06.09.2024
CONDUCTOR SERGEY SMBATYAN TO OPEN MALTA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA’S 2024-2025 SEASON WITH ARMENIAN VIRTUOSO SERGEY KHACHATRYAN
Valletta, Malta – Sergey Smbatyan, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, and Principal Conductor of the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, will lead the opening concert of the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2024-25 season. Under the baton of Maestro Smbatyan, the concert will feature Jean Sibelius’ iconic Violin Concerto delivered by violin virtuoso...
23.08.2024
Tigran Hamasyan is one of the highlights of this year’s PRAGUE SOUNDS program and will be performing at the closing concert of the festival. Guy Borg
Guy Borg, Music Programmer of PRAGUE SOUNDS international music festival in Prague, answers the questions of the editor-in-chief of ORER magazine, Hakob Asatryan. -When was the PRAGUE SOUNDS music festival founded and for what purpose?-The festival was founded in 1996 under the auspices of then-president Vaclav Havel, who wanted to open up the spaces of...
23.08.2024
Soprano Asmik Grigorian received The Grand Jury Prize of the Austrian Music Theatre Award 2024
Congratulations to Alpha Classics soprano Asmik Grigorian , who has received The Grand Jury Prize of the Austrian Music Theatre Award 2024 (Österreichischer Musiktheaterpreis). Born in Vilnius in 1981, Asmik Grigorian’s unparalleled career and her enormous contribution to the world of opera have had a lasting impact on music theatre. Discover her latest album, ‘Laws...
24.07.2024
Armenian opera singer Anna Nshanyan dies in Los Angeles
Armenian soprano Anna Nshanyan, who made a major contribution to the Armenian National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet with many years of activity, passed away untimely in the Los Angeles, United States, the theater broke the news on Facebook on Wednesday. Anna Nshanyan started working at the theater in 1959, performing many opera roles....
10.06.2024
Komitas 155th birth anniversary in Cardiff and London by KCCA
Klingen Choir and Cultural Association under the auspices of the Embassy of Armenia to the UK and the Armenian Community Centre Wales presented a concert-exhibition dedicated to Komitas 155th birth anniversary on Saturday 8 June 2024 in St German’s Church, Metal St Cardiff for the 1st time in Wales. The event director and manager was...
07.05.2024
Armenian State Symphony Orchestra Announces U.S. Tour Led By Maestro Sergey Smbatyan, With Celebrated Violinist Sergey Khachatryan.
The Armenian State Symphony Orchestra is thrilled to announce its upcoming United States concert tour taking place in June 2024. This landmark tour celebrates the legacy of the legendary Aram Khachaturian, featuring some of the most iconic works by the composer, reports Zartonk Media. Led by the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Sergey Smbatyan, the...
06.05.2024
“COMPOSER ON BROADWAY” concert by Anush Hovhannissian and Sam Jewison
By Kariné Guzelian The venue for the “Composer on Broadway” concert was the David Lloyd George room in the National Liberal Club, by the banks of the River Thames. Lloyd George served as British Prime Minister from 1916 to 1922 and was among the first non-Armenians to acknowledge “the extermination and deportation of the whole...
02.05.2024
Spring Remembrance Concert dedicated to Alexander Spendiaryan and Lazar Saryan in Montreal
Spring Remembrance Concert, a musical event in cooperation with British Armenian maestro Sipan Olah. The concert was dedicated to prominent Armenian composers Alexander Spendiaryan and Lazar Saryan. The works of these outstanding Armenian composers were presented in Montreal, Canada for the first time on Sunday April 28, 2024 at the AGBU Montreal Alex Manoogian Center....
21.12.2023
Dvořák’s lyric fairy tale Rusalka in UK cinemas. Semyon Bychkov conducts an all-star cast featuring Asmik Grigorian in the title role.
Live from Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 6.45pm, with Encore screenings from Sunday, January 28, 2024 at 2pm. Rusalka, a water spirit, lives with her family in the pure waters of the forest lake. When she falls in love with a Prince, she sacrifices her voice and leaves her home in the hope of finding...