JAZZ AT THE SHOE FACTORY 9 September 2017 The Shoe Factory, Nicosia
TAKOUSHIS-KARAPATAKIS PROJECT FEAT. UDO DEMANDT
Pharos Review The resourceful yet unassuming music disposition of pianist/composer Marios Takoushis and bassist/ composer Gabriel Karapatakis, exuding a modern and distinctive European jazz sound and based on strong melodies and virtuosic improvisations, defies any self-classification. Their music is developed from the fundamentals of jazz improvisation and individual self-expression, displaying original ideas which are inspired by the music traditions of the Mediterranean. And while it does not engage in loud and ostentatious conversations with these traditions, it brings about “memories”, which are stemming from the two artists’ motherland – Cyprus, but also from the evolution of the jazz genre, and which are deeply embedded, inseparably intertwined even, in the Project’s musical corpus. The Pharos Arts Foundation opened its Fall season 2017 with this highly acclaimed jazz duo, who joined forces with the renowned German percussion virtuoso Udo Demandt in a deeply inspiring, sold-out, concert.
15 September 2017 The Shoe Factory, Nicosia
VIOLIN RECITAL
EMMANUEL TJEKNAVORIAN
Pharos Review Pharos was thrilled to welcome the return visit of the sensational Emmanuel Tjeknavorian. Winner in such important competitions as the Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in 2015, the Fritz Kreisler Violin Competition in 2014 and the Johannes Brahms Competition, Emmanuel Tjeknavorian has already achieved international acclaim, and has appeared in some of the world’s most important concert venues, including Vienna Musikverein, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Boston Symphony Hall and the Helsinki Music Centre. Despite his young age, Tjeknavorian has already appeared as a soloist with such renowned orchestras as the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and the Munich Chamber Orchestra. Emmanuel Tjeknavorian’s electrifying recital at The Shoe Factory inaugurated the beginning of an extensive tour in some of Europe’s most prestigious venues, including the Musikverein in Vienna, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Philharmonie in Luxembourg and Barbican in the UK, where he was scheduled to perform the same programme: J. S. Bach’s Sonata in G minor, BWV 1001; Ysaÿe’s extremely popular, yet tremendously taxing Violin Sonata No.1 in G minor, Op.27; Prokofiev’s Sonata for Violin solo in D major, Op.115; excerpts from Enescu’s evocative Impressions d’ Enfance; Ernst’s Variations on “The Last Rose of Summer” – a work that is so fiendishly difficult for the violinist that that only a handful of violinists have recorded it in history; and Suite des Alpes – a new work composed by the acclaimed Austrian composer Christoph Ehrenfellner.