PEACE-MAKING MISSION OF ENSEMBLE PRE-ART FACES RESISTANCE BY PROSPECTS OF 21ST CENTURY FESTIVAL

ArmInfo
2010-04-01 18:34:00

ArmInfo. The peace-making mission of Ensemble Pre-Art has come across
the resistance of the Prospects of 21st Century international festival.

During a press-conference today the president of the festival Stepan
Rostomyan said that Aquatuor and Pre-Art ensembles from Switzerland
will give a concert in Chamber Music House Apr 2. For several years
already Pre-Art has conducted a competition for young composers from
all over the world. Authors from Armenia, Belarus, Croatia, Kosovo,
Latvia, FYR Macedonia, Serbia, Uzbekistan, Turkey and Azerbaijan have
won the contest so far.

During the Yerevan concert Pre-Art is going to perform some of the
winning works, including by Artur Avanessov, Aram Hovhannissyan, Arman
Gushchyan and Artur Akshelyan. Pre-Art has repeatedly said that its
key goal is to reconcile conflicting parties with the help of music.

Their Yerevan program also includes works by Turkish and Azeri
composers. "I don’t like them very much. If I were the only one to
decide, as the president of the festival, I would not include them in
the concert’s program," Rostomyan said. He said that Days of Azeri
Culture are being presently held in London and Azerbaijan is using
this opportunity for pushing up its political interests. "I think
that we will do 50/50: the Turkish work will be performed while the
Azeri one will not," Rostomyan said.