LOS ANGELES — Qanon (kanun) player Marianna Gevorgyan won the “Best Instrumentalist” award at the InterContinental Music Awards (ICMA) competition in the “Best Musician” category. This year, the competition attracted[...]
LEXINGTON, Mass. — The group Massachusetts Chamber Music Artists opens its second season with “Crossroads”, a program that explores the places where cultures, traditions, and musical voices intersect. The event[...]
GLENDALE — Mek Contemporary presents “Idols In Bloom,” the gallery’s inaugural exhibition and a solo presentation of work by Rafael Megall. On view from September 24 through November 6, the[...]
LOS ANGELES — Following the success of its sold-out world premiere at the Greek Theatre, People of AR Cultural Foundation presents “Echoes of Our Ancestors 2: Heroes & Saints,” a[...]
YEREVAN — They are recognized internationally as an outstanding vocal group, and informally called cultural ambassadors of Armenia. The Little Singers of Armenia choir, founded in 1992 by Artistic Director[...]
In 1996, when Daniel Varoujan Hejinian installed the first large-scale billboard dedicated to the memory of the Armenian Genocide in Cambridge, Mass., it triggered a powerful and deeply polarized wave[...]
ARLINGTON, Mass. — KAMURJNER Cultural Connections, Inc., hosted a recital featuring rising Armenian-American soprano Lucia Papikian, joined by pianist Michele Wong, on August 9 at the Armenian Cultural Foundation. The[...]
By Kevork Keushkerian LOS ANGELES — As of July 1, the Los Angeles Opera has a new music director, Domingo Hindoyan. He is succeeding James Conlon with a five-year contract.[...]
Chris Bohjalian’s latest novel, The Amateur, takes place during the late 1980s in the upscale suburb of Tallmadge — a fictional town based, one assumes, on places like Rye or[...]
VENICE/YEREVAN — This year, at the 61st International Art Exhibition of Venice — the Biennale — the National Pavilion of the Republic of Armenia presents Zadik Zadikian’s solo exhibition, “The[...]
By Raphael Hakopdjanian In the fall of 1978, I, then 29 and the artistic director of the Armenian National Theater, was visiting Moscow when my Armenian colleagues called me from[...]
