gALAN HOVHANESSh CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
This
orchestral group was founded in 1984 by the teachers of Avet Gabrielianfs
In 1995
Yerevan City Council gave this orchestra the status of state orchestra and
since then it has been known as the Mayoral Chamber Orchestra of Yerevan City.
In 2002
the orchestra was renamed to gAlan Hovhanessh Chamber Orchestra. The orchestra
is paying a special attention to avangard music. The name of the orchestra was
after an American Armenian Composer, Alan Hovhaness, who has deeply studied the
oriental music (
The orchestra has more than 50 pieces of Armenian music in its
repertoire and he was the first interpreter and performer the most of them.
The
orchestra is one of the most active performing orchestras of
The orchestra was in concert tours in
Georgia (1985,1987), Latvia (1989), took part in gFriendship Concertsh in
Yerevan, where teachers and students from musical schools of Tbilisi, Baku,
Rostov on Don, Riga and Tsesis have performed as soloists with the orchestra.
In 1998 the orchestra had a concert tour to UAE. The orchestra was invited to participate
in the International Festival gBach 2000h,
In 2001 the orchestra was invited to participate in Baroque Opera
Festival in
In 2003 they participated in Third International Musical Festival –
Traditional and Sacred Music-Heritage of Humanity (
In 2004
they had an active participation in gSpring Festivalh organized by the Union of
Armenian Composers.
In 2004
the orchestra participated in the concert dedicated to the 75th
birthday celebration
of Avet Terterian.
In 30th
November with the initiative of Ministry of Culture of
Meruzhan
Simonian was born in 1947 in
As a
conductor, Meruzhan Simonian has performed in
In 1999
he fulfilled the opera performance of Mascagnifs gCavalleria Rusticanah and in
2000 Rossinifs gIl Barbier de Sevigliah opera. He also conducted concerts with
Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Yerevan Youth Symphonic Orchestra and Yerevan
Chamber Orchestra
Since
1995 he has been a lecturer in the department of Opera-Symphonic Conducting and
a conducting lecturer at Chamber orchesra of the Komitas State
Conservatory.
Since
1978 Mr. Simonian appears in Republic and International press.
He is
the author of the book gThe Story of the Big Fiery Butterflyh which served as a
base for Eduard Hayrapetianfs Symphony No. 3 (The Big Fiery Butterfly). In 2001
the primiera of the symphony was performed by the Armenian Philharmonic
Orchestra by conducting of Mr. Simonian.
ANTONIO VIVALDI (1676-1741)
Le quatro stagioni
Concerto for 1, 2, 4 violins
Concerto for cello in a-moll
Sonata for cello No 5 e-moll
Madrigalesco
Violin concerto G-dur
Concerto No 1 in D Major (RV 549)
Concerto No 4 in E minor (RV 550)
JOHANN SEBESTIAN BACH (1685-1750)
Violin Concerto No 1 in a-moll
Concerto for two violins in d-moll
Piano Concerto No 1 in d-moll
Piano Concerto No 5 in f-moll
Orchestra Suite No 2 in h-moll
The
HENRY PURCELL (1659-1695)
TOMASO ALBINONI (1671-1751)
JOSEPH HAYDN (1732-1809)
Piano Concerto D-dur
Rondo
Cello concerto C-dur
Cello concerto D-dur
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791)
Serenata Notturna, KV 239
Concerto for Violin No 3 G-dur
Concerto for Violin No 4 D-dur
Rondo for violin G-dur
Concerto-symphony for violin and viola
Concerto for piano No 8 C-dur
Concerto for piano No 9 Es-dur
Concerto for piano No 13 C-dur
Concerto for piano No 14 Es-dur
Concerto for
piano No 20 d-moll
Concerto for piano No 23 A-dur
EDWARD ELGAR (1857-1934)
IAN SIBELIUS (1865-1957)
PAUL HINDEMITH (1895-1963)
funf Stucke op.44
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975)
SAMUEL BARBER (1910-1981)
BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913-1976)
Cantata Misericordium
JACQUELINE FONTYN (b.1930)
gVent dfEsth concerto pour accordeon
classique ou Bayan ou Knopfakkordeon et ensemble de 12
archest
ges ist ein
Ozeanch Doppelkonzert fur Flot Cembalo und Streicher (
VICTOR CARBAJO (b. 1970)
ARMENIAN COMPOSERS
KOMITAS (1869-1935)
Armenian Miniatures (arranged by
Aslamazian)
ALAN HOVHANESS (1911-2000)
AVET TERTERIAN (1929-1994)
Quartet No 2 (Premiera)
GEGHUNI CHTCHIAN (b.1929)
TIGRAN MANSURIAN (b.1935)
gcAnd them i nas in time againcg for viola and kamerorchestra
MARTOUN ISRAELIAN (b.1938)
Sonet
gRhythmush Sancti Thomas Aquinatis
(Premiera)
4 songs by Metsarenz for soprano and
chamber orchestra (Premiera)
concerto for cello and chamber orchestra
EDUARD SADOIAN (b. 1938)
Concerto for flute and chamber
orchestra (Premiera)
EMMA MIHRANIAN (1940-1991)
SIMON HOVHANNISIAN (b. 1940)
RUSLAN GALSTIAN (b. 1941)
Adajio (Premiera)
NOUBAR ASLANYAN (b. 1943)
YURI HAROUTYUNIAN (b. 1944)
MICHAEL COCJAEFF (b.1945)
Four Karabagh Songs (Premiera)
To Victims
Moonlighting (Premiera)
ASHOT ZOHRABIAN (b. 1945)
Concert-Elegia
Lux fulgebit (Premiera)
RUBEN SARGSYAN (b. 1945)
gAll That Remainedh for String
orchestra and Harpsichord (Premiera)
STEPAN SOUKIASSIAN (b. 1946)
Pastorale (Premiera)
Memory (Premiera)
HRACHYA MELIKIAN (b. 1947)
DAVIT SAKOIAN (b.1947)
Ouverture of gChristh opera
Elegia No 2 for flute and chamber
orchestra (Premiera)
SOUREN ZAKARIAN (b. 1947)
gPost Scriptumh (Premiera)
VAHRAM BABAYAN (b. 1948)
Requiem (Premiera)
gHymneh fur Klavier und
Straichorchestra (
Poliphonie der Stein von
Friedhelmlaach (Premiera)
EDUARD HAYRAPETYAN (b. 1949)
Concerto for Cello No 2
Alto concert No 1 (Premiera)
Concerto for Fagotto
Dubbleconcert for Violin and Viola
(Premiera)
ERVAND ERKANYAN (b. 1951)
Concerto for Violin No 2
Symphoniet No 2 (Premiera)
ARMEN SMBATYAN (b. 1954)
VARDAN ACHEMIAN (b. 1956)
Poem-Fantasy for flute (Premiera)
NARINE ZARIFIAN (b. 1958)
ANNA GARSOIAN (b. 1961)
Thoughts (Premiera)
ASHOT GHAZARIAN (b. 1961)
Music for 20 strings (Premiera)
VACHE SHARAFIAN (b. 1966)
Alan Hovhaness Chamber Orchestra
Meruzhan
Simonian
Artistic
Director and Conductor
Violin 1
Marina Kotelevskaya
Gevorg Nahapetyan
Kristina Simonyan
Anzhela Najaryan
Arsen Murazyan
Violin 2
Spartak Petrosyan
Ruzanna Torosyan
Violeta Manukyan
Tereza Nacharyan
Alto
Vahe Broutyan
Anna Esayanc
Seda Odabashyan
Cello
Narek Avagyan
Garnik Engibaryan
Contrabass
Vilen Karapetyan
Cembalo
Tatevik Esayanc
ALAN HOVHANESS
CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA
MANAGER
gMANANAh PUBLIC BENEFICIAL
ORGANIZATION
President: ALEXAN ZAKYAN
Tel/Fax + 374 1 39 54 67
Mobile +374 9 33 36 84
E-mail: mananapbo@netsys.am
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