The Brazilian young pianist Pablo Rossi won the Young Performer Piano Competition in Lages/Santa Catarina at the age of seven. He was taught by the renowned Russian pianist Olga Kiun, and later, at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, he became a student of Elisso Virsaladze. Rossi has been first-prize winner of major national competitions in Brazil, including the First Nelson Freire National Competition for New Brazilian Talents in 2003. He also won the International Piano Competitions in Cordoba, Argentina (2001), and the Perfecto Garcia Chornet International Piano Competition in Valencia, Spain (2002). He has collaborated with a number of distinguished orchestras and conductors, such as the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra under Roberto Minczuck, the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra under Anton Nanut, the Symphony Orchestras of Paraná, Santa Catarina and Salvador, as well as  the Soloist Chamber Orchestra of Londrina and Antique Camerate of Paraná. He has participated in numerous festivals in Brazil and Argentina, and ever since his first concert for “The Keyboard Trust” in London, he has given recitals in the United States, Italy, Germany, Italy and Spain. His first CD, recorded at the age of eleven, includes works by Bartók, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich and Nepomuceno. For his recital in Cyprus, Pablo Rossi will perform works by Schumann, Chopin and Beethoven.

*** You can watch a short demonstration by Pablo Rossi  on 25  October 2008, at the Municipal Arts Centre in Nicosia, at 8.00 pm,  as part of the Pharos Trust’s Tenth Anniversary Celebrations.

Ticket Prices:

Adults: €20

Friends and Supporters of the Pharos Trust : €17

Concessions : €12


Tickets can be purchased from:

The Pharos Trust (22 663 871),

Moufflon bookshop (22 665 155),

Soloneion bookshop (22 666 799)