The State Youth Orchestra of Armenia (SYOA) will be participating in Italy-hosted Musica Riva Festival in a capacity of an official orchestra.

At the July 20 opening ceremony, the orchestra will jointly perform with cellist Natalia Gutman and with pianist Aldo Ciccolini on July 24.

SYOA will give concerts on July 27, August 1 and 3. One whole day (July 30) will be devoted to solely Armenian music, with the event featuring Aram Khachaturian’s compositions. To perfor at the events are Austrian and Armenian soloists Elena Tanski (violin) and Lusine Mkrtchyan (soprano).

During the festival, Isaac Karabtchevsky will give master-classes for conductors, to be accompanied by the SYOA performance.

Musica Riva is based on 30-year history of unique and well-established traditions. Each year it unites world famous orchestras, soloists, dance groups, choirs and famous representatives of world music art, such as Aldo Ciccolini, Emmanuel Pahud, Renato Bruzon, Isaac Karabtchevsky, Gloria Gaynor, Alessandro Carbonare, Mauro Maur, Placido Domingo, Gilberto Gil.