Contemporary Music Festival
The Pharos Arts Foundation has
recently introduced the First International Contemporary Music Festival, the
mission of which is to propagate the music of 20th and 21st centuries and
showcase avant-garde compositions from all over the world.
The Festival aims to provide a forum for composers and performers to advance
and develop new projects, and aspires to establish itself as an annual event
of international scope. The First International Contemporary Music Festival
comprised five concerts on five consecutive evenings, 26 - 30 August 2009.
The exceptionally rich and diverse programme included a number of classical
20th century masterpieces as well as recently composed works by the younger
generation of composers from all over the world.
Having embraced a variety of musical styles, aesthetics and trends, the
First International Contemporary Music Festival featured over 40 works -
most of which were Cyprus premieres - by 38 composers, including
Stockhausen, Ligeti, Varese, Scelsi, Xenakis, Berio, Crumb and Messiaen.
