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FLORA MARTIROSIAN'S FAREWELL AND BURIAL CEREMONIES TO BE HELD ON DECEMBER 11
20:07, 7 December, 2012
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 7, ARMENPRESS: The farewell ceremony of the renowned
and beloved Armenian singer Flora Martirosian will take place on
December 11 at 12:00-14:00 in Aram Khachaturian concert hall. The
burial ceremony will take place the same day in Yerevan Pantheon.
Armenpress was informed from the public relations department of
Armenian Ministry of Culture.
Flora Martirosian was born on February 5, 1957 in Leninakan (now
Gyumri), Armenian SSR, Soviet Union to a family of an athlete and a
housewife. She inherited her vocal skills from her mother. Martirosian
studied at the Gyumri Musial School. Her participation in the Garun 73
contest in 1973 brought her the first prize. A graduate of the Yerevan
State Conservatory, she later married Hrahat Gevorgyan, a journalist,
in 1987. The family moved to Los Angeles, US, in 1987 and returned
to Yerevan in 1997. Martirosian was the principal of Yerevan's Armen
Tigranyan Musical School between 1997-2001. She then again moved to
Los Angeles after her husband got an appointment. Martirosian founded
the Komitas Musical Academy in Los Angeles in 2002. In 2008, she
established the Artists for Peace Chartity Foundation which attracted
a large number of world-renowned singers and Hollywood superstars who
joined under the slogan "Never Again" to raise their voice of protest
against genocides. Martirosian gave her first concert in Los Angeles
in 2011.
The singer passed away on November 20, 2012. Complications of a
gallbladder surgery are thought to be the cause of her decease.
President Serzh Sargsyan stated that she was "truly national", then
continued "Audiences, which she collected in homeland and in the
Diaspora, talk about the ethnic routes of her songs, which she has
earned as a distinctive singer and Armenian artist".
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
20:07, 7 December, 2012
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 7, ARMENPRESS: The farewell ceremony of the renowned
and beloved Armenian singer Flora Martirosian will take place on
December 11 at 12:00-14:00 in Aram Khachaturian concert hall. The
burial ceremony will take place the same day in Yerevan Pantheon.
Armenpress was informed from the public relations department of
Armenian Ministry of Culture.
Flora Martirosian was born on February 5, 1957 in Leninakan (now
Gyumri), Armenian SSR, Soviet Union to a family of an athlete and a
housewife. She inherited her vocal skills from her mother. Martirosian
studied at the Gyumri Musial School. Her participation in the Garun 73
contest in 1973 brought her the first prize. A graduate of the Yerevan
State Conservatory, she later married Hrahat Gevorgyan, a journalist,
in 1987. The family moved to Los Angeles, US, in 1987 and returned
to Yerevan in 1997. Martirosian was the principal of Yerevan's Armen
Tigranyan Musical School between 1997-2001. She then again moved to
Los Angeles after her husband got an appointment. Martirosian founded
the Komitas Musical Academy in Los Angeles in 2002. In 2008, she
established the Artists for Peace Chartity Foundation which attracted
a large number of world-renowned singers and Hollywood superstars who
joined under the slogan "Never Again" to raise their voice of protest
against genocides. Martirosian gave her first concert in Los Angeles
in 2011.
The singer passed away on November 20, 2012. Complications of a
gallbladder surgery are thought to be the cause of her decease.
President Serzh Sargsyan stated that she was "truly national", then
continued "Audiences, which she collected in homeland and in the
Diaspora, talk about the ethnic routes of her songs, which she has
earned as a distinctive singer and Armenian artist".
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress