Upcoming performances

EMBASSY OF ARMENIA- WAITING LIST- CALL 202-625-2361

2225 R STREET, NW
FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 2012 AT 7:30 PM-

IN HONOR OF THE 20TH ANNIVERSITY OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN THE US AND ARMENIA 

NAREK ARUTYUNIAN, CLARINET
MARIKO FURUKAWA, PIANO

 19-year-old clarinetist Narek Arutyunian won First Prize in the 2010 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and was also awarded the Meridian Symphony Prize to perform as soloist with the orchestra, and was invited to perform in the Embassy Series in Washington, DC, the Brownville Concert Series (NE) and at the Usedom Music Festival in Germany.  Next season, Mr. Arutyunian will be presented in his recital debut in the Young Concert Artists Series in New York, sponsored by YCA’s Rhoda Walker Teagle Concert Prize, and at the Kennedy Center, as well as in Boston at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Mr. Arutyunian has performed widely in Europe, with concerts at the Louvre Auditorium in Paris and the Palazzo del Principe in Genoa, and as soloist with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra in the Czech Republic, the Kaliningrad Philharmonic in Russia, and with the Moscow Philharmonic, Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra and State Symphony Orchestra.  Mr. Arutyunian’s clarinet is a personal gift of the conductor and violinist Vladimir Spivakov. Works of  Poulenc, Francaix, von Weber, Denisov, Gershwin, Horovitz, Schoenfeld. This is a great rising star in the musical world- $80/ including Armenian buffet /wine