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    Audience in Barcelona accepted enthusiastically concert dedicated to
    Flora Martirosyan

    12:18, 13 May, 2013

    YEREVAN, MAY 13, ARMENPRESS. Singer Sona Aroyan plans to introduce the
    songs of the People's Artist of the Republic of Armenia Flora
    Martirosyan at the concert held in France in the end of the current
    year. Aroyan stated this from Barcelona in a conversation with
    "Armenpress". A big charity concert dedicated to the memory of
    People's Artist of the Republic of Armenia Flora Martirosyan was held
    in AUDITORI CAN ROIG I TORRES Concert Hall in Barcelona, Spain on May
    11. Singer Sona Aroyan performed Flora Martirosyan's songs.
    "Following Your Traces" concert program lasted about one hour and 50
    minutes.

    Among other things Sona Aroyan noted that the audience was dancing at
    the course of the concert and many of them visited the backstage to
    say that they are very impressed with the musict.

    Flora Martirosian was born on February 5, 1957 in Gyumri to a family
    of an athlete and a housewife. She inherited her vocal skills from her
    mother. Martirosian studied at the Gyumri Musical 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. Martirosian founded the Komitas Musical Academy in Los
    Angeles in 2002.

    People's Artist of the Republic of Armenia Flora Martirosyan was the
    founder of the International Musical School after Komitas, "Artists
    for Peace" Charity Organization and the initiator of the cultural
    movement "Never Again".

    The singer passed away on November 20, 2012. Complications of a
    gallbladder surgery are thought to be the cause of her decease. The
    singer was buried in Yerevan's Komitas City Pantheon on December 12,
    2012.

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