ANDREAS TSIARTAS
composer
National Opera of Greece – commissioning programme
One of the 8 active participants selected as part of the composition commissioning programme of the National Opera of Greece, to write 2 new works for the Opera’s musicians and singers for October 2025.
Date: September 2024- October 2025
Venue: Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre
Threnodia for solo cello - world premiere
Commissioned by the 23rd International Pharos Chamber Music Festival
World premiere by:
Alexander Chaushian, cello
101 Contemporary Composers
You Should Know
Andreas Tsiartas is featured in Maurizio Colasanti's 101 Compositori Contemporanei che non potete non conoscere (101 contemporary composers you should know), edited by Giacovelli editions, Italy, April 2024.
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German Records Award
Sarah Aristidou's album Enigma (released by Alpha Classics), featuring Andreas Tsiartas' Lamento Turco was awarded the
German Records Award
in the category Solo Voice recital
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Recording released!!!
Andreas Tsiartas' Lamento Turco is featured on soprano Sarah Aristidou's album Enigma, released by Alpha Classics
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Works published by BabelScores
Andreas Tsiartas is the first Cypriot composer to have been selected to be published by BabelScores
A significant selection of his works / parts can now be purchased online at a reasonable price.
Void course - a miniature for piano solo
World premiere by:
Lorenda Ramou, piano
Date: 20 May 2023
Venue: Cultural Centre of the European University Cyprus
CD Release!!!
Andreas Tsiartas' Ìérkos (2019/20) is released on CD by the Stradivarius label (STR 37181, Italy)
Cikada Ensemble
Conductor: Christian Eggen
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Ìérkos for ensemble
Ensemble U:
Date: 08 December 2020
Venue: Eesti Raadio 1. Stuudio (Estonian Radio 1st Studio), Tallinn, Estonia.
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First Winner of the DYCE Competition
Andreas Tsiartas' PNOÉ for chamber ensemble is the winner of the Blue Region, and one of the four first overall winners of the DYCE Competition. It was performed in the final round by the Cikada Ensemble under the baton of Christian Eggen.
Date: 03 May 2019
Venue: Sentralen, Oslo, Norway
PNOÉ in the finals of the DYCE Competition
PNOÉ for chamber ensemble is selected amongst the 12 winners, out of 143 applications, of the DYCE Competition. The work is to be performed in the final convention, by the Cikada ensemble on 28 April 2019, in Oslo's Sentralen.
Date: 28 April 2019
Venue: Sentralen, Oslo, Norway
PNOÉ for chamber ensemble - world premiere
Commissioned by the 10th International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival
World Premiere:
Ensemble Modern
Date: 05 October 2018
Venue: The Shoe Factory, Nicosia, Cyprus
Dhákara for violin, tarhu, percussion and oud
Lingua Franca Ensemble
Date: 13 October 2017
Venue: The Shoe Factory, Nicosia, Cyprus
World Premiere performance by Lingua Franca Ensemble. Commissioned by the 9th International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival.
Memory and Oblivion
Pre-Concert Lecture on Beat Furrer's Lotofagos I
Date: 09 October 2016
Venue: The Shoe Factory, Nicosia, Cyprus
Lecture: "Memory and Oblivion – Psychological and Musical aspects on Beat Furrer’s Lotófagos I". To introduce the Cyprus Premiere of Furrer's Lotofagos by Uli Fussenegger & Hélène Fauchère, as part of the 8th International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival.