Romantic Sounds From Armenia via France to Amsterdam: Bach, Komitas, Chopin & Debussy, Marina Gevorgyan – piano, 14 juli 16h

Boekomslag van ‘Op Zoek naar Jou’ door Arayik Mirzoyan

Arayik Mirzoyan

Arayik Mirzoyan werkte tot 2023 als Secretaris van de Ambassade van Armenië in Nederland. In 2022 verscheen zijn eerste boek ‘Liefde en Dromen’. ‘Op Zoek naar Jou’ is de tweede gedichtenbundel die Arayik publiceert. Op dit moment richt Arayik zijn aandacht op onderwijs en de Armeense cultuur.

Marina Gevorgyan

Pianist Marina Gevorgyan was born in Yerevan in 1978. She has graduated from Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory in 1999, the piano department with the specialization of concert performer, soloist of chamber ensemble, accompanist and piano teacher. In 2009 she has passed Master courses in the Music Conservatory of Giuseppe Verdi in Milan. She has also served as the Deputy Director of “Komitas Museum-Institute” from 2015 to 2021. Since 2016 she has been working as a Piano teacher at Yerevan Specialized Music School after Alexander Spendiaryan.

Pianist Marina Gevorgyan has worked as a Senior Specialist in the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of the Republic of Armenia from 2006 to 2008 in the Department of the cooperation and analyses of youth policy and in the Department of International Relations and Cooperation with Diaspora. She has also worked as an Assistant at the Department of Special Piano in Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory from 2000 to 2008, as an Inspector of Piano Department from 2005 to 2006 and Department of Foreign Affairs from 2003 to 2005. From 2000 to 2005 she has been the host of the “Elite Circle” TV musical program, where she organized about 200 programs with famous musicians from all over the world, such as Vl. Spivakov, K. Orbeljan, Ed. Mirzoyan, Pier Dominic Ponel, Malcolm Messiter, Murad Annamamedov, Al. Lubimov, A. Saryan , A. Davtyan, I. Tigranova and many others.

From 1995 to 2009 Marina Gevorgyan has had piano performances in the Verdi Concert Hall of Music Conservatory of Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, in the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra at Aram Khachaturyan Concert Hall in Yerevan, in the Armenian National Chamber Orchestra at the Komitas Chamber Music Hall in Yerevan and in the Artsakh State Chamber Orchestra in Stepanakert, Republic of Artsakh. From 2017 to 2019 she had piano performances in the Concert Hall of Komitas-Museum Institute, Aram Khachaturian Museum in Yerevan.

Illustratie door Alina Grigoryan uit ‘Op Zoek naar Jou’