Topic: Classical Music

NEW YORK — The Stern Auditorium of Carnegie Hall came to Armenian life on November 15, as hundreds of music lovers crowded into most of its 2,300 seats to see[...]

By Kevork Keushkerian Special to the Mirror-Spectator PASADENA, Calif. — The Pasadena Symphony opened its 2023-2024 season on Saturday, October 21, with a classical concert that awed the audience. It was[...]

Armenia is famous for its musical culture, and the excellence of musical education. As my husband and I learned during our first visit there several years ago, the teaching staff[...]

YEREVAN/LOS ANGELES — Cellist Sergey Kosemyan, a native of Yerevan, was born into the family of Honored Artist of Armenia, famous violist, member of the Komitas State String Quartet Alexander[...]

LEXINGTON, Mass. —Grammy nominee composer Hayg Boyadjian’s composition, Variations on a theme by Bach for piano solo was recorded as part of the recently-released CD on the Navona label, “Sustain[...]

YEREVAN-TURIN — Italian musician Maurizio Redegoso Kharitian (born in 1970 in Turin (Torino) to a Genoese singer/guitarist father and a French-Armenian dancer mother) has played various instruments since his childhood[...]

WASHINGTON — A year and a half before he passed away, Aram Khachaturian decided that he wanted musicologist and researcher Victor Yuzefovich to write a book about him. Dr. Yuzefovich,[...]

YEREVAN-LONDON — Born and educated in Great Britain, writer, journalist Julia Harley-Green began writing professionally in Australia in the 1970s where she became a regular contributor to the Sydney Morning[...]

GYUMRI — On June 18, 2023, a historic concert took place in the Gyumri branch of the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan. It was the first time in the Conservatory’s[...]

LEIPZIG — Germany, known as the land of poets and thinkers, is also the land of musicians — Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, to mention the most famous. This year,[...]