Piano Recital by Martino Tirimo

We are delighted to announce our upcoming recital featuring the world famous pianist Martino Tirmo. The recital will take place at the Archontiko Technon (ARTE) on Friday, 4 April 2014 at 20:30.

The ‘Friends of ARTE Society’ is a non profit cultural organisation that promotes several events in order to give a new prospective into the cultural scene of Cyprus. The society gives opportunities to several young artists (painters, musicians, actors etc) to present their work and also combines together different genres bringing together all different forms of Art. So far, it has hosted some very important personalities such as the pianist Martino Tirimo and the poet Thomas Transtromer.

The programme for this concert will be:
F. Schubert: Sonata in A major D959
F. Chopin: 2 Nocturnes Op.55
3 Waltzes Op.34
Ballade No.4 in F minor Op.52

Admission for the concert is €10 and €7 for concessions. For reservations or further information please contact us on 99355358 or [email protected].

Martino Tirimo is a world-renowned artist whose career started early. From age eight he was performing Concertos and at twelve conducted seven complete performances of ‘La Traviata’, with soloists from La Scala, Milan. After studies in London and Vienna, victories at the international competitions in Munich and Geneva launched his international career.

In 2010 alone, he gave 100 concerts including the complete works of Chopin at London’s Kings Place, described by critics as ‘a colossal feat’. He has performed all over the world with most top orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, Dresden Staatskapelle, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Cleveland Orchestra, London Symphony, Philharmonia and numerous others and has worked with conductors including Barbirolli, Boult, Klee, Marriner, Masur, Norrington, Rattle and Kurt Sanderling.

He has made over 50 recordings for EMI, BMG and other companies including the complete works of Mozart, Beethoven, Debussy, Janacek, Schubert’s 21 Sonatas and the Concertos of Brahms, Chopin, Rachmaninov and Tippett (with composer conducting). In 1995 he won a Gold Disc for his Rachmaninov Concerto 2 and ‘Paganini’ Rhapsody, one of EMI’s best-sellers.

As conductor he worked closely with the Dresden Philharmonic over many years, and also worked with orchestras like the English Chamber, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and Prague Chamber. His compositions include the film score for the ‘Odyssey’. Since 2002 he has been more active in chamber music, touring extensively with his Trio, the Rosamunde. He also works with talented young pianists and 12 of his students have won first prizes at international competitions.
His enormous repertoire embraces 80 Concertos and nearly the entire solo works of the great composers. In September 2011 he was awarded the Nemitsas Foundation Prize for Excellence in the Arts and Sciences. At present he is recording the complete works of Chopin at the Leipzig Gewandhaus.

The Daily Telegraph characterised him as ‘a pianist of vision’ and ‘an inspiring poet of the piano’. In April 2013, after a performance of Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Concerto at London’s Barbican with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Musical Opinion described him as ‘a true giant of the keyboard’.

A frequent performer at international festivals, in 2004 he performed at the Athens Festival during the Olympic period with the Vienna Philharmonic, at the Herodus Atticus amphitheatre, and prior to the Games had the honour to run with the Olympic torch, perhaps the first classical musician to do so.

Music and Vision has declared that ‘Tirimo’s playing belongs to a past generation of ‘greats’. Listening to him I conjure up aural images of Solomon, Arrau, Kempff, Serkin, Schnabel, Backhaus and Rubinstein. Throughout the evening one was consistently aware that this supreme musician placed himself entirely at the service of the composer’.