Alexander Arutiunian News
Armenian composer, pianist
- piano
- opera, classical music
- Soviet Union, Armenia
- composer, music teacher, pianist, film score composer
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2022-04-08 14:24:40
The Aznavoorian Duo, Chicago-raised sisters cellist Ani Aznavoorian and pianist Marta Aznavoorian, join together to create this debut. The album presents works by Komitas Vartabed, Aram Khachaturian, Arno Babajanian, Avet Terterian, and Armenian contemporary composers Serouj Kradjian, Alexander Arutiunian, and Vache Sharafyan. It will also feature a world premiere recording of a new piece […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2022-03-26 05:25:00
Classical Music News of the Week, March 26, 2022
Chicago Area's 49th Annual Bach Week FestivalThe Chicago area’s 49th annual Bach Week Festival will present concerts in Chicago and Evanston, Illinois, from April 24 to May 12, 2022.Performances will include the Baroque music festival’s first mainstage period-instrument program; a concert of Johann Sebastian Bach sacred and secular vocal masterworks, including the great Magnificat of 1723; the return of international piano sensation Sergei Babayan in an all-Bach solo recital; and a concert of Bach keyboard and violin concertos paired with a double-flute concerto by a Bach contemporary, composer-flutist Johann Joachim Quantz.“What’s striking, to me, about this year’s festival is the presence of works we’ve never performed before, alongside compositions that have been mainstays over the decades,” says Richard Webster, Bach Week’s music director since 1975. “We’re always on the lookout for ways to refresh and renew the festival.”Webster played harpsichord and organ at Evanston’s first Bach Week in 1974, which he […]
2022-01-19 00:41:28
Black Professional Classical Musicians Festival Presents a Stellar Slate of Chamber Setting Gems January 17, 2022 Charleston SC —Fresh off of sold-out performances in Sacramenta CA this past fall, the Colour of Music Festival (COMF) announces the ninth annual Colour of Music Festival February 2-5, 2022 at historic Charleston locations showcasing leading black classical artists from the U.S., France, and Colombia, South America. The 2022 series builds on the expansion of the Festival’s chamber music and brings back its original ‘Virtuosi’ co-ed moniker begun in 2014. The slate of stellar artists will perform compositions ranging from baroque to modern, including works by several noted Black female composers―Florence B. Price, Margaret Bonds, Valerie Coleman, and Jessie Montgomery. Since 2013 the Colour of Music Festival has brought international, national, and regional classically trained black musicians of African descent to share their musical talents, knowledge, and inspiration to Charleston. Since […]
2021-06-26 06:37:03
It should be essential repertoire: former BBC New Generation Artist trumpeter Simon Höfele chats about the 20th-century works for trumpet and piano on his new disc on Berlin Classics
Simon Höfele (Photo credit Joy Dana) The young German trumpeter, Simon Höfele, has a new disc out on the Berlin Classics label. Titled New Standards, the disc features music for trumpet and piano by six significant 20th-century composers, Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), Karl Pilss (1902-1979), Georges Enescu (1881-1955), Paul Hindemith (1895-1963), Jean Françaix (1912-1997) and Alexander Arutjunjan (1920-2012) with pianist Elisabeth Brauß. The disc is a companion piece to Simon's first disc for Berlin Classics, Standards (released in early 2020), where he played the Haydn and Hummel trumpet concertos, along with the trumpet concerto by Arutjunjan and A Quiet City by Aaron Copland (1900-1990), accompanied by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Duncan Ward (a testament to Simon's time as a BBC New Generation Artist). I caught up with Simon recently to find out more about the repertoire on his new disc. […]
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