Timbres of Love

YRIART invites you to Timbres of Love, a concert in two parts exploring timbre as a vehicle for emotion, memory and dramatic storytelling.

The first part is devoted to solo piano, with Chris Yonas performing works of expressive intensity and virtuosity: from Scriabin’s mystical introspection to Liszt’s lyrical uplift and Debussy’s vivid imagination.

The second part turns to the voice, with mezzo-soprano Ariadne Mersinias and Dr. Maria Mircheva at the piano. The programme brings theatrical character together with poetic musical expression, from Telemann’s satirical and inventive cantata to the spirited energy of Brahms’s Zigeunerlieder.

An evening in which piano and voice enter into dialogue within a single narrative arc, revealing the inexhaustible shades of love through sound.

Saturday 16 May 2026 · 19:00
Teaching Room, Music Library of the Friends of Music
Athens Concert Hall, Vasilissis Sofias & 1 Kokkali Street, 11521 Athens
Original ticket price: €15
Ticket information: https://www.more.com/gr-el/tickets/music/timbres-of-love

Programme

Part I · Piano
Chris Yonas

Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915)
Prelude & Nocturne for the Left Hand, Op. 9

Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
Liebestraum No. 3 in A-flat major, S. 541/3
Un Sospiro, S. 144/3

Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
L’Isle joyeuse, L. 106

Part II · Voice & piano
Ariadne Mersinias, mezzo-soprano
Maria Mircheva, piano

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767)
Trauer-Music eines kunsterfahrenen Canarienvogels, TWV 20:37

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Zigeunerlieder, Op. 103