KOMITAS SONGS NOMINATED FOR GRAMMY
PanARMENIAN.Net
15.01.2009 16:53 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Canadian singer Isabel Bayrakdarian was shortlisted
for Best Vocal Performance Grammy Nomination with Komitas’ songs she
sings with the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Grammy.com reports.
Isabel Bayrakdarian has already released a CD with Komitas’ songs.
Komitas, who was born on in 1869 in Kutahya, Ottoman Empire, and died
in 1935 in Paris, France, was an Armenian priest, composer, choir
leader, singer, music ethnologist, music pedagogue and musicologist. He
is regarded as the founder of modern Armenian classical music.