YEREVAN, JUNE 9, NOYAN TAPAN. Narek Hakhnazarian, a student of the Moscow Conservatory's college was awarded the first prize and 15 thousand U.S. dollars monetary award among 17 violicellists participated in the cellists' international competition after Aram Khachatrian held in Yerevan for the first time. The latter was also awarded the special prize of the State Philharmonic Orchestra of Armenia: the young cellist will have possibility to perform a concert program in 2007 with the State Philharmonic Orchestra of Armenia. As Anna Ter-Hovakimian, the Responsible Secretary of the competition informed the Noyan Tapan correspondent, second and third prizes defined by the organization committee were equally shared. Representative of Latvia Ruslan Vilensky and representative of Turkey Indira Rahmatulla who is Uzbek in origin became the second prize winners. They were given 5000 dollars each. The third prize, 2500 dollars to each, was equally shared between Tigran Muradian (Russia) and Sergey Kosemian (Armenia). By the way, nobody was awarded 2000 dollars of encouriging prize. Denis Zhdanov representing Russia was awarded special prizes defined for "Spectator's Sympathy" and "Best Performance of 20th Century Work." Cezar Martinez Bourguet (Mexico) got the "Best Performance of Chamber Sonat" prize, Jeanne Maisonhaute (France) got the "Promising Participant" prize, and Artur Avanesov (Armenia) got the "Best Concertmaster" prize. The best prize defined by the jury was awarded to Spanish representative Guillermo Pastrana.

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