Admission with a book! 

Date: 17 February, 2012

Start time: 19:00

Venue: Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall 

Date: February 24, at 19:oo

Venue: Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall 

Date and time: February 25, 2012 at 8pm. Seating starts at 7:15pm

 Where: Aram Khachaturian Hall 

 Format: A mirror event will be taking place at the MIT Media Lab on the same day at 11am local time.

More details see at: http://luys.am

Date: February 11, 2012 at 19:00;

Venue: Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall

07 February, 2012 at 19:00

Venue: Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall 

 The concert will be conducted by Maestro Eduard Topchjan. 

 Date: February 3, 2012 at 19:00;

Venue: Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall 

Alte Oper Concert Hall 

Program: 

Borodin: Opera “Prince Igor” Polovtsian Dances

Dvorak: Symphony No. 9

Weber: Clarinet Concerto 

 Conductor: Eduard Topchjan 

Bratislava, Slovakia

 Reduta Concert Hall 

 Program: 

Khachaturian: Violin Concerto 

Khachaturian: “Spartacus” suite

Shostakovitch: Symphony No. 5

 Soloist: Anush Nikoghosian

Conductor: Eduard Topchjan 

The APO Japan Tour – November 2008

7 November, Tochigi
Concert Hall – Tochigi Prefectural Culture Center
Borodin – Opera “Prince Igor” Polovtsian Dances
Tchaikovsky – Violin concerto D-Dur, op. 35
Violin: Catherine Manoukian
Dvorak – Symphony No.9 “From the New World”

8 November, Nigata
Concert Hall – Nigata City Performing Arts Center Ryutopia
Borodin – Opera “Prince Igor” Polovtsian Dances
Tchaikovsky – Violin concerto D-Dur, op. 35
Violin: Catherine Manoukian
Dvorak – Symphony No.9 “From the New World”

9 November, Nigata
Concert Hall – Nigata Symphony Hall
Khachaturian – Ballet suite “Gayane”
Tchaikovsky – Violin concerto D-Dur, op. 35
Violin: Catherine Manoukian
Borodin – Opera “Prince Igor” Polovtsian Dances
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No 5

11 November, Shizuoka
Concert Hall – Shizuoka Shimin Bunka Kaikan
Tchaikovsky – Violin concerto D-Dur, op. 35
Violin: Catherine Manoukian
Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No 2
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No 5

12 November, Aichi
Concert Hall – Aichi Prefectural Art Theater Concert Hall
Khachaturian – Ballet suite “Gayane”
Tchaikovsky – Violin concerto D-Dur, op. 35
Violin: Catherine Manoukian
Rimsky-Korsakov – Symphonic suite “Sheherezade”

13 November, Hamamatsu
Concert Hall – Actcity Hamamatsu
Tchaikovsky – Violin concerto D-Dur, op. 35
Violin: Catherine Manoukian
Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No 2
Piano: Hiroyo Imagawa
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No 5

14 November, Suginami
Concert Hall – Suginami Koukaido
Tchaikovsky – Violin concerto D-Dur, op. 35
Violin: Catherine Manoukian
Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No 2
Piano: Hiroyo Imagawa
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No 5

15 November, Echizen-Shi
Concert Hall – Echizen-Shi Bunka Center
Tchaikovsky – Violin concerto D-Dur, op. 35
Violin: Catherine Manoukian
Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No 2
Piano: Hiroyo Imagawa
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No 5

16 November – Takamatsu
Concert Hall – Sunport Hall Takamatsu
Borodin – Opera “Prince Igor” Polovtsian Dances
Tchaikovsky – Violin concerto D-Dur, op. 35
Violin: Catherine Manoukian
Dvorak – Symphony No.9 “From the New World”

18 November – Seitoku
Concert Hall – Seitoku University Kawanami Koujyun Memorial Hall
Borodin – Opera “Prince Igor” Polovtsian Dances
Khachaturian – Violin Concerto
Violin: Catherine Manoukian
Dvorak – Symphony No.9 “From the New World”

19 November – Koriyama
Concert Hall – Koriyama City Cultural Center
Borodin – Opera “Prince Igor” Polovtsian Dances
Tchaikovsky – Violin concerto D-Dur, op. 35
Violin: Catherine Manoukian
Dvorak – Symphony No.9 “From the New World”

20 November – Shinjuku
Concert Hall – Shinjuku Bunka Center
Tchaikovsky – Violin concerto D-Dur, op. 35
Violin: Catherine Manoukian
Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No 2
Piano: Hiroyo Imagawa
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No 5

21 November – Musashino
Concert Hall – Musashino Civic Cultural Center
Khachaturian – Ballet suite “Gayane”
Khachaturian – Violin Concerto
Violin: Catherine Manoukian
Rimsky-Korsakov – Symphonic suite “Sheherezade”

22 November – Tokyo
Concert Hall – Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall
Khachaturian – Ballet suite “Gayane”
Tchaikovsky – Violin concerto D-Dur, op. 35
Violin: Catherine Manoukian
Rimsky-Korsakov – Symphonic suite “Sheherezade”

23 November – Tokyo
Concert Hall – Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall
Borodin – Opera “Prince Igor” Polovtsian Dances
Khachaturian – Violin Concerto
Violin: Catherine Manoukian
Dvorak – Symphony No.9 “From the New World”

APO participated in three festivals (two in Czech republic and one in Slovakia) and was included in the regular concert season program at Meistersingerhallen in Nuremberg, Germany.

In all festivals the performance of APO was very much appreciated. Particularly it was seen in the second part of the performance, where the orchestra plays without a soloist. The public was applauding standing and calling APO for “bis”.

PRAGUE
The APO concert at Prague Autumn Musical Festival was held on September 29 at Dvorak Hall of Rudolfinum. The concert program included

1. Excerpts from Spartakus ballet and Violin concerto of Aram Khachaturian
2. Symphony No 6 “Pathetique” by Pyotor Ilyich Tchaikovski

The public was very much impressed and called the orchestra for “bis”.

BRNO
The second was Brno 41st International Music Festival Mruavski Podzim (Muravian Autumn) festival at Janackovo divadlo hall in which APO performed on October 2. The program was

1.Excerpts from Spartakus ballet and Violin concerto of Aram Khachaturian
2.Symphony No 6 by Dmirtri Shostakovich

APO definitely surpassed all the expectations of the organizers and audience.

BRATISLAVA
The Bratislava Music Festival is also with old traditions and was holding its 42nd event this year. APO performed on October 3 at Slovak Philharmonic concert hall with the following program.

1. Violin concerto No 1 by Dmitri Shostakovich
2. Symphony no 2 by Aram Khachaturian

The performance of APO was welcomed with ovations.

NUREMBERG
The concert was scheduled on October 5. The concert program included.Excerpts from Spartakus ballet

Brilliant Fantasy on the theme of Bizet “Carmen” for Saxophone and Orchestra by Francois Borne
Rhapsody for Saxophone and Orchestra by Claude Debussy
Symphony no 6 by Dmitri Shostokovich

Press review – Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra
Concert on 2nd October 2006
Janacek Theatre
E.Topchjan – conductor
S.Jaffe – violin

The Armenians received the warmest welcome from the Brno audience

A week ago the audience of the Moravian Autumn festival in Brno had a chance to hear the concert of “exotic” guest orchestra – the Armenian Philharmonic with Maestro Eduard Topchjan and the young violinist from Berlin Sophia Jaffé.
The orchestra disposes with a rich sound and advanced virtuosity of the musicians, which they fully used in the music of “their” composer Aram Khachaturjan, and in the Schostakovitsch 6th Symphony as well.
In the Spartacus ballet suite the orchestra used more the deep masculine registers, which corresponded with the expressive and rhythmically explicit structure of the composition. While in the Schostakovisch symphony they created deeper contact with the audience. / It is a pity that this contact was interrupted by the inappropriate ovations between the movements…/.

The opening Adagio caught us with the typical Shostakovitsch´s meditation. The quick movements were full of instrumentation colours and expressional nuances, very well was described author’s endeavour for joy with the undertone of grotesqueness and irony. The slight nuances were perfectly performed with entirety and guided by the conductor’s functional and modest gestures, and with feeling of the conductor’s clear conception.

The highlight of the evening was the performance of the charming soloist. She cooped with the Khachaturjan´s technically demanding and large violin concerto with marvellous spontaneousness. She performed the concerto with a “male” expression and inwardness in the slow movement – in spite of the fact that the composer ´s message is more of academic and technical value, and also not very coherent.
The concert ended with standing ovations, which we can experience only after really excellent performances.

PRAVO, 9.10.2006

Programm: A. Tigranian Prologue to the opera “Anoush”
Partevian Excerpts from Oratorio
Soloist:   Karine Avetisyan (soprano)
G. Hakhinian Cantata “Sayat Nova”
Soloist:   Zemfira Danielyan (soprano)
G. Rossini Il Barbiere di Seviglia, “Concertanto”
C.Orff “Finale”, Carmina Burana
G. F. Handel Hallelujah chorus from “Messiah”
W. A. Mozart “Dies Irae” from Requiem
G. Verdi Chorus of the enslaved Jews: “Va, Pensiero” from Nabucco
Ch. F. Gounod Waltz Chorus (Ainsi qui le brise) from Faust
Aydinian Excerpts from Patarag
T. Chukhajian Excerpts from Leblebigi
Soloist:   Rafael Melkonyan (tenor)
Ed. Hovhannissian Erebouni-Yerevan