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    Emil Lazarian
  • 6 years ago
    • Categories: 2019

Music: Armenia’s Sergey Smbatyan to perform at Malta International Music Festival

Panorama, Armenia
Culture 14:24 30/04/2019 Armenia

Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra Sergey Smbatyan is set to conduct the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra in Valletta, the capital of Malta on Saturday, May 4.

The concert titled “Magic Violin” will take place within the framework of Malta International Music Festival held from April 29 to May 10, the orchestra said.

The world-famous violinist Ji-Young Lim is going to feature the concert. The latter is a laureate of numerous prominent international competitions, including the Queen Elisabeth Competition, and performs as a soloist with leading orchestras throughout the world.

Under the baton of Sergey Smbatyan Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 and the Overture to the ballet “Crystal Palace”, “Seascapes” and “Flight of a Falcon” by Alexey Shor written for violin and orchestra are set to be performed.

Malta International Music Festival is organized by the European Foundation for Support of Culture and Malta Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2018 the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra was the official orchestra of the festival and delighted the European audience for a month with its unprecedented repertoire and skilled performance with various outstanding soloists.  

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