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    AGBU Press Office
    55 East 59th Street
    New York, NY 10022-1112
    Phone: 212.319.6383, x118
    Fax: 212.319.6507
    Email: [email protected]
    Website: www.agbu.org

    PRESS RELEASE

    Tuesday, May 11, 2010

    AGBU Quartet Thrills 1,500 in Aleppo, Damascus and Beirut

    A quartet of talented Armenian musicians completed their debut Middle
    East tour with much fanfare this winter and with sponsorship from the
    AGBU New York Special Events Committee (NYSEC). At all three concerts,
    the packed house included officials from the Syrian and Lebanese
    governments. The tour follows two successful AGBU concerts produced in
    the past two years with the support of NYSEC at Carnegie Hall in New
    York, where the four musicians played among others.

    The artists, Hayk Arsenyan, on piano, Aleksandr Nazaryan, on viola, and
    Hrant Parsamian, on cello, have all benefitted from AGBU's scholarship
    assistance towards their studies in music at distinguished international
    conservatories and universities. Violinist Nazig Tchakarian is still on
    scholarship as she pursues her doctorate in musical arts at Stony Brook
    University in New York state.

    This quartet gave the first of its sold-out concerts in the Nazarian
    Theater of the AGBU Center in Aleppo on January 24, 2010, and the second
    at Dar El Assad Theater for Culture and the Arts in Damascus on January
    28, under the auspices of the Syrian Ministry of Culture, organized by
    AGBU Damascus in cooperation with "Sada" [ECHO] Musical Culture
    Association. The program in Damascus featured piano quartets by Mozart
    and Brahms, as well as a trio playing "Four Seasons" by the Argentine
    composer Astor Byasula in a style combining elements of traditional
    tango, classical music and jazz.

    The final concert took place on January 31 through the initiative of the
    AGBU Lebanon Cultural Committee at the AGBU Demirdjian Center in the
    Beirut suburb of Antelias, with over 400 in attendance, including
    members of the Lebanese Parliament, ministers, ambassadors, well-known
    Lebanese musicians and academics, representatives of sister
    organizations, and AGBU leaders and members. After the quartet played
    pieces by Mozart, Piazzolla and Brahms, they responded to waves of
    applause and requests for an encore by playing Khachaturian's "Sword
    Dance."

    For decades, AGBU scholarships have been awarded to talented students of
    Armenian descent studying in the performing arts. With generous monetary
    contributions from donors, AGBU can carry out its mission of laying the
    foundation for the future of these artists. Recently, scholarships were
    awarded to New York-based students who had applied to the AGBU Education
    Department's Performing Arts Fellowship Program.

    Established in 1906, AGBU (www.agbu.org) is the world's largest
    non-profit Armenian organization. Headquartered in New York City, AGBU
    preserves and promotes the Armenian identity and heritage through
    educational, cultural, and humanitarian programs, annually touching the
    lives of some 400,000 Armenians around the world.

    For more information about AGBU and its worldwide programs, please visit
    www.agbu.org.
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