ANDREAS TSIARTAS
composer
We have all forgotten, for ensemble
​USA premiere by:
Talea Ensemble
Date: 28 March 2025
Venue: DiMenna Center for Classical Music in NY
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We have all forgotten, for ensemble
Commissioned by the Pharos Arts Foundation as part of the 15th International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival
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World premiere by:
Talea Ensemble
Date: 2 October 2024
Venue: The Shoe Factory, Nicosia
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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
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An old Cypriot Amulet for clarinet and piano - world premiere
Premiered at the ClarinetFest® 2024 organised by the Internation Clarinet Association
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World premiere by:
George Georgiou, clarinet
Rami Sarieddine, piano
Date: 21 July - 4 August 2024
Venue: Dublin Convention Centre, Ireland
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Threnodia for solo cello - world premiere
Commissioned by the 23rd International Pharos Chamber Music Festival
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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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Link to purchase from the editor's website
Link to purchase from Amazon
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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Link to purchase the CD
Recording released!!!
Andreas Tsiartas' Lamento Turco is featured on soprano Sarah Aristidou's album Enigma, released by Alpha Classics
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Link to purchase the CD
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
Septiphobie for large ensemble
Watch the video recording of Septiphobie
Commissioned and premiered by Ensemble intercontemporain in March 2022
Date: 12 March 2022
Venue: Philharmonie de Paris, France
Septiphobie for large ensemble - world premiere
World premiere/ commissioned by:
Ensemble intercontemporain
Conductor: Simon Proust
Date: 12 March 2022
Venue: Philharmonie de Paris, France
CD Release!!!
Andreas Tsiartas' Ìérkos (2019/20) is released on CD by the Stradivarius label (STR 37181, Italy)
Cikada Ensemble
Conductor: Christian Eggen
Link to purchase the CD
Ìérkos for ensemble
Divertimento Ensemble
Conductor: Sandro Gorli
Date: 12 December 2020
Venue: Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy
Ìérkos for ensemble
Ensemble U:
Date: 08 December 2020
Venue: Eesti Raadio 1. Stuudio (Estonian Radio 1st Studio), Tallinn, Estonia.
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Link to the live broadcast
Ìérkos for ensemble
Cikada Ensemble
Conductor: Christian Eggen
Date: 04 December 2020
Venue: Sentralen, Oslo, Norway
Ìérkos for ensemble
Ensemble Taller Sonoro
Date: 30 November 2020 (Premiere)
Venue: Espacio Turina, Sala Silvio, Sevilla, Spain
Lamento Turco for Solo Soprano
Karera Fujita
Date: 29 March 2020 / 18:00
Venue: Sainte-Aurélie, Strasbourg, France
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
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Lamento Turco for Solo Soprano
Karera Fujita
Date: 08 March 2020 / 18:00
Venue: Friedenskirche Ludwigsburg, Germany
Lamento Turco for Solo Soprano
Karera Fujita
Date: 01 March 2020 / 18:00
Venue: Hospitalkirche, Stuttgart, Germany
String quartet No.2, Àtractos
Cuarteto Abreu
Date: 17 December 2019
Venue: La Scène nationale d'Orléans, France
Lamento Turco for Solo Soprano
Johanna Vargas
Date: 18 November 2018
Venue: Hospitalkirche, Stuttgart, Germany
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​
String quartet No.2, Àtractos
Selected composer at the Quatuor Diotima Academy in France.
Date: 22-29 April 2019
Venue: L’ Abbaye de Noirlac, France ​
Peter Eötvös Foundation
In the finalists of the Mentoring Programme
Date: 05 April 2019
Venue: Budapest, Hungary
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Selected as one of the 8 finalists for the Peter Eötvös Foundation Composers’ Mentoring Programme 2020.
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
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Memory & Rite: Re-defining Sound and Identity
Speaker in the Sound Agendas Composers’ Conference Centre for New Music at Sheffield (CeNMaS) at the University of Sheffield.
Lecture:
"Memory and Rite: Re-defining Sound and Identity"
Date: 29 April 2018
Venue: University of Sheffield, UK​
Dhákara for violin, tarhu, percussion and oud
Lingua Franca Ensemble
Date: 13 October 2017
Venue: The Shoe Factory, Nicosia, Cyprus
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World Premiere performance by Lingua Franca Ensemble. Commissioned by the 9th International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival.
Lamento Turco for Solo Soprano
Johanna Vargas
Date: 18 May 2017
Venue: "Nach der Freiheit" Stiftskirche, Stuttgart, Germany
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World Premiere performance.
Artistic Direction: Angelika Luz
Archaic Spaces I for 5 vocalists
Neue Vocalsolisten
Date: 18 November 2016
Venue: Pallas Theater, Nicosia, Cyprus
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World Premiere performance.
Cypriot Composers Festival for New Music
Memory and Oblivion
Pre-Concert Lecture on Beat Furrer's Lotofagos I
Date: 09 October 2016
Venue: The Shoe Factory, Nicosia, Cyprus
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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.
Ay-wahda-joru for Orchestra
Cyprus Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Christina Athinodorou
Date: 4-6 December 2015
Venue: Nicosia - Limassol - Paphos, Cyprus
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World Premiere performance.
Pallas Theater, Nicosia. Rialto Theatre, Limassol. Markideio Municipal Theatre, Paphos.
Taqsimi on an Armenian lamento
Ergon Ensemble
Date: 12 November 2015
Venue: The Shoe Factory, Nicosia, Cyprus
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World Premiere performance.
As part of the "In Tempore Belli" project.
Klithy... Méné... Elektris for Solo Piano
Hayk Melikyan (piano)
Date: 25 January 2015
Venue: Cafesjian Center for the Arts, Yerevan, Armenia
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Armenian Premiere performance.
Hyacinthus for Violin and Violoncello
Ensemble Courage
Date: 21 January 2015
Venue: Kästner-Museum, Dresden, Germany
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