Concerts

Yervand Yerkyanyan – 75։ Jubilee Concert

On October 23, at 19:00, at the Komitas Chamber Music Hall “Tagharan” Ancient Music Ensemble presents a jubilee concert dedicated to the 75th anniversary of composer, Honored Artist of the Republic of Armenia, and the ensemble’s long-standing Artistic Director, Yervand Yerkanyan.

The concert features the Geghard Vocal Ensemble (Artistic Director — Mher Navoyan, Conductor — Anahit Papayan), the Yerevan State Chamber Choir (Artistic Director and Conductor — Kristina Voskanyan), the Komitas Choir of the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory (Conductor — Gayane Sahakyan), and the “Tagharan” Ancient Music Ensemble (Artistic Director and Conductor: Sedrak Yerkanyan, Honored Cultural Worker of the Republic of Armenia).

Soloists:

• Tereza Voskanyan: organ
• Hasmik Harutyunyan: blul
• Sedrak Yerkanyan: piano
• Lusine Markosyan: mezzo-soprano
• Irina Zakyan: sporano

The program consists of vocal, instrumental and choral compositions and arrangements by Yervand Yerkanyan.

Ticket Prices: 2000, 3000, 5000 AMD

The concert is intended for audiences aged 6 and above.
For information call: (010) 52-67-18
Ticket office: (010) 58-60-46, (055) 22-01-20

On October 24, at 7:00 PM, at the Komitas Chamber Music Hall, as part of the Vahagn Stamboltsyan Fourth International Organ Festival, a solo concert by world-renowned organist, composer, and major contributor to organ music Guy Bovet (Switzerland) will take place.
Guy Bovet is one of the most distinguished masters in the contemporary organ world; he has composed 220 works for the organ and recorded 50 albums.
He serves as a visiting professor at numerous prestigious European music academies, including those in Berlin, Vienna, Oslo, Helsinki, Dublin, London, and Marseille.
 
In the program:
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750): Prelude and fugue in D minor BWV 539 (with a first Prelude from Violin Sonata, BWV 1001, arrangement by Guy Bovet)
- Canarios (anonymous Spanish piece from 18th century)
- Francisco Correa de Arauxo (1584 - 1654): Tiento de medio registro de tiple de segundo tono (№ 59) 
- Anonymous (18th and 19th century): 3 folk pieces from Mexico;
•    Marcha
•    Oaxaqueña
•    Pinotepa
- Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924): 
•    Piccolo Walzer 
•    Scossa Elettrica 
- 3 folk pieces for house organ (18th century, from the Swiss Toggenburg area)
- Guy Bovet (b. 1942): Fandango mio  

Ticket Prices: 3000 - 8000 AMD

The concert is intended for audiences aged 6 and above.

For information call: (010) 52-67-18 
Ticket office: (010) 58-60-46 

On October 28 at 7:00 PM, the Armenian State Chamber Choir will perform a concert entitled “Dedication to Komitas” at the Komitas Chamber Music Hall.

Artistic director and principal conductor օf the Choir: People’s Artist of the RA, Robert Mlkeyan

Foreword: Doctor of Arts, Professor Mher Navoyan

In the program:
Komitas Vardapet: Wedding Songs. Cycle A
•    Heaven and Earth
•    My Dear Mother
•    Groom’s Mother, Come Out
•    Welcome, Groom
•    Who Came to the Wedding?
•    I’ll Take Her to the Mountains
Soloists: Sofya Sayadyan (Soprano), Vrezh Gharibyan (Tenor)
Armenian folk dance-songs. Cycle B
•    My Lover’s Name is Balasan
•    Maid, your Name is Shushan
•    I Stayed at the Road to the Threshing-Floor
•    Pumpkin Grows on the Wall
•    The Dark-Faced Maid
•    My Sweetheart is a Rose
•    Oh, my Tender Love
Soloists: Sofya Sayadyan (Soprano), Vrezh Gharibyan (Tenor)
•    Coolness in the Air
•    Shoror of Moush
Lusine Grigoryan (Piano)
Edgar Hovhannisyan:
•    I Sow Wheat
•    Sweet Dream
Yervand Yerkanyan:
•    Navzikeh
Tigran Mansurian:
•    Legend for Father
Melik Mavisakalyan: Folk Song Arrangements
•    Mountains of Moush
•    Come my Love
David Haladjian:
•    Kekondas
•    I’m Beating the Mortar
Robert Mlkeyan: Folk Song Arrangements
•    Nino
Soloist: Vrezh Gharibyan (Tenor)
•    Mayram
Soloists: Razmik Baghdasaryan (Tenor), Mavr Mkrtchyan (Tenor), Abel Abelyan (Baritone), Aram Avetisyan (Baritone)
•    Bingyol
Soloists: Razmik Baghdasaryan (Tenor), Mavr Mkrtchyan (Tenor), Abel Abelyan (Baritone), Aram Avetisyan (Baritone)

Ticket Prices: 3000 - 5000 AMD

The concert is intended for audiences aged 6 and above.

For information call: (010) 52-67-18 
Ticket office: (010) 58-60-46 

PERGOLESI: “STABAT MATER”

On October 29, at 19:00, at the Komitas Chamber Music Hall, the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia and the Yerevan State Chamber Choir, under the direction of Vag Papian, will present works by two distinguished composers of the Baroque era.

• Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia: Vag Papian
• Artistic Director and Choirmaster of Yerevan State Chamber Choir: Christina Voskanyan
   

The program:

1. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: “Stabat Mater”
2. Johann Sebastian Bach: Oboe Concerto in D minor, BWV 1059R

Soloist:
   Martine Varnik: oboe (Estonia)
   Nelli Qalashyan.soprano
   Manush Harutyunyan.mezzo-soprano

Ticket prices: AMD 3000-7000 AMD

The concert is suitable for audiences aged 6 and above.
For information: (010) 526-718
Box Office: (010) 586-046, (055) 220-120

On November 4 at 19:00, a solo recital by Svetlana Navasardyan—People's Artist of the Armenian SSR and one of the most brilliant and influential figures of the Armenian piano school—will take place at the Komitas Chamber Music Hall.

Program:
•    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Fantasia in D minor
•    Robert Schumann: Davidsbündler tänze
•    Frédéric Chopin: Mazurkas

Ticket Prices: 3000 - 7000 AMD

The concert is intended for audiences aged 6 and above.

For information call: (010) 52-67-18 
Ticket office: (010) 58-60-46 

Three decades of musical exploration, artistic discovery, and memorable encounters on stage.

The Yerevan State Chamber Choir invites you to celebrate the 30th anniversary of its founding at a special jubilee gala concert.

The concert will take place on November 5 at 7:00 PM at the Komitas Chamber Music Hall.

Prepared especially for this occasion, the concert programme will explore the multilayered world of Armenian music, from Komitas to contemporary Armenian composers, bringing together tradition and contemporary musical thought.

Artistic Director and Choirmaster of the Yerevan State Chamber Choir: Kristina Voskanyan.

Special Guests: Tigran Hamasyan and Dialog Project

Soloists։
• Nelli Kalashyan
• Zhanna Davtyan
• Gurgen Poghosyan
• Jenny Nazaryan

In the program:
• Komitas:
“Sona Yar”, “Stars of the Sky (Skla, Skla)”, “Hey, Gyul Em”, “Tsaghik Unem Nranji”, “Aravotun Bari Lus”, “Kaghhan”, “Shorora, Anush Yar”, “Khumar Parke”,
• Edgar Hovhannisyan:
“Tsoren Em Tsane”,
• Tigran Mansuryan:
“Aragil”,
• Armenui Karapetyan:
“Yekav Garun”,
• Tigran Hamasyan:
“Hayrapetakan Maghterg”, “National Repentance Anthem”,
• Vahagn Babloyan:
“Amran Gisher”, “Jur Kuger”,
• Performed together with Dialog Project:
“Hov Lini”, “Chinar Es”, “Kakavik”

The founder of the choir is Harutyun Topikyan, a Meritorious Artist of Armenia and conductor, who led it from 1996 to 2021. His work played a key role in widely performing and recording Komitas's music. Paying tribute to this legacy, the anniversary concert program kicks off with the works of Komitas.

Ticket Prices: 4000 - 10000 AMD

The concert is intended for audiences aged 6 and above.

For information call: (010) 52-67-18 
Ticket office: (010) 58-60-46 

On November 7, at 19:00, a concert dedicated to the 170th anniversary of Makar Ekmalyan will take place at the Komitas Chamber Music House, as part of the Vahagn Stamboltsyan Fourth International Organ Festival.
The concert will feature performances by organists Anna Bakunts, Harutyun Tagvoryan, Tereza Voskanyan, Armen Aghajanyan, Anna Arustamyan, Lusine Arutyunyan, Hovhannes Manukyan, and Arpine Harutyunyan, as well as soprano Rita Petrosyan.

Program:
- Anna Bakunts
Makar Ekmalyan: "The Lord's Prayer" ("Hayr Mer")
Grigor Arakelyan: Four Preludes from the "Mashtots" Cycle
- Harutyun Tagvoryan
Makar Ekmalyan: "The Sasnctus" (Surb-Surb), Melody of Resurrection(I kuys I vimen) 
Lusine Grigoryan. "Supplication", lyrics by Komitas, composition for organ by Arsen Harutyunyan
Soloist: Rita Petrosyan (soprano)
- Armen Aghajanyan 
Makar Ekmalyan: "Amen, Holy is The Father"
Vache Sharafyan: "Afterglow" 
- Tereza Voskanyan 
Makar Yekmalyan: "We are filled with Thy goodness", arr.  by V. Stamboltsyan
Grigor Narekatsi/Yervand Yerkanyan: Himn of the Mother of God, Himn of the feasts of the Cross
- Lusine Arutyunyan  
Makar Ekmalyan: Paskhal Hymn
Mikhail Kokzhayev: "Simple Melody"
- Hovhannes Manukyan 
Makar Yekmalkyan: "O Deep Mystery"
Hovhannes Manukyan: Two Choralеs  "Jesus Christ our Saviour", "Dedication to Santa Virgin Mary".
- Anna Arustamyan
Makar Ekmalyan: "Lord, Have Mercy"
Tigran Hambaryan: Prelude
- Arpine Harutyunyan
Makar Yekmalyan: "Horjam", arrangement by Arno Babajanyan
Anonymous: "You Are Like an Incense Tree" 
Arno Babajanyan: "Vocalise"
Organ transcriptions by Arpine Harutyunyan.

Ticket Prices: 3000 - 5000 AMD

The concert is intended for audiences aged 6 and above.

For information call: (010) 52-67-18 
Ticket office: (010) 58-60-46