4th Avaton Music Festival

Avaton Music Festival is a unique event, combining educational and artistic approaches in live electronic and acoustic music. An international festival of contemporary and new music, over a three day weekend, it presents lectures, concerts, workshops and seminars.

Avaton is the first festival in Cyprus experimenting with merging technological developments and performing arts on the highest level towards understanding the art music of today. It aims to provide exclusive and unique artistic experiences to a broader audience; to be an international platform for new music and related contemporary art forms in Cyprus; to enthuse existing audiences and draw in new ones through adventurous programing and informed, stylish presentation and to be an active European cultural partner.

The festival aims to present and explain the constant changes in the post-modern music world. Seen through the prism of our society and individual artistic developments, it researches the questions of form and content, technological developments and its influence on classical acoustic music. It also aims to bring together local musicians and composers with their European colleagues in a mutual collaboration through commissioning new pieces, organizing and performing in mixed ensembles, collaboration and exchanges with other similar festivals throughout Europe. Avaton Music Festival had so far three successful editions hosting over thirty renowned composers and performers presenting numerous concerts and lectures.

Programme

Friday June 6th Theatro Ena

19:00 / Welcoming note
19:30 / Presentation: Introduction of the new instrument by Jasna Velickovic (composer)
20:30 / Concert I :“Extended Multi Percussion Performance” Diego Espinosa (percussion)

Saturday June 7th Theatro Ena

18:30 / Concert II :Young Performers Competition – Final Round
20:30 / Concert III: Minstrel Project
Nikos Pittas (violin), George Georgiou (clarinet), Annini Tsiouti (piano),Nicos Ioannou (double bass), Marios Nicolaou (percussion(
22:00 / Concert IV: An evening with the composer “Tunguska Glow” World premier of the new project by composers Jasna Velickovic and Vladimir Rakic

Sunday June 8th

(School of Music Novia Mavromoustaki - contact: 25321104)
11:30 / Workshop
Make your own electronic instrument
Dr. Nasia Therapontos (electronic music composer performer and researcher)

Theatro Ena
18:30 / Lecture : The Expanding Multi Percussionist: Performance Practice in Music and Beyond Diego Espinosa (percussion)

19:30 / avatonDistorted part I : Play your electronics
workshop concert and Performance by the Students from the Music School of Limassol “Marios Tokas”

20:30 / Concert V : Works by Xenakis, Lang, Kyriakides, Horlea, Koeszeghy and Giannoutakis Sorin Alexandrou Horlea (violin), Nicos Ioannou (double bass) George Georgiou (clarinet, bass clarinet), Marios Nicolaou
(percussion), Annini Tsiouti (piano, Anita Tomasevich Stavrou (piano), Da Liuz (DJ)

22:00/ avatonDistorted part II: experimental / electronics/ audiovisual / party