The 11th International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival will open with the C Barré Plucked Trio performing the The (plucked) Strings Theory Project on Friday 4 October 2019 at 8:30pm at The Shoe Factory Nicosia. This event is kindly supported by the French Institute of Cyprus. 

A truly exciting programme for the unusual combination of mandolin, harp and guitar, that offers numerous timbral and technical possibilities!

 The C Barré Plucked Trio (Eva Debonne / harp, Natalia Korsak / mandolin/ Thomas Kech / guitar) is formed from the Ensemble C Barré – an instrumental ensemble of twelve core musicians founded and directed by Sébastien Boin.

 

C BARRE Trio

 

The (plucked) Strings Theory Project involves the commission and presentation of new and existing repertoire featuring an ensemble of three plucked strings: mandolin, guitar and harp. The unique combination of a plucked trio was immortalised in the 20th century by composer Goffredo Petrassi with his Seconda Serenata in 1962. A few years later, Hans-Werner Henze composed his Carillon, Récitatif, and Masque. This wonderful combination offers exciting and original timbral possibilities, and it is still underrepresented. The (plucked) Strings Theory Project aims to showcase this distinctive repertoire and ignite more interest. As part of a French American Cultural Exchange Grant, Ensemble C Barré was awarded in 2018, it commissioned new works from Evis Sammoutis, Frédéric Pattar and Birke Bertelsmeier. These works were premiered in France and subsequently in the USA, with Cyprus being their third destination.

Programme:
Fausto Romitelli (1963-2004): Have Your Trip (1989)
Hans Werner Henze (1926-2012): Carillon, Récitatif, Masque (1974)
Evis Sammoutis (b.1979): Polychordo (2019)
Birke Bertelsmeier (b.1981): Ratzfatz (2019)
Frédéric Pattar (b.1969): Au Coeur d’Une (2018) world premiere

 

Contemporary Music Festival Pharos 2019

 

11th International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival

4 - 13 october 2019

Box Office:
Directly from the Foundation’s website www.pharosartsfoundation.org/Tickets_online.htm     
Tel. +357 22 663871  (Monday - Friday 10:00am-3:00pm)

Tickets: €15 / €10 Concessions & members of the Pharos Arts Foundation

The Shoe factory (304 Ermou Street 1017, Nicosia)