Cyprus Festival with Scala Quartet, Giordano and Calzi

An all-Italian idea, that of Minthis Music Festival in Cyprus whose first edition will open on July 9th to conclude, after a short but intense program, the 13th of the same month. Conceived by the Italian tenor Massimo Giordano, who is also the artistic director and one of the interpreters, the festival will host the String Quartet of the Scala, the pianist Nelson Calzi, assistant maestro of the same Milanese theatre, in addition to the violinist Niklas Liepe, the cellist Raphaela Gromes, and Pablo Sainz-Villegas, the first guitarist after several decades of collaborating with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Also on the program is an evening dedicated to the film music with Rachel Mary Berkeley Portman, the British composer, first woman to win an award Oscar for best soundtrack for the film "Emma" by Douglas McGrath: the music is his, as well as many others films, including for "Chocolat". The Minthis Music Festival is born after two concerts last year in the Minthis arena Resort in the Cypriot wine region of Paphos: hence the idea to stabilize the initiative of a festival in the same "bonbonniere" outdoors, in front of a Mediterranean panorama breathtaking. "Cyprus - explains Giordano - is a strongly marked by the interest in classical music, both on the part of Cypriot public, both from the large resident English communities, Russian, Ukrainian and Israeli".