Guitar Recital with Timotheos Stylianides

The Pharos Arts Foundation, as part of its Cyprus Artists Series, presents a recital with the exciting young guitarist Timotheos Stylianides in an all Spanish programme on Thursday 13 October 2011, The Shoe Factory, Nicosia / 8.30pm.

Timotheos Stylianides was born in Cyprus in 1982 and took his first guitar lessons at the age of eleven. In 2002 he commenced his studies at the University of Hull in Great Britain where he focused on Performance, Composition, Orchestration and Psychology of Music. At the same time he studied the guitar under the guidance of Tom McKinney and Graig Ogden. He then followed postgraduate studies at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama where he furthered his guitar studies with Eleftheria Kotzia and John Mills. He graduated with an MMus in Performace. Timotheos Stylianides continued his studies in guitar at the Real C?servatorio Superior de Musica de Madrid in Spain where he was taught by Jose Luis Rodrigo. Stylianides participated in various festivals, seminars and master-classes in which he took advice from many accomplished artists including Leo Brouwer, David Russel, Dusan Bogdanovic, Carlo Marchione, Aniello Desiderio and Zoran Dukic. In 2006, Stylianides was awarded the John Mills Guitar Prize. He has appeared in concerts throughout Croatia, Germany, Serbia, Spain and the UK. Alongside his performance career, Timotheos Stylianides is teaching guitar at the European University of Cyprus.

Programme:

Manuel De Falla (1876 ? 1946)
Homenaje (1920)
Homage pour le Tombeau de Claude Debussy

Miguel Llobet (1878 ? 1938)
Dos Canciones Populares Catalanas
El testament d'Amelia
Canço del lladre

Joaquin Turina (1882 ? 1949)
Sonata for guitar in D minor, Op. 61 (1931)
Allegro
Andante
Allegro Vivo

Dionisio Aguado (1784 ? 1849)
Rondo in A minor Op. 2 No. 2 (1825)
Andante
Allegro moderato

Joaquin Rodrigo (1901 ? 1999)
Tres Piezas Españolas
Fandango: Allegretto
Passacaglia: Andante
Zapateado: Allegro

Nikita Koshkin (b. 1956)
Usher Valse Op. 29 (1984)

Miguel Trillo-Figueroa (b. 1978)
Yawar

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