Music for Cyprus: for violin or oboe, soprano saxophone, and piano

Abstract

Music for Cyprus was written at the suggestion of the eminent saxophonist Yiannis Miralis for a concert of my works at the Cyprus University in Nicosia, Cyprus on April 4, 2005.The work is dedicated to the Honorable Ambassador of Cyprus to U.S.A. Euripides L. Evriviades who gave me the idea of using folk tunes from Cyprus for my composition. Written for violin or oboe, soprano saxophone, and piano, Music for Cyprus employs three folk tunes from Cyprus and is the first work of my projected “Series for Cyprus.”