PREMIERES OF TIGRAN MANSURIAN’S TWO WORKS TO TAKE PLACE IN JANUARY IN SWEDEN AND NEW YORK

Noyan Tapan
Dec 21 2006

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 21, NOYAN TAPAN. Violin Concert N 2 of composer
Tigran Mansurian, RA People’s Artist, professor of Yerevan Komitas
State Conservatory, will be performed for the first time by Chamber
Orchestra of Sweden in January 2007 in Stockholm. Then the Armenian
composer’s work will be also presented to music-lovers of three Swedish
cities. As T.Mansurian said in his interview to NT correspondent,
the concert was written by the order of Canadian Armenian violinist
Levon Chilingarian. In his words, an agreement has been reached with
the violinist, according to which he will also perform this concert
in Armenia next year. T.Mansurian also reminded that he has written a
work "Hogov" by the order of the Concertant American string orchestra,
the premiere of which will take place on March 22, 2007 in New York.