At fifteen, Cilia Petridou was awarded the Mozart Medal, the highest award in Cyprus, and was hailed as the successor to Gina Bachauer.
The Piano Quartet 'Memories' and the Piano Trio 'Black July 1974' were both written in 1979, five years after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
The song 'Kyrenia' uses the composer's own words to encapsulate the feelings of Greek-Cypriots about the loss of Kyrenia in 1974.
A Steinway Model D Concert Grand piano was used for both the songs (CD1) and chamber music (CD2) recordings on this album.
Cilia Petridou, a Greek-Cypriot pianist/composer, performed her first piano concerto, Mozart's K. 488, at the age of eleven in Nicosia.
Cilia Petridou's performing career ended abruptly in 2002 after major surgery, leading her to focus on composition.
