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Lark Musical Society
543 Arden Avenue
Glendale, California 91203
Contact: Vatsche Barsoumian
Tel: 818-500-9997
Fax: 818-500-8500
E-mail: vatsche@aol.com
Web: larkmusicalsociety.com
LARK MUSICAL SOCIETY PRESENTS YOUNG ARMENIAN COMPOSER ARTUR AVANESOV
Glendale, CA – The Lark Musical Society is pleased to inform the
arts-loving public about a series of lectures and concerts to be held in
Los Angeles and Glendale in January and February 2010. The four events,
organized and coordinated by Lark Executive Director, Maestro Vatsche
Barsoumian, will feature the renowned young Armenian composer and
virtuosic pianist, Dr. Artur Avanesov, specially invited from Yerevan,
Armenia.
The first event, dedicated to the works of the 20th century Armenian
composer, Arno Babajanian, will take place on Sunday, January 24, at
3:00 p.m.,in the Zipper Concert Hall at the Colburn School, 200 S. Grand
Avenue, in downtown Los Angeles, as part of the Dilijan Chamber Music
Series’ fifth season. The concert will introduce as guest artists: Artur
Avanesov, teacher of composition and contemporary music at Yerevan
Conservatory, and scholar in the Republic of Armenia’s Academy of
Sciences; and Maria Abajan, dramatic soprano, who enjoys an
international career in the operatic world. Also performing will be:
Movses Pogossian, Dilijan Series artistic director; Roger Wilkie; Kate
Vincent; and Ronald Leonard. A post-concert dinner, organized by the
Dilijan Committee, will be held at Santorini’s "Rococo" Restaurant, 70
West Union Street, Pasadena, at 6:00 p.m.
On Sunday, January 31, at 6:00 p.m., the community will have an
opportunity to spend "An Evening with Artur Avanesov", in collaboration
with soloists and the Lark choir. The event will be held in the
Turpanjian Hall, Lark Conservatory, 543 Arden Avenue, Glendale.
On Sunday, February 7, at 6:00 p.m., the recent Drazark Press
publication, "ANTHOLOGY OF PIANO PIECES BY MODERN ARMENIAN COMPOSERS",
compiled by Artur Avanesov, will be introduced by its author, a bright
young star on the Armenian musical landscape, who will lecture in
English and introduce Armenian music, written during the first decade
of the 21st century by young Armenian composers of his generation. The
lecture-performance will highlight the new music trends being developed
in Armenia and offer a unique opportunity to experience the tastes and
talents of young Armenian musicians living all over the world as they
create in the most advanced and avant-garde musical language developed
to date and currently in use internationally. The event, to be held in
Lark Conservatory’s Turpanjian Hall, is open to all. A reception will
follow the lecture and performance.
Culminating his visit to Southern California, on Wednesday, February 10,
at 8:00 p.m., Dr. Avanesov will meet with the students of Lark
Conservatory in a master class, followed by a reception.
Established in 1989, the Lark Musical Society is an institution embedded
within the thriving Armenian community of Southern California. dedicated
to nurturing the Armenian musical arts within a matrix of American
culture and western classical music. For further information regarding
reservations to and sponsorship for these one-of-a-kind musical events,
please call the Lark Musical Society’s office, at 818-500-9997.
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