Close your eyes
Think of Patmos …
Can you hear the music?

The Patmos Chamber Music Festival

Second Edition
23-27 August 2023

Reservations open on 16 August 2023

With the Adorno Quartet, Alessandra Ammara, Alessandro Carbonare, Silvia Careddu, Angelica Cathariou, Christophe Coin, Michael Guttman, Anush Nikogosyan, Maya Oganyan, Roberto Prosseda, Matteo Rubini, Jing Zhao.

Roberto Prosseda, Artistic Director
Massimo Fino, Executive Director

This festival was born out of the love for the island that hosts it.
Patmos, a place of the soul for so many of us.
Evocative for so many in the way that it stimulates deep thought and contemplation.
Since the 4th century BC there have been places of worship on the island.
A sanctuary to the goddess Diana.
A temple dedicated to Apollo.
The cave that evoked the Apocalypse to John the Theologian.
And of course, the majestic Monastery of St. John,
home to some of the oldest transcripts of the Greek philosophers, including those of Aristotle.

It is in this unique location that we have organized the second edition of the Patmos Chamber Music Festival.
Names are important and certainly the names of Giovanni, Aristotle, Diana, Apollo, Apocalisse
have contributed to attracting some of the world’s most important contemporary musicians.
Jing Zhao, Christophe Coin, Alessandro Carbonare, Silvia Careddu, Roberto Prosseda
and all the others who will accompany us during the days of this festival.
Leading musicians who will bring their professionalism in answer to the magnetic attraction that Patmos has exerted on them.
All of this will unite us all.
Music has never let us down. 

It will be up to us to take care of it during these five days.
It will demand attention, curiosity, participation, indeed, everyone's commitment to follow this art.
An art which uniquely transcends the boundaries of any language and culture to directly stimulate the emotion of the listener,
and through this immense empathy to join musicians and the audience to the emotions that the authors,
in other times and other places, wanted and managed to convey with their creative work.

An exciting journey begins.
A virtuous circle of environment, art, professionalism and passion that will envelop us in that extraordinary feeling that only music can generate. 


Guglielmo Brayda di Soleto
President
Patmos Chamber Music Festival Association APS

  • The Musicians

    Adorno Quartet, string quartet
    Alessandra Ammara, piano
    Alessandro Carbonare, clarinet
    Silvia Careddu, flute
    Angelica Cathariou, mezzo soprano
    Christophe Coin, cello
    Michael Guttman, violin
    Anush Nikogosyan, violin
    Maya Oganyan, piano
    Roberto Prosseda, piano
    Jing Zhao, cello

  • Panagia Diasozousa Square, Chora

    23/8/2023 9:00 PM

    Mozart: Clarinet Quintet K 581 in A major
    Adorno Quartet
    Alessandro Carbonare, clarinet

    Dvorak: String Quartet No. 12 op. 96 in F major “American”
    Adorno Quartet

  • Old School of Chora

    24/8/2023 9:00 PM

    Beethoven: Trio op. 11 in B flat major for clarinet, cello and piano
    Alessandro Carbonare, clarinet; Christophe Coin, cello; Roberto Prosseda, piano

    Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 op. 49 in D minor MWV Q29 (original version for flute, cello and piano)
    Silvia Careddu, flute, Cristophe Coin, cello; Roberto Prosseda, piano

    Schumann; Fantasiestucke Op. 73 for cello and piano
    Christophe Coin, cello; Alessandra Ammara, piano

    Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 op. 8 in B major
    Anush Nikogosyan, violin; Jing Zhao, cello; Alessandra Ammara, piano

  • Old School of Chora

    25/8/2023 9:00 PM

    Mendelssohn: 4 Lieder ohne Worte
    Silvia Careddu, flute; Maya Oganyan, piano

    Weber: Trio op. 63 J 259 in G minor
    Silvia Careddu, flute; Christophe Coin, cello; Roberto Prosseda, piano

    Glass: Duos for violin and cello
    Michael Gutman, violin; Jing Zhao, cello

    Shostakovich: Trio No. 2 op. 67 in E minor
    Michael Guttman, violin; Jing Zhao, cello; Alessandra Ammara, piano

  • East / West Dialogues

    26/8/2023 9:00 PM
    Patmian Cultural Centre

    Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, L 87
    Silvia Careddu, flute, Alessandra Ammara, piano

    Gurdjeff/De Hartmann: Armenian Song, Greek Melody, Ancient Greek Melody
    Maya Oganyan, piano

    Bagdasaryan: Rhapsody (1957) for violin and piano in B minor
    Anush Nikogosyan, violin; Maya Oganyan, piano

    Hatzis: Dance of the Dictators (from “Constantinople”) for piano trio (2003)
    Anush Nikogosyan, violin; Stefano Cerrato, cello; Maya Oganyan, piano

    Rubini: “A beautiful Love” - Two Songs for Nikos Stangos (2023, texts by David Plante) - World Premiere
    Angelica Cathariou, mezzo-soprano, Roberto Prosseda, piano

    IF YOU WERE TO HERE
    If you were to hear, my love, if you were to see,
    What music, what sight, would delight you?
    You liked the piano played solo,
    You liked a sea view past an open door.
    So, let the piano play as the sun rises from the sea,
    You standing by the open door and looking out.
    Let the simplest appeal be the basic of what’s grand
    Of what lasts and lasts, and is eternal, or almost so,
    As the long piano notes are, or almost so,
    And, almost so, the rising sunlight on the sea

    RESTORE THE TEMPLE
    Restore the temple, make it grand,
    Restore the gold God and the singers
    And the dancers, restore all more grandly
    Than before, and let sunlight
    Cast shadows of columns on the marble floor

    Khachaturian: Song-Poem in honor of Ashiks
    Anush Nikogosyan, violin; Maya Oganyan, piano

    Mitropoulos: Kassiani, for mezzo-soprano and piano
    Angelica Cathariou, mezzo-soprano; Maya Oganyan, piano

    Mansurian: Agnus Dei
    Anush Nikogosyan, violin; Christophe Coin, cello; Alessandro Carbonare, clarinet; Maya Oganyan, piano

  • Patmian Cultural Centre

    27/8/2023 9:00 PM

    Pärt: Fratres for violin and piano (1977-80)
    Michael Guttman, violin; Roberto Prosseda, piano

    Dvorak: Piano Quintet no. 2 op. 81 in A major
    Adorno Quartet; Maya Oganyan, piano

    Mendelssohn: Concerto for violin, piano and strings MWV O4 in D minor (1823)
    Anush Nikogosyan, violin; Roberto Prosseda, piano; Adorno Quartet