Wednesday 19 March 2008, Rialto Theatre, Lemesos, 20:30
Thursday 20 March 2008, Markideion Theatre, Pafos, 20:30
Friday 21 March 2008, Strovolos Municipal Theatre, Lefkosia, 20:30
Music Direction: Vladimiros Symeonides
Programme:
A. Yangopoulos: Concert Overtura
N. Troullos: Three Cypriot dances
M. Panagiotou: Riss im Unsagbaren
P. Dymiotis: Academic Overture
Suite for String Orchestra
Divertimento
Tickets available at the Theatres’ box office at €9 and at €5 for pensioners
Free entrance for students, soldiers, student card and EURO<26 card holders
In collaboration with the Centre of Cypriot Composers
The Centre of Cypriot Composers was founded on the 19th September 1999, aiming to fulfill social needs within an already mature environment. Its creation was the realization of the composers’ aspirations for both the organization and coordination of their common aims and preoccupations, as well as the reflection of their determination for a more pronounced presence and active contribution in the musical and cultural life of Cyprus. The Centre of Cypriot Composers, now numbering 45 composers that represent different musical styles and trends, has presented to date 30 concerts all over Cyprus.
Vladimiros Symeonides was born in Katerini, Greece in 1972. He started music lessons at the Municipal Odeon of Katerini, in the class of John Adamides and continued his studies at the Neon Odeion of Thessaloniki in the class of Christos Samaras. Thereafter he studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna both composition, in the class of Erich Urbanner, and orchestral conducting in the class of Uros Lajovic, and graduated with the academic degree ”Magister Artium”. He is also a graduate of the Music Department of the Aristotle University Thessaloniki. Vladimiros Symeonides has conducted many orchestras as well as music ensembles such as the Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSO Wien), the ensembles of contemporary music “die reihe”, “Klangforum Wien” and “DissonArt”, the Athens and Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestras, the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, and the “Sinfonietta Beograd”. He has also conducted opera and ballet productions at the National Greek Opera and has recorded for the Greek and Austrian Radio. Since October 2006 he is the chief conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of the Greek Radio-Television (ERT).
