INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL TO BE HELD IN YEREVAN

PanARMENIAN.Net
01.09.2009 19:33 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Third Yerevan International Music Festival will be
held from September 11 to October 23. Opening the festival will begin
with a joint performance of the Concerto for Viola and Orchestra N2
of Tigran Mansuryan and Symphony N5 of Shostakovich by viola player
Kim Kashkashyan (USA) and the State Philharmonic Orchestra of Armenia.

In the framework of the festival musicians from Germany, Britain,
Armenia, France, Italy, Russia, Belgium, Austria and Japan will
perform in Yerevan.

Festival’s artistic director is the conductor of the State
Philharmonic Orchestra of Armenia Eduard Topchyan and the cellist
Alexander Chaushyan. The Armenia’s ministry of culture, Armenian
General Benevolent Union (AGBU) are organizers of the third Yerevan
International Music Festival.