| Alexander Arutiunian
Celebrations of his 85th anniversary
By Jean-Pierre Mathez
Armenia has celebrated the 85th anniversary of one of his best known composer with a series of concerts given in the capital Yerevan, but also in London, Friday the 21st of October 2005 at 19h30, in the charming and prestigious Wigmore Hall, build in 1901 by the famous piano maker Bechstein. (Concert organised by RP Musical Managements Regina Parkev: rpmusical@btopenworld.com) |
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| Alexander Arutiunian was born September 23, 1920, and has been in touch with the greatest composers and musicians of the ex-Soviet Union and of the world, from Aram Khachaturian to Dimitry Shostakovitch, from Mstislav Rostropovich to Benjamen Britten and many others. He has expressed his strong talent in numerous symphonic, solo and chamber music works. His famous trumpet concerto established his world reputation. First performed in 1950 by late Timofey Dokschidser, the long celebrated principal trumpet of the Bolchoï Theater in Moscou, the work had been written in 1943, during the Second World War II for Zolak Vartasarian, a student of the great Tabakov in Moskow, who just became principal trumpet of the Yerevan Opera orchestra and who would have performed the premiere had he not been killed during the war. |
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Alexander Arutiunian
© Jean-Pierre Mathez |
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