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
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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, clarinetDvorak: 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, pianoMendelssohn: 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, pianoSchumann; Fantasiestucke Op. 73 for cello and piano
Christophe Coin, cello; Alessandra Ammara, pianoBrahms: 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, pianoWeber: Trio op. 63 J 259 in G minor
Silvia Careddu, flute; Christophe Coin, cello; Roberto Prosseda, pianoGlass: Duos for violin and cello
Michael Gutman, violin; Jing Zhao, celloShostakovich: 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 CentreDebussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, L 87
Silvia Careddu, flute, Alessandra Ammara, pianoGurdjeff/De Hartmann: Armenian Song, Greek Melody, Ancient Greek Melody
Maya Oganyan, pianoBagdasaryan: Rhapsody (1957) for violin and piano in B minor
Anush Nikogosyan, violin; Maya Oganyan, pianoHatzis: Dance of the Dictators (from “Constantinople”) for piano trio (2003)
Anush Nikogosyan, violin; Stefano Cerrato, cello; Maya Oganyan, pianoRubini: “A beautiful Love” - Two Songs for Nikos Stangos (2023, texts by David Plante) - World Premiere
Angelica Cathariou, mezzo-soprano, Roberto Prosseda, pianoIF 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 seaRESTORE 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 floorKhachaturian: Song-Poem in honor of Ashiks
Anush Nikogosyan, violin; Maya Oganyan, pianoMitropoulos: Kassiani, for mezzo-soprano and piano
Angelica Cathariou, mezzo-soprano; Maya Oganyan, pianoMansurian: 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, pianoDvorak: Piano Quintet no. 2 op. 81 in A major
Adorno Quartet; Maya Oganyan, pianoMendelssohn: Concerto for violin, piano and strings MWV O4 in D minor (1823)
Anush Nikogosyan, violin; Roberto Prosseda, piano; Adorno Quartet