The Armenian State Chamber Orchestra will tour India and China in September, presenting a concert program dedicated to the 35th anniversary of Armenia’s independence, the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport said.
The concert series will begin in Yerevan on Sept. 18 at 7 p.m. at the Chamber Music House. The program includes works by Edvard Mirzoyan, Alexander Spendiaryan, Khachatur Avetisyan, Arno Babajanyan, Vagharshak Kotoyan, Aram Khachaturian and Edvard Grieg.
The first concert in India will take place on Sept. 21 at the Victoria Memorial concert hall in Kolkata. On Sept. 23, the orchestra will perform at the Lotus Temple in New Delhi, followed by a Sept. 24 performance at the Music Academy hall in Chennai. The concerts have been organized under the auspices of the Armenian Embassy in India.
In China, concerts are scheduled for Sept. 27 at the Grand Theatre of the Zhongshan Culture and Art Center and Sept. 29 at the Li Ying Concert Hall of Peking University’s Centennial Memorial Hall. An open-air concert is also scheduled for Sept. 30 as part of the Shanghai International Music Festival.
During the tour, the orchestra will perform works by Armenian and European composers, including Komitas, Aram Khachaturian, Arno Babajanyan, Alexander Spendiaryan, Edvard Mirzoyan, Khachatur Avetisyan, Vagharshak Kotoyan, Charles Aznavour, Cesare Bixio, Luigi Arditi, Giacomo Puccini and Edvard Grieg.
The soloists will be the concert series’ artistic director, conductor and tenor Sipan Olah of the United Kingdom, pianist Katarine Hovsepyan, violinist Astghik Vardanyan and soprano Shoghik Torosyan of Lebanon.
