GYUMRI, Armenia—The sound of music is alive and well inside the Tigranyan Institute. Talented children are playing their instruments behind closed doors while parents gather, wait, listen, and hope. Inside the main auditorium, a young […]
Since its founding over four years ago, the Andreassian Music Fund (AMF) has presented over a dozen events. Yet none drew in a larger audience than the show “Music of Our Great Soul Brothers,” a […]
PARAMUS, N.J.—Over 10,000 children in Armenia and Karabagh who attend summer camps organized and sponsored by the Armenian Missionary Association of America (AMAA) will once again benefit from the proceeds of a Spring Concert to […]
BOSTON—YerazArt, a non-profit organization dedicated to nurturing and promoting young musicians from Armenia, announced this week that one of the musicians they had supported, Vardan Gasparyan, has been accepted into the Colburn School Conservatory of […]
ARLINGTON, Mass.—New England is set to celebrate and initiate the coming 100th anniversary of Armenian American composer Alan Hovhaness. Memorial events will include the unveiling and dedication of the first monument to the composer in […]
By Armand Andreassian Aram Demirjian has had a hectic schedule since graduating from Harvard in 2008 and leaving his post as director of the Bach Society Orchestra of his alma mater. His attention has been […]
BOSTON—California native and pianist Tanya Gabrielian recently won the 2008 prestigious Pro Musicis International Award. As part of her award, she will appear in debut recitals in New York on March 25 at Carnegie’s Weill […]
WATERTOWN, Mass. (A.W.)—On Feb. 13, Black Sea Salsa, the 15-piece Armenian salsa band, performed at the Charles Movsesian Theater at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown, alongside local Latin dance company “Hips on […]
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