Friday 21 May 2010, Rialto Theatre, Lemesos, 20:30
Wednesday 26 May 2010, Strovolos Municipal Theatre, 20:30
Thursday 27 May 2010, Markideion Theatre, Pafos, 20:30
Soloist: Andri Hadjiandreou (piano)
Conductor: Carmen Moral
Programme:
S. Serghi: Shall We Dance?
A. Khachaturian: Piano Concerto in D flat major
A. Khachaturian: Masquerade Suite
S. Prokofiev: Sinfonietta, Op. 5/48
€12 and pensioners €7
Free entrance for students, soldiers and EURO<26 card holders
Tickets available at the Theatres’ box office
After winning First Prize and Praise at the 14th Panhellenic Piano Competition in Athens in 1999, Cypriot pianist Andri Hadjiandreou continued her musical studies under the guidance of distinguished pianist Susan Starr, student of Rudolf Serkin. Her performances have taken her to Greece, USA, Germany, UK, France and Cyprus, where she collaborated with conductors Alexander Ivashkin, Patrick Gardner, William Berz, Kynan Johns, Roland Melia, Maciej Zoltowsky, Tim Hooper, and Yiorgos Kountouris. During the 2009-2010 season she was invited to perform at International Festivals such as the Kypria International Festival, the 6th Ledra Music Soloists International Chamber Music Festival and the Alfred Schnittke Festival at Queen Elizabeth Hall, which included the world premier of Schnittke’s Concerto for Electric Instruments and the world premier of Schnittke’s works for voice and piano with soprano Margarita Elia. She has also performed for Avant-garde Cultural Foundation and within the Artists Series of the Pharos Trust Foundation. Andri also collaborates closely with Cypriot composers and she regularly performs their works both in Cyprus and abroad, including a number of world premiers. Andri is a graduate of Ethnikon Odeon Kyprou where she studied with Loulou Symeonidou, a magna cum laude of Rutgers University (USA) where she obtained a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Music – Piano Performance with “High Honors”. As a Leventis Foundation scholar, she is currently pursuing a PhD in Performance Practice and Related Studies at the University of London, under the guidance of Andrew Zolinsky (performance) and Anthony Pryer (research). Her PhD thesis is titled “Intentions and Interpretations: Narrativity as a Performance Tool to the 19th-Century Piano Ballade”. She has also worked with Professors Barbara Gonzalez-Palmer, Judith Lefkosia, Jonathan Spitz, Matthew Sullivan, and Scott Whitener. Andri is currently a piano instructor at the Music department of the University of Lefkosia, the CyYSO Academy of Lefkosia and the “Ethnikon Odeon” of Cyprus.
Carmen Moral studied conducting with Ionel Perlea of New York’s Metropolitan and with Laszlo Halasz, one of the founders of the City Center Opera of New York. She holds Master’s degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and Columbia University (New York) and a Master’s degree and a DEA in Musicology from the Sorbonne (Paris). Carmen Moral was the first woman to become a Music Director and Conductor of a major Latin American orchestra: the National Symphony Orchestra of Peru, her native country. She was selected for this position by a competition in which she was the only woman participant. Since then, several orchestras have entrusted her with the post of Music Director, such as the Bogota Philharmonic (Colombia), I. Frauen-Kammerorchester von Österreich (Vienna), the Symphony Orchestra of Mimar Sinan University (Istanbul), and, for a second time, the National Symphony Orchestra of Peru. She served for six years as First Conductor of the Istanbul State Opera. Carmen Moral’s repertoire encompasses a wide range of musical styles and genres – symphony, opera and chamber music – represented in more than 450 works. She has conducted numerous world premieres. The George Enescu Philharmonic (Bucharest), the Symphony Orchestra of Russia (Moscow), the Tonkünstlerorchester (Vienna), the Buenos Aires Philharmonic, the Pasdeloup Orchestra (Paris), the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, and the Chamber Orchestras of Lausanne and Vienna are among the 65 orchestras that have invited Carmen Moral as a guest conductor. Her concerts in 26 countries of Europe, Asia and the Americas have taken her to such theaters as the Grosser Musikvereinsaal of Vienna, the Kennedy Center of Washington, D.C., the Bolshoi Hall of Moscow Conservatory, the Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires, the Teatro Bellas Artes of Mexico, D.F., the Theater of the Nationalities of Beijing, the Salle Pleyel of Paris, etc. Her critically acclaimed performances have brought her new invitations by orchestras in France, Argentine, Spain, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Turkey, and Colombia. Ms Moral currently teaches conducting in Boston’s Berklee College of Music. She had the honor of becoming Conductor Emeritus of the National Symphony Orchestra of Peru and a “Gran Oficial” of the Merit Order-City of Bogota. Recently, she has been named Honorary Professor of the National Conservatory of Perú.
