Armenian cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan to perform at Sydney Opera HouseMay 4, 2016 - 15:15 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Prominent Armenian cellist, Gold Medal winner at 2011 Tchaikovsky Competition Narek Hakhnazaryan will make his Australian debut on May 4, 6 and 7, performing with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House. The concert program includes the Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad) by Shostakovich and Variations on a Rococo Theme by Tchaikovsky, the website of the Sydney Opera House said. Hakhnazaryan played with prestigious orchestras around the world, including London Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Rotterdam Philharmonic and Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev. He also performed with orchestras including Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Ton Koopman, where he stood in for Yo-Yo Ma, and with St. Luke's Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, La Scala, NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, the Seoul Philharmonic, and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Related links: Top stories Paris Center Pompidou Musée National d’Art Moderne will host the screening of Sergei Parajanov’s "Triptych" on December 15. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |