Prelacy to Hold ‘Musical Armenia’ Concert in March

NEW YORK—This year’s “Musical Armenia” Concert, the 26th concert in the Eastern Prelacy’s highly successful series, will take place on Sun., March 8 at 2 p.m. Musical Armenia’s featured artists are cellist David Bakamjian and violinist Cecee Pantikian, who will be joined by violist Molly Carr, pianist Christine Diwyk, and pianist Anna Petrova. The concert will take place at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

Bakamjian, Pantikian, and their collaborators will perform an eclectic program that will include a violin sonata by Edvard Grieg, Leos Janacek’s Pohadka for cello with piano accompaniment, the violin and viola duo Passacaglia, written by Johan Halverson and based on a set of variations for harpsichord by George Frideric Handel, as well as compositions by Aram Khachaturian, Alexander Arutunian, and other composers.