PRESS RELEASE
~U”Hayastan” All-Armenian Fund
~UGovernmental Building 3, Yerevan, RA
~UContact: Anush Babayan
~UTel: 3741 52 09 40
~UFax: 3741 52 37 95
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28.03.06
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Young artists-candidates of the President Prize
On March 26, a concert took place at the Chamber Music Hall.
Candidates for the nomination of classical music presented their art
to the jury and audience. The new prize will be granted annually and
the first awarding ceremony will take place in 2006. 37 applications
have been submitted for the categories of Vocal art and Instrumental
performing art. From the 33 soloists and 4 instrumental performers
respectively 5 and 2 artists were selected for the final stage. They
participated in the concert. Currently, the commission is discussing
the results and very soon the names of the winners will be announced.
A few days ago, a press-conference took place at the Executive Board
office of the “Hayastan” Fund with participation of Sergey
Saradjian, head of the commission for Instrumental performing art
nomination, Barsegh Tumanian, head of the commission for the Vocal
art nomination and Albert Yavuryan, head of the commission for the
Fine arts and cinema nomination, who is at the same time
representative of the Robert Boghossian and Sons. The adviser to the
Executive Director of the “Hayastan” Fund also took part at the
press-conference.
The Fund has received 47 applications for the President Youth Prize.
43 out of them are for the nomination of Fine arts and cinema and 4
for the Literature. Only 24 applicants have passed to the second
stage. Results of the first stage for the category of Literature are
not decided yet.
The President Youth Prize amount is 2,500 USD. The Prize amount for
the Classical music is 5000 USD.