Adamyan Dazzles on Stage in Pasadena

Diana appeared as a soloist in Gala Concert of Ottawa’s National Arts Center, alongside Maestro Pinchas Zukerman and Itzhak Perlman.

At the end of her flawless presentation and upon the audience’s repeated standing ovations, she returned to the stage and performed Gomidas Vartabed’s Groong (Crane). I think she was being true to her national identity and I admired her for that honest feeling.

Mason Bates is a Bay Area composer that wrote this piece in 2014. It is a tribute to the Silicon Valley’s great inventions of our time; such as Apple, Intel and Google. These visionaries he says, “Conjured new worlds within the bright Valley’s dark garages.”

Mendelssohn took 6 years to finish this concerto, which was written for his friend, the famed violinist Ferdinand David, concertmaster of the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig. David premiered it in Leipzig in 1845, but Mendelssohn was ill and unable to attend.

Tchaikovsky composed this symphony in 1877. He was strongly influenced by the events in his life that year. He dedicated the work to Mme. von Meck, expressing his confidence in the new work: “I feel in my heart that this work is the best I have ever written.”