Tuesday 9 June 2009, Rialto Theatre, Lemesos, 20:30
Wednesday 10 June 2009, Strovolos Municipal Theatre, Lefkosia, 20:30
Thursday 11 June 2009, Markideion Theatre, Pafos, 20:30
Soloists: Jack Liebeck (violin), Svetlana Ristic (flute)
Music Direction: Lukas Karytinos
Programme:
E. Bloch: Suite Modale for Flute and Orchestra
F. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
J. Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in D major (“London”)
Ticket prices: 10 and 5 euro for pensioners. Tickets available at the Theatres’ box office
Free entrance for students, soldiers, student card and EURO<26 card holders
Born in 1980 in London, Jack Liebeck began playing the violin at the age of eight. From 1989-1999 he attended the Purcell School of Music and then the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Professor Mateja Marinkovic. Since making his concerto debut with the Hallé Orchestra, Jack has performed with many orchestras of international repute, including the Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, English Chamber, Bournemouth Symphony, Lausanne Chamber, Philharmonia and the Royal Scottish National Orchestras. Jack has toured in the UK and abroad with the Belgian National, the English Chamber and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestras, and has appeared under the baton of many renowned conductors including Martyn Brabbins, Gunter Herbig, Alexander Lazarev, Sir Neville Marriner, Sakari Oramo, Libor Pesek, Jukka Pekka Saraste, Yuri Simonov, Leonard Slatkin, Bramwell Tovey and Barry Wordsworth. Ιn 2002 he made his acclaimed London recital debut to a sold-out Wigmore Hall. Musical collaborations have included performances with Katya Apekisheva, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Julius Drake, Bengt Forsberg, Lynn Harrell, Angela Hewitt, Piers Lane, Christopher Maltman, Leon MacCawley, Charles Owen, Joan Rodgers, Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Ashley Wass. Jack has appeared at many major festivals including Bath, Cheltenham, Harrogate, Kuhmo, Montpellier, Montreux, Reims, Spoleto and the Australian Festival of Chamber Music. Jack is also the leader of the Fibonacci Sequence chamber ensemble. Recent performances include the Mendelssohn Concerto with the Indianapolis Symphony and Douglas Boyd and the Magnus Lindberg concerto with Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra in Spain, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and Oslo Philharmonic orchestras, as well as a return to the Australian Chamber Music Festival and recitals in St George’s Hall Liverpool and St George’s Hall Birmingham for the BBC, London’s Wigmore Hall, Bath International Festival and an acclaimed recital at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. He has now signed an exclusive contract with SONY Classical who will release recordings of the Dvorak Concerto, Sonata and Sonatina, and the Brahms Violin Sonatas with Katya Apekisheva. Jack is Artistic Director of Oxford May Music Festival that had its highly successful inaugural year in 2008. Jack plays the ‘Ex-Wilhelmj’ J.B. Guadagnini dated 1785.
Lukas Karytinos was born in Athens. He studied Theory of Music and Piano at the Odeon of Athens and he is a graduate of the Law School of the University of Athens. From 1976 until 1981 he studied conducting at the University of Arts of West Berlin with H. Alendorf. At the same time, he attended conducting lessons at the Mozarteum, in Salzburg. Between 1981 and 1985 he worked in Germany and since 1985 he works as Chief Conductor of the Greek National Opera, where he was appointed Music Director in 1992 and held the position of Artistic Director between from 1999 to 2005. During his stay in Berlin, he worked as Music Director of the Sharlontenburg Chamber Orchestra, Berlin and Director of the “Piccolo Teatro Berolino”. He has worked as the Director of the Municipal Odeon of Volos, as professor at the theatre school of “Amphi-Theatro” and works as professor at the Athens Odeon. He has collaborated with the National Theare and “Amphi-Theatro”. In 1997 he founded the orchestra “Enharmonia” and has been its Artistic Director ever since. Lukas Karytinos has repeatedly appeared with all the orchestras of Greece and has participated in the Festivals such as the Athens Festival, Arena di Verona, Caracalla in Rome, Las Palmas and many others. He has collaborated with distinguished Opera Theatres such as those of Berlin, Barcelona, Cologne, Monte Carlo, Detroit, Bern, Salzburg, Rome, Catania and others. Outside Greece, he has conducted in most European countries, Korea, the U.S.A., Australia, Turkey, Egypt and others. In 1989, he was awarded the “Golden Medal of Honour” by the Athens Municipality, for his “excellent services” in the music field. In 2001 he received the “Dimitris Mitropoulos” Prize from the 3rd Programme – EPA. For his promotion of Italian opera, he was honoured in 2006 by the President of the Italian Republic as “Commendatore dell’ Ordine della Solidarietà Italiana”. In 2008, the Union of Greek Critics for Drama and Music awarded him with the “Great Music Prize”.
