Prominent conductor, National Academic Choir Director Hovhannes Chekidjian, holder of Order of Motherland for outstanding personal contribution to culture as well as for exceptional services rendered to the Armenian people, celebrates his 93rd birthday anniversary on December 23. 

Armenia's Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Vahram Dumanyan has congratulated the renowned intellectual on the occasion of his birthday, wishing him robust health and new creative achievements. 

"Maestro Chekidjian's contribution to the development and propagation of the Armenian choir music is invaluable. It is difficult to name a country where Maestro has not performed with his Choir, presenting the achievements of the Armenian Choir music and the masterpieces of Komitas throughout the world," the congratulatory message reads in part.