Born in 1903 Aram Khachaturian showed early signs of a love of music, but his formal training did not begin until 1922, when he was admitted to the famous Gnessin Institute in Moscow and continued…
YEREVAN, JUNE 5, ARMENPRESS. Deep Purple’s lead vocalist Ian Gillan, Black Sabbath’s guitarist Tony Iommi are in Yerevan to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Rock Aid Armenia, also known in earlier stages as Live Aid…
The Permanent Mission of Armenia to the United Nations hosted a reception and a photo exhibition entitled “Armenia’s Velvet revolution” at the UN headquarters. The event displayed photographs showcasing the progress of the peaceful civic…
On the occasion of Charles Aznavour’s 95th anniversary, the Paris Municipality, in cooperation with the Aznavour Foundation, organized the opening of Charles Aznavour plaque on the building where the Aznavouryans settled and where Charles Aznavour…
The winners of the International Opera Awards were presented at a gala ceremony in London’s Sadler’s Wells theatre yesterday, April 29. Asmik Grigorian took the Female Singer of the Year award for her role as…
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Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan received today the late Charles Aznavour’s son Nikolas Aznavour – co-founder and Executive Director of the Aznavour Foundation. Issues related to the activity of the Foundation and especially the first cultural…
Caretaker Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s The Opposite Side of the World (also known as The Other Side of the Earth), a novel he wrote during 2008-2009, has topped the ARMENPRESS Yerevan Bestseller list of Armenian…
Armenian Wikipedia passed the 250,000 articles threshold Wikipedia is a multilingual free encyclopedia. The Armenian Wikipedia articles are written through reliable sources. President of Wikimedia Hayastan NGO Susanna Mkrtchyan, told “Artsakhpress” that she is very…
Armenia’s newspaper published in Turkey, Luys, now has its own TV channel – the first ever Armenian channel to be broadcast on Turkish television. Luys TV first broadcast was aired on January 6, Sputnik Armenia…