IV International Music Festival to open in Yerevan

The IV International Music Festival will be kicked off on Friday in Armenian capital of Yerevan with ceremony of opening to be held in the evening at the Aram Khachaturian Philharmonic Concert Hall. The festival’s directors are Honored Person of Arts and Culture of Armenia Eduard Topchian and a violoncellist Aleksandr Chaushian from Great Britain.

The festival will feature world-known performers, musicians and conductors from Germany, Britain, Italy, France, Austria, Russia, Belgium, Japan and Armenia. Included in the cultural program are works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Mozart and Shostakovich.

The Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra will play works by Brahms and Shostakovich under Eduard Topchian’s baton this evening at the opening ceremony.

Within the framework of the festival, concerts in honor of Aleksandr Haroutyunian and on the occasion of the Independence Day of Armenia will be performed.