Wednesday 13 January 2010, Strovolos Municipal Theatre, Lefkosia, 20:30
Thursday 14 January 2010, Markideion Theatre, Pafos, 20:30
Friday 15 January 2010, Rialto Theatre, Lemesos, 20:30
Conductor and Soloist: Notis Georgiou (guitar)
Programme:
V. Tenidis: Tarregiana
A. Haralambous: Eros tas Aphroditas – ballet, Overture
Johann Strauss Jr.: Zigeunerbaron (Gypsy Baron) – Overture
Pizzicato Polka
Wiener Blut, Op. 354 (Vienna Blood)
Fledermaus (Bat) – Overture
Josef Strauss: Delirien, Op. 212
Ticket prices: 12 and 7 euro for pensioners. Tickets available at the Theatres’ box office
Free entrance for students, soldiers, student card and EURO<26 card holders
Notis Georgiou was born in 1976. He graduated with honors from the Franz Liszt Academy in composition, guitar performance and orchestral conducting. In the history of the Institution and the Hungarian Ministry of Education only he has been allowed, due to exceptional talent, to complete a 5-year course in only 3 years. He has also studied composition and conducting in Florence with masters such as Carlo Maria Giulini, Piero Bellugi, Zubin Mehta, Rudolf Barshai, Yuri Simonov, Marek Janowski, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Péter Eötvös. Georgiou has met international acclaim resulting to a series of world premieres of works by several European masters. While still a student he served as Conductor and Manager of the Symphony Orchestra of the Hungarian Ministry of Interior, Music Director and Conductor of the Béla Bartók Music Academy Symphony Orchestra. He is Music Director and Conductor of the Vass Lajos Symphony Orchestra and Conductor of the Budapest Concert Orchestra, a world renowned orchestra mainly remembered through its participation in several prestigious projects such as The 3 tenors with Luciano Pavarotti, José Careras, Placido Domingo and James Levine. Notis Georgiou is the youngest and the only Cypriot member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
“A conductor with an overwhelming, effortless dynamism,…an extraordinary talent with extraordinarily high standard musical gifts, sovereign artistic value and psychological mastery. A most mature artist predestined for a beautiful future.”
Hungarian State Opera House music review (Medveczky Ádám)
