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5TH INTERNATIONAL P!
HAROS
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL
29 September – 6 October 2013
The Shoe Factory, Nicosia
Having established itself as one of the most cutting-edge and innovative
annual events in the Eastern Mediterranean, the INTERNATIONAL PHAROS
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL is organised between 29 September and 6 October
2013 for the fifth consecutive year. The Festival is dedicated to the
promotion of new music: The well-established masterpieces of the contemporary
music literature of the 20th century as well as a great number of premieres
by young leading composers from all over the world who have been commissioned
by the Pharos Arts Foundation to write new works especially for this
occasion. The Festival aims to provide a forum for composers and performers
to advance and develop new projects and explore new sound worlds in chamber
music settings. Its objective is also to endorse contemporary music to the
gene! ral audience of Cyprus, and elsewhere, as this is the music of our
times – it is directly linked with many forms of visual and creative arts,
and sciences, and reflects the intimacy of the modern-day human spirit.
Under the Artistic Direction of the notable Cypriot composer Evis Sammoutis,
the 5th International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival encompasses a range
of activities including Lectures by distinguished scholars, Screenings, Dance
Performances, Educational Workshops and Concerts with the renowned Ensemble
Transmission from Canada, the exciting Neue Vocalsolisten from Germany, and
Hayk Melikyan who is recognized internationally as one of the most versatile
and imaginative performers of contemporary music and among today's most
engaging virtuoso pianists. Alongside classical contemporary masterpieces by
composers such as Stockhausen, Xenakis, Kurtag, Barber and Berio, the
Festival will also feature a number of world and Cyprus premieres, including
the works of two young composers – Matteo Giuliani and Anthony Green – that
were selected from 39 entries submitted from all over the world in the
Festival’s first ever “International Call for Scores”. The Festival is also
proud to feature guest composer, Thomas Simaku, who will oversee the
preparation of the new works and give a lecture on the genesis and processes
involved in his award-winning Soliloquy Cycle.
The Shoe Factory is situated in the old part of Nicosia, near the buffer
zone. Through it, the Pharos Arts Foundation is helping to revitalize this
beautiful and historic section of the capital city by attracting a wide and
diversified younger audience. All concerts are characterized by a unique
feeling of intimacy and music is performed in an exceptionally inspiring
setting: a modern venue decorated with contemporary art by mainly local
artists; a venue situated in the “run down” part of Nicos! ia that offers the
audience the unique opportunity to sit within an amazing proximity to world
famous artists and experience performances in a venue like no other.
EVENT SCHEDULE
Sunday 29 September 2013
Master-class HAYK MELIKYAN
The Shoe Factory, Nicosia / 5:00pm
With the active participation of Cypriot music students. The master-class is
open to the public and will last approximately two hours including a
break.
Monday 30 September 2013
Piano Recital HAYK MELIKYAN
The Shoe Factory, Nicosia / 8:30pm
In works by Stockhausen, Cowell, Akshelyan, Fénelon, Górecki, Jarell,
Feldman, Kurtág, Simaku and Barber.
Having won the Second Prize in the International Piano Competition of the
20th Century and Contemporary ! Music “Premio Valentino Bucchi” in Rome in
2000, Hayk Melikyan is recognized internationally as one of the most
versatile and imaginative performers of the 20th Century and Contemporary
Music and among today's most engaging virtuoso pianists by classical music
audiences and critics. He leads an active concert life, playing throughout
Europe, Asia and the Americas. read more...
Tuesday 1 October 2013
Lecture SHARON KANACH
Topoi: places and spaces of making and perceiving music
The Shoe Factory, Nicosia / 7:30pm
Every musician or ensemble, before performing in a given space, has a “sound
check&rd! quo; to test the hall, the balance, the ambiance of the venue.
The information thus collected informs the manner in which a given program
will be played; not what will be played (in the case of written music –
improvisation being another question –) but rather how it will be played.
During this presentation we will attempt to shift this process to the
listener by demonstrating that what someone hears is affected by how it is
heard. read more...
Tuesday 1 October 2013
Electronic Music Performance GEHLHAAR’S EYESOUND 2010
The Shoe Factory, Nicosia / 9:30pm
EyeSound is an electronic musical instrument. It uses the kinect control! ler
for the Xbox as developed by Microsoft with software adapted and developed by
Rolf Gehlhaar and Vahakn Matossian. The kinect employs computer vision in
both the visual and infrared spectrum to locate persons within a
3-dimensional visual field. When appropriately decoded, this information can
be used to trigger and control the voices of a synthesiser/sampler such as
AbletonLive.
read more...
Tuesday 1 October 2013
Film Screening STOCKHAUSEN – HELICOPTER STRING QUARTET (2011)
The Shoe Factory, Nicosia / 10:00pm
Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Helicopter-Streichquartett is one of the most
controversial and talked about works of art in ! the recent years. Composed
for the Arditti Quartet and premiered at the 1995 Holland Festival, it
involves the four members of a string quartet playing in four different
helicopters flying through the air. The music the quartet plays is then sent
to a central space and mixed at a sound board. read more...
Wednesday 2 October 2013
Open Rehearsal ENSEMBLE TRANSMISSION
The Shoe Factory, Nicosia / 10:00am
The ENSEMBLE TRANSMISSION will rehearse the world premieres with Thomas
Simaku, Matteo Giuliani and Anthony Green (winners of the first “Call for
Scores” of the International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival) and Cypriot
composer Geor! ge Christofi. The Rehearsals are open to the public and an
open dialogue will follow.
Wednesday 2 October 2013
Concert ENSEMBLE TRANSMISSION
The Shoe Factory, Nicosia / 8:30pm
The Ensemble Transmission is a collective of six musicians who are
independent artists, thinkers and producers. The Ensemble plays mostly modern
and contemporary music from solo to sextet and their concert repertoire is
based entirely on what the members want to play. Alongside, Xenakis’
masterpiece, Transmission’s first concert in Cyprus will feature the world
premieres of the winning works of the Festival’s “Call for Scores”, by Matteo
Giuliani and Anthony Green, as well as a work by Cypriot composer George Christofi.
read more...
Thursday 3 October 2013
Open Rehearsal ENSEMBLE TRANSMISSION
The Shoe Factory, Nicosia / 10:00am
The ENSEMBLE TRANSMISSION will rehearse the world premieres with Thomas
Simaku, Matteo Giuliani and Anthony Green (winners of the first “Call for
Scores” of the International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival) and Cypriot
composer George Christofi. The Rehearsals are open to the public and an open
dialogue will follow.
Thursday 3 October 2013
Concert ENSEMBLE TRANSMISSION
The Shoe Factory, Nicosia / 8:30pm
The Ensemble Tran! smission radiates a fresh and essential energy, offering
an artistic refuge to its members that allows for the constant research and
practice of new performance works. The dedication of these musicians
generates a contagious force, enabling them to present projects that would otherwise
be impossible to realize. Such is the case with their second concert which
consists of a number of world and Cyprus premieres. read more...
Friday 4 October 2013
Lecture THOMAS SIMAKU
Soliloquy Cycle – Sweet and/or Sour?
The Shoe Factory, Nicosia / 7:30pm
In this lecture, Dr Thomas Simaku, Reader in Composition, University ! of
York, will discuss the genesis and processes involved in his Soliloquy Cycle,
including the award-winning work Soliloquy V - Flauto Acerbo, and more! read more...
Friday 4 October 2013
Film Screening JOHN CAGE – JOURNEYS IN SOUND (2012)
The Shoe Factory, Nicosia / 9:30pm
A sonic innovator or an expert on chance? A writer or an anarchist? A
specialist in mushrooms or a performance artist? A Zen master or a cook? John
Cage was all of these things. This documentary by Oscar-winning director
Allan Miller and Emmy-winner Paul Smaczny pays tribute to the most
fascinating American avant-garde composer. read more...
Saturday 5 October 2013
Lecture NOURITZA MATOSSIAN
Recollections on the Cyprus Music Workshop 1973
The Shoe Factory, Nicosia / 7:30pm
The Cyprus Music Workshop, organized in 1973 in Lapithos, was the first ever
event in Cyprus to present contemporary music by Cypriot and visiting foreign
musicians. The Workshop was documented on film, by Leandros Avraamides. As
Nouritza Matossian remembers: The Cyprus Music Workshop started as a dream -
to bring together musicians from different countries to live and work in a
genuine Cypriot community with Cypriot musicians.! The idea that each person
paid for his own travelling and living expenses, spent a proportion of the
day swimming and getting acquainted with Cyprus playing music mornings and
evenings without being paid, sounded too idealistic to those who first heard
of it. "Impossible", they said. It caught the imagination of 35
wonderful musicians however. And it became a reality. read more...
Saturday 5 October 2013
Dance Performance ARIANNA ECONOMOU
John Cage’s Sixteen Dances
The Shoe Factory, Nicosia / 9:30pm
Like many of his other pieces, Sixteen Dances was created alongside Cage’s
closest artistic collaborator, Merce Cunningham. The choreography was
concerned with the nine emotions of the Hindu classical aesthetic, using
titles such as “Anger”, “Sorrow”, “Fear” and “Tranquillity”. This commission
was closely attuned to Cage’s own study of Indian philosophy, and acted as a
stimulus to the changes in his compositional approach in this period. Sixteen
Dances has nine movements and seven related interludes, all of which are developed
by chance methodology. The individual sequences, and durations for each were
discovered by a combination of using the I Ching and tossing coins. read more...
Sunday 6 October 2013
Lecture NEUE VOCALSOLISTEN The Shoe Factory, Nicosia / 10:30am
Contemporary Vocal Techniques as used in Seminal Works of the 20th Century
One of the most renowned vocal ensembles in Europe, the Neue Vocalsolisten
focus extensively on research: exploring new sounds, new vocal techniques and
new forms of articulation, whereby great emphasis is placed on establishing a
dialogue with composers. Central to the Ensemble’s artistic concept are the
areas of music theatre and the interdisciplinary work with electronics,
video, visual arts and literature, as well as the juxtaposition of
contrasting elements found in ancient and contemporary music. read more...
Sunday 6 October 2013
Concert NEUE VOCALSOLISTEN
The Shoe Factory, Nicosia / 8:30pm
Established as an ensemble specializing in the interpretation of contemporary
vocal music in 1984, the Neue Vocalstolisten comprises seven concert and
opera soloists, with a collective range reaching from coloratura soprano over
countertenor to “basso profondo”. It is through its unique artistic
creativity that the Ensemble shapes its work on chamber music and forms its
collaborations with composers and other interpreters. Their partners are
specialist ensembles and radio orchestras, opera houses and the free theatre
scene, electronic studios and countless organizers of contemporary music
festivals and concert series in the world. read more...
INFORMATION &
TICKETS:
Information: Pharos Arts Foundation Tel. +35722663871 / www.pharosartsfoundation.org
Tickets: Free Entrance except Concerts on 30 September and 2, 3 & 6
October: €10
Box Office: Tel. 7000-9304 (daily 9.30-11.30am) / www.pharostickets.org
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