MUSIC DIRECTOR OF ARLINGTON PHILHARMONIC RUBEN VARTANYAN DIES

Noyan Tapan

Ma y 15, 2008

ARLINGTON, MAY 15, ARMENIANS TODAY – NOYAN TAPAN. 70 years old Ruben
Vartanian, the Music Director of the Arlington Philharmonic died at
his home in Arlington on May 7. The cause of death was a cerebral
hemorrhage.

Maestro Vartanyan had been an Arlington resident since arriving in
the area in 1988. He had served as the music director of the previous
Arlington Symphony for 13 years, and took the helm of the Philharmonic,
when it was created in 2005.