  "National Gallery" International Music Festival to launch on April 22April 21, 2009 - 21:55 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Festival's Artistic Board is headed by famous composer Eduard Mirzoyan. The board members are composers Tigran Mansouryan and Yervand Yerkanyan, music expert Margarita Roukhkyan and chief conductor of Opera and Ballet Theatre Karen Dourgaryan. The founders of the project are Mariam Shaghinyan and Gagik Nazaryan."Within the framework of the festival, we are planning to celebrate Tigran Mansouryan's 70th anniversary," Mariam Shaghinyan said, adding at the same time that the festival program also includes première performances featured new trio "Yerevan". Says composer Tigran Mansouryan, "My works which, though written many years ago, were never performed in Yerevan, will be presented at the festival." The participants of the festival will be the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, the State Ensemble of Soloists, the trio "Yerevan", as well as musicians Maxim Novikov (Russia), Colin Jacobson (USA) and Carla Kieglstain (USA). Like in 2008, the festival will be held under the patronage of Vivacell-MTS company and the RA Ministry of Culture.   Top stories 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”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Related sections Latest news U.S. warns Georgia not to side with Moscow against the west  Georgia has been warned by the U.S. not to become an adversary of the west by falling back in line with Moscow.Power of One Dram sums up two-year program with Teach for Armenia Idram Junior also joined the companies during the visit, bringing with it a fascinating intellectual game for childrenMoscow slams EU mission in Armenia for “provocative activity” The EU mission is doing more and more against Armenia’s neighbors Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran, Mikhail Galuzin said.Yerevan Mayor to travel to Paris on May 15-19 The official delegation headed by Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinyan will travel to Paris from May 15 to 19. |
