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Soviet and Armenian composer
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- Soviet Union, Russia
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2022-04-08 14:24:40
The Aznavoorian Duo, Chicago-raised sisters cellist Ani Aznavoorian and pianist Marta Aznavoorian, join together to create this debut. The album presents works by Komitas Vartabed, Aram Khachaturian, Arno Babajanian, Avet Terterian, and Armenian contemporary composers Serouj Kradjian, Alexander Arutiunian, and Vache Sharafyan. It will also feature a world premiere recording of a new piece […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2022-03-26 05:25:00
Classical Music News of the Week, March 26, 2022
Chicago Area's 49th Annual Bach Week FestivalThe Chicago area’s 49th annual Bach Week Festival will present concerts in Chicago and Evanston, Illinois, from April 24 to May 12, 2022.Performances will include the Baroque music festival’s first mainstage period-instrument program; a concert of Johann Sebastian Bach sacred and secular vocal masterworks, including the great Magnificat of 1723; the return of international piano sensation Sergei Babayan in an all-Bach solo recital; and a concert of Bach keyboard and violin concertos paired with a double-flute concerto by a Bach contemporary, composer-flutist Johann Joachim Quantz.“What’s striking, to me, about this year’s festival is the presence of works we’ve never performed before, alongside compositions that have been mainstays over the decades,” says Richard Webster, Bach Week’s music director since 1975. “We’re always on the lookout for ways to refresh and renew the festival.”Webster played harpsichord and organ at Evanston’s first Bach Week in 1974, which he […]
2021-06-18 18:42:10
Name: Joseph Terterian Teachers: Arax Tchekidjian, Rasha Rizk, Lubana Quntar From: Damascus, Syria. School: High Institute of Music and Performing Arts in Damascus Voice type: tenor The Syrian-born Armenian Joseph Terterian enjoys a fruitful career in the United Arab Emirates as a crossover singer. He is a multifaceted artist. So far, his career has encompassed [...]
2021-01-25 07:34:43
Armenian State Symphony Orchestra celebrates its 15th anniversary
[…] of festivals. In 2010, Sergey Smbatyan started the Armenian Composing Art Festival, with each year dedicated to a particular Armenian composer, including Tigran Chukhajyan (1837-1898), who created the first opera institution in the Ottoman Empire and wrote the first Armenian opera Arshak II (1868) and what may be the first Turkish language opera Arif'in Hilesi (1874), Romanos Melikyan (1883-1935), Haro Stepanyan (1897-1966), Grigor Yeghazarian (1908-1998), Ghazaros Saryan (1920-1998), Arno Babajanyan (1921-1983), Edvard Mirzoyan (1921-2012), Avet Terteryan (1929-1994), and Edgar Hovhannisyan (1930-1998), There is also the Khachaturian International Festival, which was established in 2013, and the Khachaturian International Competition which in 2020 was devoted to the violin. They also run an education project which 'strives to incite curiosity, understanding and liking for classical music among high school students', and recent charitable endeavours have been centred on the Armenian Christians fleeing the war in Artsakh (which is currently part of Azerbaijan) with […]
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