Three gifted Cypriot artists, current worldwide repertoire from totally different nations. Vakia Stavrou – voice, Manolis Neophytou – piano and Nikolas Efthymiou – viola, will carry out PADAM PADAM, HISTORIA DE UN AMOR, MOONRIVER, MARIA DE BUENOS AIRES, beloved songs written by Astor Piazzolla, Edith Piaf, Carlos Gardel. Manos Hadjidakis and others.
Concerning the artists
Vakia Stavrou, initially from Cyprus, is an internationally acclaimed singer and songwriter, based mostly in Paris, France. After ending her music research on the Prague Conservatory, she pursued a profession within the music business and has made an vital debut after being signed by SONY Music in Athens, Greece.
Her personal composition “SOZINHA” which she recorded in Portuguese, has quickly change into a significant hit in Greece quickly after the discharge of her first album and never lengthy after, in lots of nations in Europe and Latin America. Her capability of writing and performing in lots of languages in such a perfection, is one in all her strongest property.
Vakia has already toured in lots of nations, presenting her work in numerous vital music festivals and in numerous music halls and theatres . To say a couple of : Pageant Au Fil des Voix –PARIS, Mawazine Pageant Rythms of the World – CASABLANCA, Klangvokal World Music Pageant – DORTMUND, Barnasants Songwriters’s Pageant, BARCELONA , Teatro Sao Luiz – LISBON, New Opera Theater – MOSCOW, Gasteig – MUNICH. She was additionally invited from the United Nations to carry out in Geneva , Switzerland in 2016 in a prestigious gala live performance within the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilization’s Chamber, accompanied by the Symphony Orchestra of Morocco.
Her newest album “ALASIA” ( 2017) produced by the French Label “Accords Croises” in Paris, options her identification as a songwriter along with her personal compositions , written in three languages. The well-known Portuguese author and poet, Jose Luis PEIXOTO ( Nomitated with the Jose Saramago Award ) has contributed on this album by writing particularly for Vakia, two poems that efficiently, she became songs.
Vakia has described by the Worldwide Press as “ a wide ranging voice that strikes the audiences without delay” and even “ a extremely subtle and enchanting artist, that makes one hear the huge fantastic thing about her voice” [ Bertrand Dicale , France Culture ] Her ongoing initiatives embody an upcoming recording of her new album in Paris and concert events throughout Europe.
www.vakiamusic.com
Manolis Neophytou carried out his first solo recital on the age of 11, simply earlier than he entered the Moscow’s Central Particular State Music Faculty of the ex-Soviet Union, the place he studied for eight years with Professor Rudolf Kehrer.
Manolis, in the course of the interval 1996-2002 studied on the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, with scholarship from Nicolas Economou Basis. He additionally studied in Ecole Normale in Paris with a scholarship from the Albert Russell Basis. In 2004, he has obtained the Masters in Piano Efficiency from the College of London with scholarship from the State Scholarships Basis of Greece.
Manolis represented Cyprus on the Eurovision Classical Contests in Brussels (1992), Warsaw (1994) and Lisbon (1996), after profitable the Cyprus Nationwide Competitions . He acquired a number of prizes in worldwide piano competitions: 4th Prize at Senigallia Worldwide Piano Competitors (Italy, 1994), 1st Prize on the Inter-Mediterranean Music Pageant (Palermo, Italy, 1995), and 2nd Prize on the Thimis Piano Competitors (Megaron Mousikis, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2002).
His efficiency actions embody solo recitals and concert events in Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Russia, Poland, Italy, Hungary, France, Eire, U.Okay., Korea, South Africa and Cyprus.
Homage to Greek Music is the title of his first CD album and acquired an excellent overview from Mikis Theodorakis. He has additionally written music for the documentary movie by Alessia de Ninno, which acquired a prize from the NFT (Nationwide Movie Theatre) of London.
He’s instructing piano in Arte Academy of Music, European College of Cyprus and State Music Colleges in Cyprus.
Being drawn to the sport of sound from a really early age Nikolas Efthymiou discovered within the viola an inexhaustible pool of potentialities to type and rework his goals. He began finding out the violin with Cypriot violinist Andreas Nikolaou at Cyprus Odeon and Trinity Faculty which he concluded on the age of 14. Additional research had been undertaken in Germany on violin and viola with Stelios Kafantaris, M.Speerman, Frank Strauch, and John Kinsella. Throughout his research in Hochschule fuer Musik Weimar he particpated in Hochschulorchester Weimar and cooperated with Weimar Staatscapelle, and Jenaer Philarmonie. Solo recitals in Spain, Germany, France, Serbia, Greece and Cyprus. He has additionally taken half in a number of music workshops and festivals like Dangerous Sobernheim Musik academy, Weimar Sommerakademie, Apple Hill Heart for Chamber Music, Detmold Musikhochschule – Meisterkurse and he studied within the lessons of identified musicians like T.Zehetmair, V.Klimov, T.Brandis, W.Christ, E.Krueger,Cr. Euler, L.Matczynsky. In 2007 Nikolas Efthymiou varieties the experimental ‘’Ensemble Informal’’ which seeks to bridge a number of music durations and types starting from Baroque to Tango and Jazz. He has participated as a soloist or as chamber music musician in prestigious festivals in Cyprus like Cypria, Paphos2017, Faneromeni ans others. Nikolas Efthymiou is energetic as Pedagogue in Cyprus College’s Music Development Program, in Youth Orchestra’s scholarship program for younger soloist, in addition to in Music-Gymnasiums/Lyceums.
When Thursday, December 16 at 8pm
The place Pallas Theatre Nicosia
Location
Tickets: €13 | €10
