Tehran Times, Iran
January 5, 2018 Friday
Weeklong honoring program for maestro Loris Tjeknavorian begins
TEHRAN – The Iranian-Armenian maestro Loris Tjeknavorian is being honored for his lifetime achievements during a weeklong program, which opened with a concert at Tehran's Vahdat Hall on Thursday.
At the beginning of the concert, the Tehran Contemporary Ensemble performed "Requiem for the Massacred", a piece composed by Tjeknavorian in memory of those who were killed in the Armenian Genocide committed by the Ottoman government.
Tjeknavorian was in attendance at the concert and said that he is eagerly waiting to see the performances of his compositions, most which have never been performed in Iran.
The honoring program entitled "80 Years of Loris Tjeknavorian" has been sponsored by the Tehran-based men's clothing store, Hacoupain.
The program continued at the Iranian Artists Forum on Friday by screening "Pilgrimage to Gyumri", a documentary film about a concert that Tjeknavorian performed to support the victims of the 7 December 1988 earthquake in northern Armenia, which killed 25,000 and left hundreds of thousands homeless.
Photo: The Iranian-Armenian maestro Loris Tjeknavorian poses at Tehran's Vahdat Hall on January 4, 2018 before the beginning of the program "80 Years Loris Tjeknavorian". (IRNA/Marzieh Musavi)