YOUNG ARMENIAN CONDUCTOR TO PERFORM AT ORCHID SUMMER FEST
PanARMENIAN.Net
August 2, 2011 – 17:47 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – Macedonia-hosted music fest, Orchid Summer Festival
will feature Tenors of the 21st Century music spectacle.
The spectacle will be performed by 8 Russian tenors, Alexander
Zakharov, Maxim Paster, Sergei Pisarev, Alexander Skvarko, Alexander
Bogdanov, Mikhail Urusov, Georgi Faradzhev, Dmitry Sibirtsev and
Orchestra of Macedonian Opera and Ballet under the guidance of Armenian
conductor Sergey Smbatyan.
Compositions of R. Strauss, Puccini, Rossini, Albinoni, Verdi, Tosti,
Rodrigo will be featured in the program.
Sergey Smbatyan belongs to the youngest generation of the conducting
profession who has succeeded to achieve significant results and
build a promising international career. Being a BA from the Yerevan
and Moscow Conservatory, founder and chief conductor of the Youth
State Orchestra of Armenia, Smbatyan continues his conducting
education at the Royal Academy of Music in London. So far Smbatyan
has collaborated with the leading world conductors Riccardo Muti, Sir
Colin Davis, Valery Gergiev and he has had a remarkable performances at
renowned festivals with leading orchestras from the rank of Krzysztof
Penderecki, Vladimir Spivakov, Boris Berezovsky, Denis Matsuev, Vadim
Repin, Maxim Vengerov. Smbatyan is the founder and chief conductor
of the unique UNICEF Children~Rs Orchestra consisted of musicians
aged between 10 and 15, with which he has performed in many European
cities and at the Armenian Composing Art Festival under the patronage
of the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan.