A special concert in honor of the late Maestro Aram Gharabekian’s 60th birthday will take place on July 19 at the National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Yerevan.
The concert, organized by the Gharabekian family, will feature performances by renowned musicians Sergey Khachatryan, Federico Mondelci, Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi, Suren Bagratuni, Armen Babakhanian, Svetlana Navasardyan, Arsen Ter-Tatshatyan, Tigran Hamasyan and the Armenian Little Singers Artistic Director, Maestro Tigran Hekekyan.
The proceeds from the concert will help obtain musical instruments for the newly built concert hall in Shushi.
Tickets are on sale at ticket booths of the Opera and Ballet Theatre, toms.am, tomsarkgh.am, VIP Arts Service and Artbridge. For information please contact (374) 91 53 57 58.
Born in Iran in 1955, Gharabekian moved to the U.S. at a young age and studied composition and piano. He graduated from the New England Conservatory with a Master’s degree in Composition, and continued his postgraduate studies in Musical Phenomenology at Mainz University in Germany. He studied conducting with Franco Ferrara in Italy, and was one of a few pupils of the legendary conductor Sergiu Celibidache. He was also granted a fellowship to study composition and conducting under Jacob Druckman and Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood Music Center.
Gharabekian has commissioned and premiered several works by American and non-American composers. His concert recordings have been broadcast on National Public Radio, and he has made numerous recordings for Ukrainian, Croatian, and Armenian Radio and Television, Boston’s WBZ-Television, WBUR, WGBH and WCRB FM radio stations in Boston, WNYC FM in New York, the Voice of America in Washington, and Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich.
The recipient of the 1989 Lucien Wulsin Performance Award for the best concert performance aired on America’s National Public Radio, Gharabekian was also awarded the 1988 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Award for Adventuresome Programming.
He was twice honored by the Harvard Musical Association’s “Best Performance Award” and his performances have been singled out as “Best of 1985, 1989, 1990, and 1991” by the Boston Globe.
He is the recipient of the Presidential Medal for his contributions to the arts in Armenia.
Maestro Gharabekian died unexpectedly on Jan. 10, 2014, in Los Angeles at the age of 58.
For more detailed information about the concert, please contact Elina Sahakyan at elina@tpg.am or visit the Facebook event.
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