petersburg and Prague, as well as the
English Chamber Orchestra.
Born
in
Singapore
and resident in the
UK
since 1978, Melvyn Tan
studied at the
Yehudi
Menuhin
School
and at
London
’s Royal College of Music. Having established an international
reputation for his performances on the fortepiano, Melvyn Tan made the
decision to return publicly to the modern piano in 1995, performing at
leading concert halls around the world, including the Wigmore Hall,
Lincoln Centre, Théâtre du Châtelet, Musikverein and the
Philharmonie. Orchestras with which he has worked include the BBC
Symphony, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Budapest Concert, Salzburg
Camerata and Mozarteum Orchestras, Netherlands Chamber, Los Angeles
Symphony, Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Melbourne Symphony. Melvyn’s
partners have included cellist Steven Isserlis, violinist Christian
Altenberger, the Škampa Quartet and fellow pianist, Ronald Brautigam.
Born
in 1974, Yuri Zhislin
studied the violin at the
Moscow
Gnessin
Music
School
for musically gifted children with Ms Svetlova and later at the Royal
College of Music with his father, Grigori Zhislin and Dr Felix
Andrievsky. Yuri is a Laureate and major prize-winner of various
international competitions. He is high in demand at international
festivals around the world, performing as a soloist and chamber
musician in festivals in
Bath
, Chichester, Cheltenham,
Seattle
, Hohenems and
Bordeaux
, among others. He has appeared in major concert halls throughout the
world, including the Wigmore Hall,
Queen
Elizabeth
Hall, Purcell Room and Concertgebouw and has performed with BBC
Concert Orchestra, the London Mozart Players, the
Belgrade
Philharmonic, and the
Lublin
Philharmonic, to name a few. Yuri is founder and Artistic Director of
the Russian Virtuosi of Europe, an Artistic Director of the Evaristo
Valle International Music Festival in
Spain
and professor of violin at the Royal College of Music in
London
.
Alexander
Zemtsov
was born in the
Soviet Union
into a highly musical family. He studied at the Hochschule fur Musik
und Theater in
Hamburg
and continued his education with the famous viola virtuoso Professor
Michael Kugel in the Hogeschool of Music in
Maastricht
. Since the age of 19 Alexander has worked with several European
orchestras and in 2002 was appointed Principal Viola with the London
Philharmonic Orchestra. Alexander Zemtsov
is member of the new string ensemble The Hermitage Trio and a
permanent member of the Razumovsky Ensemble, with whom he regularly
performs in the Wigmore Hall Chamber Music Series. Zemtsov´s mastery
and artistry have been widely recognized internationally and have
brought him numerous prizes such as first prize at the Elise Meyer
competition in
Hamburg
in 1997, and first prize at the 8th Brahms competition in
Poertschach
,
Austria
, in 2001.
Steven
Isserlis is
a cellist whose passion for music transcends conventional divisions.
Acclaimed worldwide for his musicality and technique alike, he is
equally at home in recital, in chamber music performances, on the
concert platform with some of the world’s most prestigious
orchestras and conductors – including most recently the Boston,
Dallas and Toronto Symphony Orchestras, the Leipzig Gewandhaus and the
Philadelphia and Philharmonia Orchestras – or in performances with
period instruments and in contemporary music collaborations. With an
award-winning discography, Isserlis’ recordings reflect his diverse
interests in repertoire. A strong interest in musical education makes
Isserlis much in demand in teaching; he is Artistic Director of the
International Masterclass and Chamber Music forum IMS Prussia Cove and
has been appointed President of the European String Teachers’
Association. Steven Isserlis plays the Feuermann Stradivarius of 1730,
kindly loaned by The Nippon Music Foundation of Japan.
Vahan
Mardirossian
was born in
Yerevan
,
Armenia
and studied at the Paris Conservatoire. Since his debut as a pianist,
he has regularly been invited to appear with orchestras including the
Yerevan Chamber Orchestra, Armenian Philharmonic, Portugal Symphonic
Orchestra, the Ensemble Orchestral of Paris and the Paris Conservatory
Orchestra. He has had regular appearances at major festivals such as
La Roque d'Anthéron, Piano aux Jacobins, Cortona Festival, Festival
of Menton, Auvers sur Oise, Piano en Vallois, Rheims (Flâneries
Musicales), Cannes (Midem), Chamonix (Les Semaines Musicales du Mont
Blanc), Les Arcs (Festival International), Séville (Music Season),
Paris (Les TransClassiques) and Bagatelle (Chopin Festival) and has
given recitals in Europe, the USA, Japan, Russia and the Middle East.
Together with Nicolas Baldeyrou and Renaud Dejardin, he has formed the
Mardirossian Trio.
Dmitry
Sitkovetsky’s
career successfully manifests itself in a number of creative ways. As
a violinist, he works with the very best orchestras in Europe,
Japan
and the
USA
and performs with distinguished conductors. He is a regular guest at
festivals in
Salzburg
,
Lucerne
,
Edinburgh
, Verbier, Ravinia and the BBC Proms and has been a highly successful
festival director over many years at Korsholm Music Festival,
Umea
,
Baku
,
Seattle
and Cortona. Since 1990, Dmitry Sitkovetsky has developed a
flourishing conducting career. He is now Principal Guest Conductor of
the Russian State Symphony in
Moscow
and conducts orchestras regularly throughout Europe and
USA
. He has an active and varied recording career which includes all the
major violin concerti, numerous chamber music works as well as
orchestral works as conductor. Dmitry Sitkovetsky is the founding
director of the New European Strings Chamber Orchestra. He has been a
member of ASCAP since 1985, and his transcriptions of works are
published by Doblinger, Sikorski and Schirmer’s.
CHAMBER
MUSIC FESTIVAL MAY
31 – JUNE 6 2006
PROGRAMME
MAY
31 2006
Jeremy
Menuhin - Piano
Levon
Chilingirian - Violin
BACH Partita
No. 6 in E minor for piano
MOZART Sonata
for violin and piano in A
DEBUSSY Estampes
for piano
BEETHOVEN Sonata
for violin and piano in D minor Op. 30 No. 2
JUNE
1 2006
Jeremy
Menuhin - Piano
Levon
Chilingirian – Violin
Yuri
Zhislin - Violin
Alexander
Zemtsov – Viola
Alex
Chaushian - Cello
SCHUBERT String
Trio in B flat, D471
BEETHOVEN String
Trio in G Op. 9 No. 1
DVORAK Piano
Quintet in A Op. 81
JUNE
2 2006
Steven
Isserlis –Cello
Melvyn
Tan – Piano
DEBUSSY Sonata
for cello and piano
BRITTEN Suite
No. 3 for cello
SCHUMANN Romances
for cello and piano
BEETHOVEN Sonata
No. 3 in A Op. 69 for cello and piano
JUNE
3 2006
Dimitri
Sitkovetsky - Violin
Yuri
Zhislin - Violin
Alex
Chaushian – cello
BACH Goldberg Variations
JUNE
4 2006
Vahan
Mardirossian - Piano
Levon
Chilingirian - Violin
Yuri
Zhislin - Violin
Alexander
Zemtsov -Viola
Alex
Chaushian - Cello
BABADJANIAN
Piano Trio
SCHUMANN Piano
Quintet in E flat Op. 44
JUNE
5 2006
Vahan
Mardirossian – Piano
Levon
Chilingirian – Violin
Alexander
Zemtsov –Viola
Alex
Chaushian – Cello
LISZT Piano
Sonata in B minor
ERIC TANGUY Passacaglia
for piano
BRAHMS Piano
Quartet in G minor Op. 25
JUNE
6 2006
Vahan
Mardirossian – Piano
Yuri
Zhislin – Violin
Alexander
Zemtsov - Viola
Alex
Chaushian – Cello
SHOSTAKOVICH Piano
Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67
SCHUMANN Piano
Quartet in E flat Op. 47
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