CONCERT DEDICATED TO ARMENIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC HELD IN TBILISI

Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
March 5 2007

TBILISI, MARCH 5, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. A concert of Caucasian
Chamber Ochestra dedicated to Armenian classical music was held on
February 27 at Tbilisi Royal district’s theater. Works of E. Mirzoyan,
A. Haroutiunian and S. Aslamazian were on the concert program.

According to the report provided to Noyan Tapan from RA Foreign
Ministry Press and Information Department, First Lady of Georgia Sandra
Ruloffs, ambassadors and diplomats accredited in Georgia, leader of
Armenian Apostolic Church Diocese in Georgia Vazgen Mirzakhanian,
representatives of Armenian community listened to the works of
Armenian composers.

RA Ambassador to Georgia Hrach Silvanian made a greeting speech before
the concert. He, in particular, said that the magic world of music
liquidates racial, ethnic differences and prejudices, destroys state
borders, disregards national hatred and conflicts.

The concert organized on the initiative of RA Embassy in Georgia
and Orchestra head Uwe Berkemer passed successfully and found a wide
resonance in Georgian cultural circles and press.

The Caucasian Chamber Orchestra was founded in 2005 by German
conductor Uwe Berkemer with the support of First Lady of Georgia
Sandra Ruloffs and Marie Anne Isler Beguin, Chairwoman of European
Parliament’s delegation for issues of cooperation with South Caucasian
countries. The main idea of Orchestra’s creation is to show art’s
force and abilities in the issue of unification and consolidation of
Caucasian region’s peoples. The Orchestra’s staff is international
and consists of Armenian. Georgian and Russian musicians.