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ARAM GHARABEKIAN FUNERAL SET FOR JAN. 29
Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
Maestro Aram Gharabekian
YEREVAN-Funeral services and burial of Maestro Aram Gharabekian, who
passed away on January 10 in Los Angeles, will be held on Wednesday
January 29 in Yerevan. The announcement was made following a meeting
of a government-appointed state funeral committee headed by Armenia's
Minister of Culture, Hasmik Poghosyan.
Funeral services will be held from noon to 2 p.m. local time at the
Aram Khachatourian Concert Hall. Burial will take place at the Yerevan
Municipal Cemetery.
A memorial service was held last Saturday at Glendale's St. Mary's
Church, where a capacity crowd comprised of Gharabekian's relatives,
friends and colleagues gathered to pay their last respects to the
late Maestro.
The Mass, officiated by Western Prelate Archbishop Moushegh
Mardirossian featured several eulogies, among them Gharabekian's
colleague Maestro Tigran Mansourian and his nephew Armen Avak Avakian.
Born in 1955 in Tehran, Gharabekian graduated from the New England
Conservatory in Boston with a Master's degree in Composition,
and continued his postgraduate studies in Musical Phenomenology at
Mainz University, Germany. He studied conducting with Franco Ferrara
in Italy, and in 1979 became one of the few conducting pupils of
the legendary Sergiu Celibidache in Germany. He was also granted a
fellowship to study composition and conducting under Jacob Druckman
and Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts.
>From 1997 until 2010 Gharabekian served as Music Director of the
National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia, leading this critically
acclaimed ensemble on tours to Greece, the United Arab Emirates,
Cyprus, Switzerland, England, Russia, Lebanon, Georgia, Germany,
France, Canada and the U.S., where in 2001 they made their Lincoln
Center debut as part of their second North American tour.
In 1983 Gharabekian founded the Sinfonova Chamber Orchestra in Boston
and served as its principal conductor until 1991.
More recently, Gharabekian was the conductor and artistic director of
the Open Music Society Foundation, a multifaceted arts organization
dedicated to fostering musical excellence, established in Los Angeles.
In 2012, Gharabekian and his Open Music Orchestra received enthusiastic
praise for their performance at the Space Shuttle Endeavor's arrival
ceremony at Los Angeles International Airport.
Read more about Gharabekian's myriad accomplishments in the In Memoriam
section of Asbarez.com.
http://asbarez.com/?s=in+memoriam&x=0&y=0
http://asbarez.com/118782/aram-gharabekian-funeral-set-for-jan-29/
Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
Maestro Aram Gharabekian
YEREVAN-Funeral services and burial of Maestro Aram Gharabekian, who
passed away on January 10 in Los Angeles, will be held on Wednesday
January 29 in Yerevan. The announcement was made following a meeting
of a government-appointed state funeral committee headed by Armenia's
Minister of Culture, Hasmik Poghosyan.
Funeral services will be held from noon to 2 p.m. local time at the
Aram Khachatourian Concert Hall. Burial will take place at the Yerevan
Municipal Cemetery.
A memorial service was held last Saturday at Glendale's St. Mary's
Church, where a capacity crowd comprised of Gharabekian's relatives,
friends and colleagues gathered to pay their last respects to the
late Maestro.
The Mass, officiated by Western Prelate Archbishop Moushegh
Mardirossian featured several eulogies, among them Gharabekian's
colleague Maestro Tigran Mansourian and his nephew Armen Avak Avakian.
Born in 1955 in Tehran, Gharabekian graduated from the New England
Conservatory in Boston with a Master's degree in Composition,
and continued his postgraduate studies in Musical Phenomenology at
Mainz University, Germany. He studied conducting with Franco Ferrara
in Italy, and in 1979 became one of the few conducting pupils of
the legendary Sergiu Celibidache in Germany. He was also granted a
fellowship to study composition and conducting under Jacob Druckman
and Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts.
>From 1997 until 2010 Gharabekian served as Music Director of the
National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia, leading this critically
acclaimed ensemble on tours to Greece, the United Arab Emirates,
Cyprus, Switzerland, England, Russia, Lebanon, Georgia, Germany,
France, Canada and the U.S., where in 2001 they made their Lincoln
Center debut as part of their second North American tour.
In 1983 Gharabekian founded the Sinfonova Chamber Orchestra in Boston
and served as its principal conductor until 1991.
More recently, Gharabekian was the conductor and artistic director of
the Open Music Society Foundation, a multifaceted arts organization
dedicated to fostering musical excellence, established in Los Angeles.
In 2012, Gharabekian and his Open Music Orchestra received enthusiastic
praise for their performance at the Space Shuttle Endeavor's arrival
ceremony at Los Angeles International Airport.
Read more about Gharabekian's myriad accomplishments in the In Memoriam
section of Asbarez.com.
http://asbarez.com/?s=in+memoriam&x=0&y=0
http://asbarez.com/118782/aram-gharabekian-funeral-set-for-jan-29/