ON OCTOBER 18, ART-LOVERS TO BID LAST FAREWELL TO SINGER VARDUHI VARDANIAN
Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Oct 16 2006
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 16, NOYAN TAPAN. 30-year-old well-known singer,
laureate of a number of international competitions, Varduhi Vardanian
died on October 15, in a car accident on the Sevan-Martuni-Getap road.
In 1993 the singer finished the music school of Armenian Chorus
Company, in 1994 Yerevan State Institute of Foreign Languages after
V.Brusov and in 2003 Yerevan State Conservatory after Komitas. In 1994
V.Vardanian took part in the international competition in Sverdlovsk
with the Jazz Pop ensemble and received Grand Prix. Since 1995 she
had been working at the Armenian State Theater of Song. In 1996 the
singer participated in the Yalta-Moscow-Transit international contest
of young singers where she received a special prize for the best
performance. In 1999 V.Vardanian was recognized the best singer of the
year. In the same year she participated in the Zolotoy Shlyager contest
in Belarus and gained the second prize. In 2000 she received Grand
Prix and Spectator’s Sympathy special prize at the Discovery Bulgarian
contest. V.Vardanian also received Grand Prix at the competition held
in Macedonia in the same year. In 2002 she took part in the Slavyanski
Bazar international competition and received the second prize.
The art-lovers will bid their last farewell to the singer on October
18, at the Aram Khachatrian concert hall.