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ARMENIAN CULTURE MINISTRY IN TALKS WITH ARAM GHARABEKIAN'S FAMILY
14:26 13/01/2014 " CULTURE
Armenia's Culture Ministry is in talks with the family of renowned
conductor Aram Gharabekian about whether or not his body will be
moved to Armenia. Panorama.am was informed about it by the Ministry.
Aram Gharabekian died Friday in the United States at the age of 58.
He was an Armenian conductor, former Artistic Director and Principal
Conductor of the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia. In 1983,
Gharabekian founded and until 1991 directed and conducted the Boston
SinfoNova Orchestra.
Gharabekian was formerly the Principal Guest Conductor of the NRCU
Symphony Orchestra in Kiev. He led them in recording their first
Compact Disc, featuring Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, which
was released in 1996 on Russian Disc's "Audiophile Series." Following
a critically acclaimed guest appearance with the Ukrainian National
Symphony Orchestra in 1991, Maestro Gharabekian was invited by the
Ukrainian Minister of Culture to assume the position of Artistic
Advisor and Conductor.
Active as a guest conductor, Gharabekian had been the Principal
Guest Conductor of the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, and appeared
with the Sinfonietta Munchen. He also led the Ukrainian National
Symphony, the Ukrainian State Opera and Ballet, the West Ukrainian
Philharmonic, Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Shreveport Symphony
Orchestra, Fresno Philharmonic, Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra and
Hangzhou Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. On New Year's Eve in 1999
Gharabekian led an orchestra and chorus in Hangzhou, China of 300
musicians from 6 countries in a televised millennium celebration
concert featuring Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
He graduated from the New England Conservatory in Boston, then
continued his postgraduate studies at Mainz University in Germany. He
studied conducting with Franco Ferrara in Italy, and in 1979 became
one of a few conducting pupils of the famous Sergiu Celibidache in
Germany. Gharabekian also studied composition and conducting under
Jacob Druckman and Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood Music Center in
Massachusetts.
Source: Panorama.am
14:26 13/01/2014 " CULTURE
Armenia's Culture Ministry is in talks with the family of renowned
conductor Aram Gharabekian about whether or not his body will be
moved to Armenia. Panorama.am was informed about it by the Ministry.
Aram Gharabekian died Friday in the United States at the age of 58.
He was an Armenian conductor, former Artistic Director and Principal
Conductor of the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia. In 1983,
Gharabekian founded and until 1991 directed and conducted the Boston
SinfoNova Orchestra.
Gharabekian was formerly the Principal Guest Conductor of the NRCU
Symphony Orchestra in Kiev. He led them in recording their first
Compact Disc, featuring Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, which
was released in 1996 on Russian Disc's "Audiophile Series." Following
a critically acclaimed guest appearance with the Ukrainian National
Symphony Orchestra in 1991, Maestro Gharabekian was invited by the
Ukrainian Minister of Culture to assume the position of Artistic
Advisor and Conductor.
Active as a guest conductor, Gharabekian had been the Principal
Guest Conductor of the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, and appeared
with the Sinfonietta Munchen. He also led the Ukrainian National
Symphony, the Ukrainian State Opera and Ballet, the West Ukrainian
Philharmonic, Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Shreveport Symphony
Orchestra, Fresno Philharmonic, Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra and
Hangzhou Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. On New Year's Eve in 1999
Gharabekian led an orchestra and chorus in Hangzhou, China of 300
musicians from 6 countries in a televised millennium celebration
concert featuring Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
He graduated from the New England Conservatory in Boston, then
continued his postgraduate studies at Mainz University in Germany. He
studied conducting with Franco Ferrara in Italy, and in 1979 became
one of a few conducting pupils of the famous Sergiu Celibidache in
Germany. Gharabekian also studied composition and conducting under
Jacob Druckman and Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood Music Center in
Massachusetts.
Source: Panorama.am