From Rodrigo to Ponce

The Pharos Arts Foundation, with the support of the Embassy of Spain and the Cervantes Institute in Cyprus, will present a guitar recital with first prize winner of the International Sevilla Guitar Competition in 2015 Antoine Moriniere on Sunday.

For the recital at the Shoe Factory in Nicosia, Moriniere will perform Joaquin Rodrigo’s Invocación y danza Homenaje a Manuel de Falla, Manuel Maria Ponce’s Sonata romantica, Fantaisie Dramatique, Op.31 Le Départ – Le Retour by Napoleon Coste and Sonata for Guitar, Op.47 by Alberto Ginastera.

Moriniere started playing the guitar at the age of eight. He subsequently studied with Jean Luc Rochietti and Olivier Chassain at the Conservatory of Bordeaux, where he graduated with honours, and he continued his studies at the Paris Conservatory under the guidance of Jeremy Jouve.

Apart from the coveted Sevilla Competition Prize, Moriniere has won a number of international guitar competitions, including the First Prize at the International Guitar Competition Olzstyn in Poland, the First Prize at the Leopold Bella Competition in Paris, the First Prize at the Ville d’Antony Guitar Competition in France, the First Prize at the Forum Gitarre Wien, the Second Prize at the Jose Tomas Guitar Competition, to name but a few. As part of the Sevilla Competition Prize, Antoine recorded a CD in June 2016 with Contrastes Records.

Moriniere’s career as a concert artist began in 2010 when he performed the Piazzolla Guitar Concerto with the Conservatoire de Bordeaux Orchestra. He has since performed all over

Europe and he has collaborated with a number of renowned chamber musicians such as clarinettist Raphael Severe, mezzo-soprano Aude Extremo and guitarist Thibaut Garcia. Antoine has always been interested in contemporary music and he has been on the search for a new repertoire.

During his tour in Spain in November 2012 he gave the world premiere of Madoromi and Perpetuum Mobile, which were composed and dedicated to him by composer Rikako Watanabe (composition professor at the Conservatoire Superieur de Musique de Paris), as well as Obscurs for Guitar and Clarinet, which was dedicated to him by the celebrated clarinettist Raphael Severe. In 2017, the guitar player will give the world premiere of a new work for piano, clarinet and two guitars, composed by Jean Frederic Neuburger.

Antoine Moriniere
Guitar recital presented by the Pharos Arts foundation. December 11. The Shoe Factory, Nicosia. 8.30pm. €15/10. Tel: 22-663871

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