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...
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...
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...
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...
Armenian-American executive director, conductor, podcaster, and radio host, Dr. Tigran Arakelyan has been named one of the Top 30 Professionals of the Year by Musical America Worldwide, the oldest classical music magazine in America. This year’s Musical America Top 30 Professionals are the entrepreneurs, the worker bees, the creative minds that ensure the...
The Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of its artistic director and principal conductor Eduard Topchjan, will make a world tour through Greece, the USA, and Canada. The tour is dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the famous Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian. The concerts will take place at...
Greek composer topped US charts and won an Oscar with Chariots of Fire’s uplifting piano-led theme Timeless themes … Vangelis in 1976. Photograph: Michael Putland/Getty Images https://www.theguardian.com-Ben Beaumont-Thomas Vangelis, the Greek composer and musician whose synth-driven work brought huge drama to film soundtracks including Blade Runner and Chariots of...
The first Armenian woman to be running for a political seat in the upcoming Canadian Federal Elections. Anna Simonyan was selected to represent the Ahuntsic-Cartierville riding in Montreal and therefore became the first Armenian woman to obtain the privilege to try to gain a political seat in Canada. Miss...
On August 3, 2019, upon invitation of His Grace Bishop Abgar Hovakimyan, Primate, a family of Original Peoples of Canada from Alberta visited the Diocesan Headquarters. His Grace, accompanied by Rev. Fr. Komitas Mirzakhanyan, Parish Priest of Holy Cross Armenian Church of Laval, Rev. Fr. David Margaryan, Parish Priest...
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