Wednesday 1 December 2010, Strovolos Municipal Theatre, Lefkosia, 20:30
Thursday 2 December 2010, Markideion Theatre, Pafos, 20:30
Friday 3 December 2010, Larnaka Municipal Theatre, 20:30
Soloist: Sophia Jaffé (violin)
Conductor: Spiros Pisinos
Programme:
C. M. von Weber: Der Freischütz, J. 277: Overture
J. Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47
P. I. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
€12 and pensioners €7
Free entrance for students, soldiers and EURO<26 card holders
Tickets available at the Theatres’ box office
Born in a musical family in Berlin, Sophia Jaffé has given public performances from the age of seven and has received various prizes at national and international violin competitions, including 2003 Leopold Mozart competition in Augsburg, 2004 Concours de Genèva. In 2005, she won the German Music Competition Berlin and the third prize at the famous Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. As a soloist and chamber musician, she plays concerts and recitals at music festivals such as the Rheingau Musik-Festival, Bachfest Leipzig, Flaneries Musicals de Reims (France), Moravian Autumn. Her concerts brought her, besides European countries, also to Chile, Japan and USA. In the 2008/09 season, Sophia Jaffé played her debuts in London Cadogan Hall, in Jerusalem, Prague Rudolfinum a Shenzhen (China). Sophia Jaffé regularly cooperates with numerous European orchestras and conductors, besides others with Radio Orchestra Berlin (Marek Janowski), Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra (Dennis Russell Davies), Hallé Orchestra Manchester (Rory Macdonald), National Symphony Orchestra of Belgium (Gilbert Varga), Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin (Lothar Zagrosek), Radio Symphony Orchestra Prague (Vladimír Válek) and I Solisti Veneti (Claudio Scimone). Her wide repertoire includes over 40 violin concertos from the baroque repertoire to 20th century pieces. Ms. Jaffé playing has been recorded in numerous TV programmes; she cooperates regularly with Deutschlandradio Berlin, SWR and the Czech Radio and TV.
Conductor Spiros Pisinos held the position of chief conductor and artistic director of the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra between 2005 and 2008. He has conducted orchestras including the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, Milan’s Pomeriggi Musicali, Genoa’s Carlo Felice Οpera Οrchestra, the Sinfonia Finlandia, the Athens and Thessaloniki State Orchestras and the West Australia Symphony. He has toured with the Orchestre National de Montpellier which he has also conducted from the piano as soloist, the Nuremberg Symphony and the Mariinsky Young Philharmonic Orchestra following an invitation by Valery Gergiev. On his initiative and under his artistic direction, Spiros Pisinos founded and conducted the Ensemble Philharmonia composed by professional Greek Cypriot, Turkish Cypriot and other accomplished musicians from European Union member states. Since 2004, the Ensemble Philharmonia has performed in Cyprus and Paris with great success. In the operatic realm, Spiros Pisinos has conducted at Dusseldorf’s Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Bremen, Cottbus and Mannheim Operas working on a particularly wide repertoire. In 1999 and 2000 he assisted Antonio Pappano (Music Director of Royal Opera Covent Garden) in major operatic productions, and subsequently Kurt Masur at the New York Philharmonic and Orchestre National de France. Spiros Pisinos also performs chamber music as a pianist. Noteworthy performances include his collaboration with the Jerusalem String Quartet and the Vienna String Soloists, an 11-member ensemble of the Vienna Philharmonic. Spiros Pisinos is a recipient of the French government’s Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.
