19th
INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CHAMBER
MUSIC FESTIVAL
1 – 4 JUNE 2019 ● ROYAL MANOR HOUSE, KOUKLIA
6 JUNE 2019 ● THE OLIVE GROVE, DELIKIPOS
The cultural
spring season in Cyprus could not reach its pinnacle without the International
Pharos Chamber Music Festival, and the highlight of it is the series of chamber
concerts at the Royal Manor House in Kouklia – one of the finest surviving
monuments of Frankish architecture on the island and a UNESCO World Heritage
site, and an unparalleled venue for intimate chamber music performances. Recognised
as one of Europe's preeminent music festivals and acknowledged all over the
world as Cyprus’ most important annual classical music event, the Pharos Festival
has steadily and solidly gained an unequalled reputation for the quality of its
concerts as well as its enchanting atmosphere and settings.
The Royal Manor
House will welcome some of the world’s most celebrated and finest soloists, from Saturday 1 until Tuesday 4 June 2019, for
four unique concerts: Amongst them, Alexander
Ghindin – unanimously acclaimed by critics and music lovers as one of the
most charismatic and original pianists of our times; the sensational violinist Christel Lee – First-prize winner of
the 2015 International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki; violinists
Anna Tifu and Doriane Gable as well as pianist Olga Zado – considered amongst the leading female musicians of
their generation; the return visits of
the remarkable Lars Anders Tomter
(described as the “Giant of the Nordic Viola”), and pianist Ashley Wass (described by Gramophone as
“a thoroughbred who possesses the enviable gift to turn almost anything he
plays into pure gold”), violist David
Abrahamyan and cellist Alexander
Chaushian. The Festival will also welcome the wonderful Cypriot soprano Zoe Nicolaidou.
What better way to
conclude the 19th International Pharos Chamber Music Festival than by setting
up the stage of Pharos’ magical open-air venue, The Olive Grove, in Delikipos?
For its final concert, on Thursday 6 June 2019,
the Festival has invited the brilliant Cyprus
Youth Symphony Orchestra to team up with soloists Anna Tifu (violin), Christel Lee (violin) and Ashley Wass
(piano), under the direction of conductor Yiorgos Kountouris. Surrounded by the idyllic forest of Delikipos,
in an exceptional atmosphere and landscape, the audience will indulge in an
impressive programme that will include works by Mendelssohn, Sarasate and
Vitali.
**Concerts
start at 8.30pm
INFORMATION & TICKETS:
Full Programme, Information & Box Office: www.pharosartsfoundation.org
& Tel: +357 22-663871 (Monday - Friday 10:00am-3:00pm)
Tickets: €15 / €10 (Concessions, Members of the Pharos Arts Foundation)
Tickets also
available from: KYRIAKOU FULLPAGE BOOKSHOPS: 30 Ellados Ave., 8020
Paphos, Tel. 26-822850