ARMENIAN CHILDREN RETURN FROM INTERNATIONAL MUSICAL
CONTEST-FESTIVAL HELD IN UAE WITH FIRST PRIZES
19-05-2004 13:50:00 | Armenia | Culture
YEREVAN, May 19 (Noyan Tapan). Ruben Asatrian, the
conductor of the philharmonic orchestra of Armenia, told NT's
correspondent that Sona Barseghian and Anush Nikoghosian,
students of the Yerevan musical school after P. Chaikovsky,
returned from the international musical contest-festival held in
the United Arab Emirates in early May with first prizes. Anush
Yavrumian, a student of the same school, was awarded with a
special prize for out-contest performance on violoncello.
According to the conductor, boys and girls aged under 16
from the Czech Republic, Poland, Egypt, Korea and Russia
participated in the contest. "Our children were 14 and 15, but
they received first prizes with absolute advantage," stressed
the maestro. Girls performed with the most complicated programs,
including the works of Chaikovsky, Mozart, List, Babajanian and
Hayden.