CYPROPHONIA 3 – CySO & CyYSO side-by-side concert

CYPROPHONIA 3  –  CySO & CyYSO side-by-side concert 

PROGRAMME
Camille Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, op. 28
Paul Creston: Concertino for marimba and orchestra, op. 21
Gustav Mahler: Symphony no. 1 in D major (“Titan”)
 
Loucas Demetriou violin
Petros Chimonides marimba
Cyprus Symphony Orchestra
& Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra
Yiorgos Kountouris conductor
 
The artistic season ends with a spectacular side-by-side concert of the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra and the Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra. The festive summer production “Cyprophonia 3” is the culmination of this season for both orchestras, as they join forces to form a fully-fledged symphony orchestra and perform three stunning masterpieces under the baton of the CyYSO Artistic Director, Yiorgos Kountouris.
 

The young, talented members of the Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra, share their enthusiasm and youthful passion with the professional musicians – many of whom are their coaches at the CyYSO Music Academy – offering to the audience an extraordinary and precious showcase of cocreation of the highest caliber. 

This production showcases the talents of two highly promising young musicians from the youth orchestra who will perform as soloists. Loucas Demetriou, CyYSO concertmaster,will perform the dazzling “Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso”by Camille Saint-Saëns,whose masterycombines exquisite melodic lines, emotional depth and plenty of virtuosic display. Petros Chimonides, CyYSO principal percussionist, will perform Paul Creston’s Concertino for marimba and orchestra (1940), a work with Ravelian flavor, imbued with harmonic and rhythmic elements of jazz and Latin-American music. 

 
And then comes the “Titan”! Gustav Mahler’s 1^st Symphony, a landmark in the history of the symphonic genre. The depiction of nature, the use of folk elements, a gigantic orchestrational scheme and poetical mysticism are a few of Mahler’s individual compositional traits.
 
Venue:
Lefkosia
Skali Amphitheatre, Aglantzia

Date: Friday 30 June 2023 

Time:  20:30

Ticket prices:
€15 / €10 (concession)
 
Concession tickets are available to:
Students, soldiers, pensioners, large and five-member families on presentation of ID.
Free Entrance for people with disabilities. 
 
Ticket presales:

• Online at www.cyso.org.cy
• At Pallas Theatre Box Office on Wednesdays 21/6 and 28/6: 16:00-19:00
• 2 hrs before the concert

 
Information: 22 463144, www.cyso.org.cy
 
 
For more information you may contact Constantia Elia at 22 463135, email: [email protected]