One final summer concert by Cyprus Symphony Orchestra

One more evening of classical music will charm Nicosia audiences as the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra presents its last concert of the summer period. On June 30 at Skali Amphitheatre in Aglanjia, the Cyprophonia 3 concert will unite orchestra members with the Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra to celebrate the end of the season. Together they will form a fully-fledged symphony orchestra and perform three stunning masterpieces under the baton of the CyYSO Artistic Director Yiorgos Kountouris.

The young, talented members of the youth orchestra will share their enthusiasm and youthful passion with the professional musicians – many of whom are their coaches at the CyYSO Music Academy – offering to the audience an extraordinary and precious showcase of cocreation of the highest calibre.

This production showcases the talents of two highly promising young musicians from the youth orchestra who will perform as soloists. Loucas Demetriou, CyYSO concertmaster, will perform the dazzling Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso by Camille Saint-Saëns, whose mastery combines exquisite melodic lines, emotional depth and plenty of virtuosic display.

Petros Chimonides, CyYSO principal percussionist, will perform Paul Creston’s Concertino for marimba and orchestra (1940), a work with Ravelian flavour, imbued with harmonic and rhythmic elements of jazz and Latin-American music. And then comes the Titan Gustav Mahler’s 1st Symphony, a landmark in the history of the symphonic genre to close off a season of performances!

Cyprophonia 3

Cyprus Symphony Orchestra and the Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra. June 30. Skali Amphitheatre, Aglantzia. 8.30pm. €15. Tel: 22-463144, www.cyso.org.cy