PanARMENIAN.Net - In 2016, the cooperation between VivaCell-MTS and the duo Ars Lungo has been as successful as before. In the passing year, in the framework of the second part of Anthology of Armenian Chamber Music project the duo has released 4 albums, which feature piano trios of nine Armenian composers. The records cover the rich tradition of Armenian academic music embodied in the works by both composers of the second half of the 20th century such as Grigor Hakhinyan, Andrei Babayev, Arax Matevossyan, and those representing our days, including well known Mikhayil Kokzhayev, Vache Sharafyan, Simon Hovhannissyan and still-undiscovered talents of the younger generation such as Hayk Melikyan, Davit Balasanyan and Anahit Kostanyan.
Committed to the traditions of dissemination and preservation of Armenian music both in the country and beyond, Ars Lunga has also had numerous concerts at the special events hall of the Casfesjian Center For The Arts performing piano trios of Armenian composers, a joint recital with the Composers’ Union of Armenia dedicated to the jubilee of composer Garegin Grigoryan (whose piano trio upon the initiative of the duo is in the stage of notation and is getting prepared for record), concerts in the framework of the Talalyan Brothers’ Festival, which involved events celebrating the jubilees of Arno Babajanyan, Edvard Mirzoyan and Mikhayil Kokzhayev. The piano trio of the latter was performed live with participation of brilliant violinist of Armenian decent based in Germany Tigran Hakhumyan.
One of the main purposes of the Anthology of Armenian Chamber Music is to i...
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