2nd Pharos International Contemporary Music Festival

The mission of the Pharos International Contemporary Music Festival is to propagate the music of 20th and 21st centuries and showcase avant-garde compositions from all over the world. The Festival aims to provide a forum for composers and performers to advance and develop new projects, and aspires to establish itself as an annual event of international scope.

Now in its second year, the Pharos International Contemporary Music Festival continues to diversify by presenting four exciting concerts,  from 1 until 4 September 2010.

Concerts: 1-3 September 2010/ The Shoe Factory / 8.30pm

The first three concerts will take place at The Shoe Factory and will present eight distinguished soloists: the internationally-acclaimed Kreutzer String Quartet, Jan Philip Schulze (piano), Roger Heaton (clarinet), Michael Thompson (horn), as well as the exceptionally talented flutist Virginie Bove who resides in Cyprus. The programme will include a range of works – the majority of which will be Cyprus premieres – by over 15 contemporary composers, including Ligeti, Kurtág, Reich, Xenakis and Berio. The most exciting aspect of the three concerts will be the World-Premiere of The Pharos Quartets – four newly commissioned works by four Cypriot composers: Andreas Moustoukis, Vassos Nikolaou, Yiannis Kyriakides and, the Festival's artistic director, Evis Sammoutis.

Wednesday, 1 September 2010
The Shoe Factory / 8.30pm

Mauricio Kagel (1931 – 2008)
MM 51 for piano and metronome (1983)

Yiannis Kyriakides (b. 1969)  
Unvoice for clarinet, piano, violin and computer
Pharos Commission: World-premiere

Toru Takemitsu (1930 – 1996)           
Distance de Fee for violin and piano (1951)

György Kurtág (b. 1926)           
Schleedoyer 1 & 2 (1991)

interval

Igor Stravinsky (1882 – 1971)       
Three pieces for string quartet (1914)

Harrison Birtwistle (b. 1934) 
Clarinet Quintet (1980)

Iannis Xenakis (1922 – 2001)       
Tetras (1983)

Contributors
Composer	Yannis Kyriakides
Organizer	The Pharos Arts Foundation