PROGRAM

1 . Sergei RachmaninoffTrio No1 in D Minor, Op.9, élégiaque

2. Antonín DvořákPiano Trio No. 4 in E Minor, Op.90 / "Dumky Trio"

3. Dmitri ShostakovichPiano Trio No2 in E Minor, Op.67

C ollapse is a visual concert which aims to make coexist a projection of acombination of video art and animated film with the live performance of

classical music. The Trio Dell'Arte, a classical chamber ensemble, collaborates withthe Cypriot video artists Nicolas Iordanou and Sylvia Nicolaides and the animatorCharalambos Margaritis to create a renovating proposal of artistic expressionwhich is based on the balance of sound and image.The enrichment of the concert space with projections which are invited toaccompany and converse with the music, a ims to give to the viewers a twofold andmore vivid interpretation of each musical composition. I t attempts to become awholesome experience for the viewer.The objective is not the descriptive illustration of the musical compositions, butthe rendition of instantaneous impressions that meet in a singular and at thesame time infinite present.

T hree screens, composed by threelayers of semi-transparent cloth are

set behind the musicians.Three musicians, three instrumentsinterpetating three chamber musiccompositions.Three visual artists create three filmswhich combine video art and animatedfilm. They interprete visually, in theirturn, the three musical pieces.

C ollapse is, before all, a triptych. Yet the harmoniouscomposition of the three is constantly threatened

and inevitably broken by the internal inconsistencyof the paradigm upon which it is set. The musicalpieces do not evolve in three movements andthe visual references are set upon the fourelements of nature. The pretention ofharmony cannot hold.The mathematical perfection of thetrinity is undermined by theseelements reminding us of itsfallacy. I t collapses and themusic becomes an elegy and adithyrambe at the same time, aresounding wind through theruins.

"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!Nothing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal Wreck, boundless and bareThe lone and level sands stretch far away"Percy Bysshe Shelley

Collapse / A Visual Concert (full concert) 77'Collapse / A Visual Concert (short version) 6'

The Collapse Prints

T he intention behind Collapse was to offer a unique aesthetic experience to the audience. To attent a presentationof Collapse is a unique musical and visual experience. I t is about entering into a universe of music and images that

alters one's understanding of the way these arts are proposed and perceived.To complete this, two orig inal woodcuts where created by Charalambos Margaritis, in a limited number of prints andwere put on sale as a memorabilia of the event. This helped as well fund the event which is completely independentlyproduced.

The Collapse Prints

Trio Dell'Arte

www.triodellarte.com

O riginally from Savoie, Emilie Moutin begunher musical studies in Lyon Region National

Conservatory. Versatile and complexmusician,continued her educational program inParis where she received prizes (Diplomas) forPiano, Chamber Music and Piano-accompanimentwith the best honors, following particularly theguidance of Stephen Paulello in Paris and IrinaKataeva in Evry.She studied with pianists Françoise Tillard,YvesHenry from which she was introduced to the chantaccompaniment sensibility.In-between, she enteredto the Conservatoire National Superieur deMusique in Paris, where she obtains brilliantlyprizes of Music Analysis, Musical Culture andMusical Writing.As piano soloist,she recently performed theConcerto in G major by Joseph Haydn and the firstballad of Chopin in the musical show "ZielenStanislas, who wanted the Green sun"; She is amember of the Trio dell'Arte who they performregularly every year in Europe.Her eager to share her passion for classical music toas many people as she can, Emilie is designing andperforming educational concerts for youngaudiences with collaboration with variouscompanies (Chanthéâtre Company, Readingotherwise Chevrefeuille, Thalia Company, andothers)Piano accompanist of Roissy singing class in France,and very experienced working with singers, sherecently discovered a passion for choral conductingand now shares between her piano activity andchoirmaster while parallel teaching piano.

Emilie Moutin

B orn in 1 965 in Rouen in a musicians family, FrédéricDupuis started the cello at the age of seven. After his

tuition in Rouen Region Conservatory (with A. Bane) and inNational Boulogne-Billancourt Conservatory region (with Mr.Strauss ) , he entered the Conservatoire National Superieur deMusique in Paris in the class P. Muller, and won a first prize incello and chamber music.Since 1 991 , Frédéric Dupuis is principal cellist of the OrchestreNational d ' I le de France. At the same time, it g ives manychamber music concerts in the most varied formations.In the “String Trio of Paris”, he meets today's composers whoseworks he created with as much pleasure as he interprets theclassical repertoire, regularly covered with “Dimitri quartet”. Heappears as soloist with the most prestig ious conductors of todayand he has performed among them concertos by Saint-Saëns,Schumann, Honegger, Greif, Haydn and others.Recently, Frédéric Dupuis has made several recordings forBayard Music, the Quartet for the End of Time of OlivierMessiaen, a recital for cello and harp and also he recorded threestring trios Edith Canat of Chizy under the label HarmoniaMundi. All his recordings had an excellent critical acclaim.

Frédéric Dupuis

C hrysostomos Neophytou was born on the 21 st of September 1 981 in Paphos.At the age if 1 5 he got his diploma grade 8 of the Royal College of Music

with Andreas Nicolaou as his professor.In 2001 he moves to Paris, where he studies at the National Conservatoriumunder the guidance of two exceptional professors of violin, Mrs Marie JoCalvi and Mr. Pierre Olivier Queyras. He receives two diplomas of musicalstudies, one in violin and the other in chamber music. In Paris he teachesstudents of various levels while at the same time he takes part inconcerts. He has taken part as a solist and 1 st violin in various concertswith the orchestra of the National Conservatorium of Music and Danceof Argenteuil. Through his concerts he develops a special interest incontemporary music. This leads his to the beginning of a series ofcollaborations with many conductors, like Ivan Bellocq.In 201 0 he moves to London, where he graduates in 201 1 with theMasters of Arts in Violin Performance and Administration ofMusic from the Royal Academy of Music. There, he takes part invarious concerts, he organises various festivals withinternational participations. He has taken part in variousconerts in Mexico, with the first world premiere of Ivan Bellocq‘Six Forests’ for violin and piano.

Chrysostomos Neofytou

Kimonos Art Center'screw

www.kimonosartcenter.com

N icolas Iordanou was born in 1 975in Paphos, Cyprus. He studied

Photography at Columbia College Chicago.In 2000 he was assigned as a photographerin ‘CITY2000’ (Chicago in the Year 2000) aproject about the social and cultural aspects ofChicago, which was exhibited at the Museum ofScience and Industry of Chicago in 2001 . From 2001until 2006 he worked as a photographer, dealingwith conflict and postwar photography inAfghanistan, Pakistan, I ran, Palestine/Israel, Uganda,Lebanon and also covered the September 1 1 attacks inNew York City. He collaborates pro bono with the UnitedNations (UNHCR).In 2005 he was invited by the Goethe Institut as a reviewerin the 1 st Photography Festival of Berlin. In 2007, he wasassigned to photograph an international project called‘Challenging Walls’ in collaboration with Akademie der Künste –Berlin and Sibylle Bergmann, whose goal was to bring conflictedcommunities closer. This project was exhibited in Abu Dis, I srael/Palestine. In 2009 he had his first solo exhibition titled ‘Prologue’ in"Diatopos" in Nicosia. In 201 2 he co-directs the short film 'About Us' . In 201 3he participates in the exhibition ‘Catharsis/Rebirth’ in Paphos, Cyprus and co-directs a short film presentation from it, which was selected and presented inthe Louvre Museum in Paris as part of the Michelangelo Pistoletto’s exhibition‘Annee Un – Le Paradis Sur Terre’. In 201 4 he co-directs the mockumentary'Salvador' and in 201 5 the documentary ‘Cementography’.

Nicolas Iordanou

B orn in 1 984, Sylvia Nicolaides orig inally trained ineducation focusing on the visual arts and received a

Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Cyprus and a Master’s Degree fromthe University of Exeter in the UK. In 201 0 she received her Bachelor’s Fine Arts Degreefrom Chelsea College of Art and Design (University of the Arts) London and her second Master’sDegree in Audio-Visual Studies in the Academy of Performing Arts, in the Film and Television department(FAMU) in Prague, Czech Republic.She participated in several group art exhibitions and her films were screened at several film festivals both in Cyprus andinternationally. In 201 1 she was short-listed at the Façade Video Festival in Plovdiv Bulgaria. In 201 3 she participated in theexhibition ‘Catharsis/Rebirth’ in Paphos, Cyprus and co-directed a short film presentation from it, which was selected and presentedin the Louvre Museum in Paris as part of the Michelangelo Pistoletto’s exhibition ‘Annee Un – Le Paradis Sur Terre’. In 201 4 she directedthe 3D video art ‘Airground’ which was premiered at the 3D Korea Film Festival in Seoul and awarded with the Jury's Special Prize. In the sameyear she co-directed the award wining mockumentary 'Salvador' and in 201 5 the documentary ‘Cementography’ a three-year project.

Sylvia Nicolaides

Charalambos Margaritis

C haralambos Margaritis was born in 1 985 in Cyprus. He graduated from the EcoleNationale Superieure de Beaux Arts de Paris in 201 2. He works mainly with stop

motion animated films, woodcuts and drawings.From 2009 – 201 4 he was accepted in the 1 4th, 1 5th and 1 6th International Biennale ofEngraving of Sarcelles. He presented his solo exhibition in 201 1 titled ‘Caetera’ in theÉcole Nationale Supérieure de Beaux Arts of Paris.In 201 4 he developed a stop-motion animation workshop in the Studio 1 3/1 6 in the CentrePompidou (as a part of the event Stopmotion, organized by Boris Tissot) . In the same yearhe participated in the group exhibition titled ‘Othello – Rebirth’ in the abandonedcinema ‘Othellos’ in Paphos, following the proposition of the Rebirth day concept byMichelangelo Pistoletto.H is short animated films "Workhouse" (201 2) and "Large Scale Absurdities / Vol. 1 " (201 5)have participated and received awards in several festivals around the world.In 201 5 he participates in the concert "Trio Dell'Arte" by the classical music ensemble TrioDell'Arte, which was presented in Nicosia , Limassol and Paphos, with three shortanimated films which were projected at the same time as the live performance by themusicians.

Collapse

R egimes, world economy, computer systems, and build ings (especially their walls) are somethings (let’s call them this way) which face the threat of collapse.

The same, as we know, stands for our civilisation, and life on planet Earth. The same stands for humanbeings.Music, in various northern mythologies, is considered to be the beginning of everything, the firstcause for the creation of our world.Creation is not the opposite of collapse: creation is collapse’s other. Inside their prolific Difference,sounds and images are being freed. The space, or the area where the work of art is founded, is calledPossibility.The work “Collapse”, as a visual concert is a venture of occupancy in Possibility; it’s a gesture of goingdeeper in the prolific essence of Difference; and it’s an attempt of widening our commonContinuance.Possibility / Difference / Continuance: the work of art’s time and space is a continuing, even eternalpresent: Here & Now, which means: Always.A single Moment.Music is not a soundtrack for the images, and the images are not an illustration for the music. Thevisual concert equals a discussion, and a balance. The priority belongs to the unseen third factor: theRelationship.The work “Collapse” is not the product of this relationship between music and images: it’s the work asthe revelation of the Relationship in progress, which finally means that the Work of art is theRelationship itself.We must think of Love, or, to be more accurate: Eros, who used to live in that fluid area of difference,between Porus (meaning: wealth) and Penia (meaning: poverty) , his parents. Always in the middle.Always, in between.The visual concert “Collapse” is a work of art set in these borderlines. And borderlines are always aminefield , a dangerous and threatening place. The visual concert “Collapse” faces the threat ofcollapse.That’s OK, since love is a risky game.And so it goes.