KHACHATUR ABOVYAN ARMENIAN STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY

Within the scope of a series of concerts headed “Remember” organized on the initiative of the Pedagogical University Department of Music the ASPU students performed in their native university.

On this occasion, the ASPU students from different academic years of the Department of Music, Faculty of Culture made their performances; among them were the winners of international competitions folk instruments and brass band with their Artistic Directors LevonAvagyan and KolyaMartirosyan, the clarinet and the duduk quartets with the Artistic Director SevadaShahoyan and Professor HrachyaNazaryan, the Jazz band and the RA Honoured Art Worker, Professor YervandYerznkyan, the Dhol Ensemble with their Artistic Director ArazOrdinyan, Qanun band with their Artistic Director, Lecturer HamestouhiSargsyan as well as the piano pieces and recitations.

“We remember, we must live and make others live, keep and maintain; this is our home, our country,” this is what the participants called for with their music by summarizing the event with pieces symbolizing the victory.

In addition, it was a real surprise for those present to see the US singer Daniel Decker who arrived to Yerevan with his sisters and brothers to be with the Armenian nation on the centenary of the Genocide and to receive Armenian citizenship.

“I was not born Armenian, but I chose to be Armenian”,  mentioned the US singer- thefriend of the Armenian nation and assured that he was going to continue to search for ways through his art to persuade the World to acknowledge and condemn the Armenian Genocide.

Later on, Daniel Decker did an unprecedented act and performed “Kilikia” in Armenian.

The Head of the ASPU Department of Music AraGevorgyan emphasized the importance of the concert from several perspectives; on the one hand people from regions were willing and needed to listen to high-class music that could be so rarely heard in our days, on the other hand this was the best occasion for the students to perform.

“100 years passed but the perpetrators have not be convicted yet; with the nationalistic, traditional and at the same time modern musical pieces we would like to once again call for the attention of people living in different regions of the country- we remember!”, statedAraGevorgyan and added that soon he would introduce the audience with his latest music video “Remember” in English language.