The following extract is from Yerevan-based Russian author Yan Shenkman’s recently published book, At Home in Yerevan. Shenkman, born in 1973, is a writer, journalist, literary and musical critic. He[...]
YEREVAN/LOS ANGELES — Dancer Gagik Tadevosyan was born in 1993 in the village of Parpi, in Armenia. He started studying Latin American dance when he was 11, later he was[...]
YEREVAN — Foeng Yang Ming, a Chinese student at Yerevan State University, has gained recognition among many people in Armenia for his fluency in Armenian, interviews, and roles as a[...]
YEREVAN/TBILISI — Valerian Markarov, born in 1967, in Tbilisi, is an author and historian from Georgia who writes in the Russian language. After graduating with honors from the History Department[...]
YEREVAN / SANTIAGO, Chile – Ballet dancer, teacher and choreologist Carlos Pablo Aharonian — the only choreologist in Latin America — was born in 1956 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He started[...]
YEREVAN/OCEAN SHORES, Australia — Peter Davidian (born in 1958) is an Australian/Armenian composer and sitar player with a musical career extending for half a century. He has studied music from[...]
YEREVAN/CAIRO — Alla Vats is a renowned Russian dancer, teacher and choreographer. She was born in 1985 in Yerevan. When she was 8, she and her family moved to St.[...]
YEREVAN/HELSINKI — Finnish composer Vladimir Agopov (born 1953, Lugansk, Ukraine) graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1977 after studying with major Soviet composers Aram Khachaturian (composition) and Edison Denisov[...]
YEREVAN — Conductor Nvart Andreassian was born in Istanbul; since 2017, she has lived in Armenia. From 1966 to 1971, she studied at the Romanos Melikyan Music School, Armenia, with[...]
YEREVAN — Artist Marina Vagharshyan’s apartment is one of my favorite places in our city. Everything is beautiful here — the interiors, the paintings on the walls, and the hostess[...]
YEREVAN/RIGA — My friend Naira Khachatryan, a specialist in Latvian, brought Latvian artist and dancer Karine Paronjanc (Paronjanca/Paroniants) to my home last September. Her name was familiar to me, and[...]
