CELLIST NAREK HAKHNAZARYAN TO GIVE A CONCERT IN BOSTON
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
17.06.2009 20:02 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On June 20, Armenian cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan will
have a joint performance with Boston Pops Orchestra within "Armenian
Soiree" 58th international festival framework. The 20-year-old
cellist will feature excerpts from Aram Khatchaturyan’s "Gayane" and
"Spartacus" ballets, Ippolitov-Ivanov’s "La Procession du Sardar",
"Lara’s Theme" from Maurice Jarre’s Dr. Zhivago, Tchaikovsky’s
"Variations on a Rococo" theme for cello & orchestra.
Narek Hakhnazaryan was born in 1988 in Yerevan, Armenia, into a
family of musicians. His early studies were at the Sayat-Nova School
of Music in Yerevan with Zareh Sarkisyan. At the age of 12, he began
studies at the Moscow Conservatory with Alexey Seleznyov.
Narek Hakhnazaryan is a laureate of several international competitions,
including First Prize in the 2006 Aram Khachaturian International
Competition in Armenia, First Place in the 2006 Johansen International
Competition for Young String Players, and Fifth Prize at the 2007
Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow. He has received
scholarships from the Rostropovich Russian Performing Arts Fund and has
performed in Russia, Germany, Italy, Austria, France, Great Britain,
Greece, Turkey and Canada