Cristo Barrios & Elias String Quartet

Wed Nov 24, 2010

20:30

Location

The Shoe Factory
304 Ermou Street
Nicosia, Nicosia

Phone: 70009304

Description

The Pharos Arts Foundation presents a concert with the Spanish clarinettist Cristo Barrios, described by UK's International Record Review as "an alert, sensitive player who knows how to make new audiences for his instrument", and the Elias String Quartet, whose performances are described by The Sunday Telegraph as "Marvellous playing, poetic, charismatic, virtuosic".

The concert will include Britten's Three Divertimenti and Schumann's String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, as well as the world premiere of a new work for clarinet and string quartet by the Cypriot composer and conductor Christina Athinodorou, whose works have been described by NuovaSesto Periodico as "looking back at her tradition to trace, through music, the path of her homeland, Cyprus, transporting the audience to a Mediterranean aura with an exotic taste."

Programme:

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Three Divertimenti (1933)

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 41 (1842)

interval

Christina Athinodorou (b. 1981)
STERNA for clarinet quintet World premiere

(Limited Seating, Pre-booking essential)