Healing Music: World Doctors Orchestra to Perform in Armenia

An orchestra made up of medical professionals will perform a charity concert in Yerevan Sunday (January 17).

A group of 80 musicians-physicians, representing the World Doctors Orchestra arrived this week, most coming to Armenia for the first time.

Founded in 2007 by Stefan Wilich, Professor of Medicine at the Charite University Medical Center in Berlin, Germany, the orchestra exists “to make medical care more accessible and develop medical policy throughout the world through music,” according to its founder.

Wilich created the orchestra by placing announcements in medical journals and on the internet (www.world-doctors-orchestra.org). Currently the orchestra has some 400 members in 20 countries.  Read more... (310 words)

Great Master of ‘Living Voice’: President Sends Condolences to Garanyan Family

On the occasion of the demise of the renowned musician Georgi Garanian, President Serzh Sargsyan and Mrs. Rita Sargsyan sent a letter of condolences to the Garanian family.
The letter reads:

“We were greatly saddened by the news of the untimely demise of the People’s Artist of Russia, composer and conductor Georgi Aram Garanian. We lost a great saxophonist and composer whose pieces of music have their unique place in the treasury of the world jazz and pop music.

Our great compatriot was always performing with a special delight on the Armenian stage. His last performance in Yerevan, conducted in the framework of the Armenian Jazz-70 Festival, is unforgettable.  Read more... (143 words)

Yerevan to Host Concert Dedicated to Gohar Gasparyan’s 85th Birth Anniversary

A concert dedicated to soprano Gohar Gasparyan’s 85th birth anniversary will take place on Tuesday, December 22 in Yerevan. Concert organizers are the National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre after Alexander Spendiaryan and Armenia’s Ministry of Culture.

“The concert program includes performances by the prominent singer’s best students and soloists from the National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre (David Babayan, Narine Yeghyan. Sofia Sayadyan, Hovhannes Ayvazyan, Armenuhi Seyrabyan etc.), as well as laureates of the contest in memory of Gohar Gasparyan. The audience will listen to works by Armenian and foreign composers,” Lena Levonyan, Head of Soloists’ Department at National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.  Read more... (212 words)

Yerevan to Host Concert Dedicated to Arpine Kalinina’s Works

On Sunday, December 20, Yeghishe Charents’ House-Museum will host a concert dedicated to young composer Arpine Kalinina’s works. The young composer’s musical pieces will be performed by Arakel Magakyan (violoncello), Lusine Hautyunyan (violin), Anush Nazaryan (vocal), Sergey Chalakhyan (saxophone) as well as Kalinina herself.

After Komitas’ music, the audience will have the chance to listen to romances based on Charents and Tumanyan’s poems, as well as a ballade based on Sona Van’s poem titled “What’s up with me?”

The concert program also includes a saxophone and piano trio based on Charents’ poem “For you all the warmth that is in my heart” and a trio violin and violoncello concert based on Charents’ «Tagharan» poem.  Read more... (199 words)

International Music Festival in Yerevan

Third International Music Festival held at Komitas Chamber Music Hall in Yerevan will present a chamber music concert on October 22 with the participation of Armenian and foreign renowned musicians, including pianist Ashley Wass (Great Britain), violinist Dayshin Kashimoto (Japan), altist Alexander Chaushyan (Great Britain), as well as Nikoghayos Vardanyan, Karen Kocharyan, Mary Margaryan and others. Music by Chaushyan, Shutakovich and Brams will be included in the concert program.

On October 23, Ashley Wass, Dayshin Kashimoto and Alexander Chaushyan will perform with the accompaniment of the state philharmonic orchestra at Aram Khachatryan hall presenting works by Beethoven, Harutyunyan and Profokyev. This will be the closing concert of the festival.

Source: Tert – Original Article

Renowned Armenian artist to perform in Turkey

Worldwide known Armenian lute virtuoso Ara Dinkjian, whose family migrated to America in the beginning of 19th century, will appear on stage in Istanbul’s Hagia Irene as part of a hospital project to be built for the disabled.

Speaking to the Anatolia news agency, Dinkjian said his grandfather went from the eastern Turkish city of Diyarbakır to France at the beginning of the 19th century, and after the death of his parents, his father was adopted by a family. Later on, his father immigrated to America and he was born in 1958 in New Jersey, Dinkjian said.  Read more... (333 words)

120,000 drams for Pugacheva’s concert

Russian primadonna Alla Pugacheva will perform at the Karen Demirchyan sport-concert complex on September 25 as part of her farewell tour.

Tickets are still not sold out for the concer that has been advertised for the past couple of months. The reason for this are the prices that range from 5,000 to 120,000 drams ($13 to $315). The average prices are 15,000-30,000 drams. The 20,000 dram tickets are sold out, leaving only the tickets for up to 120,000 drams.

As box offices told “A1+”, low-cost tickets were sold very quickly. As far as the most expensive [120,000 drams] tickets are concerned, they sold rather well. However, they weren’t able to say exactly how many tickets were sold.  Read more... (187 words)