Music: Grammy award winning violinist Maxim Vengerov to perform in Armenia

Public Radio of Armenia

16:30, 30 Jun 2017

World famous violinist Maxim Vengerov will perform together with the State Youth Orchestra of Armenia, headed by conductor Sergey Smbatyan.

The concert will be held on July 12 at Aram Khachaturian concert hall at the gala concert of the Armenia International Festival and Competition.

A two-time Grammy award winner, Vengerov has also received Gramophone Award UK, Edison Award, Echo Klassik Award, Amadeus Prize Best Recording, Brit Award, Prix de la Nouvelle and other prizes.

The orchestra will perform Symphonic Poem “Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune” by Claude Debussy, Violin Concerto by Johannes Brahms, “Lonely Sail” for Violin and Orchestra by Alexey Shor.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS