“Estonian accents of §Yerevan perspectives”

Authors

  • Svetlana Koryun Sarkisyan Yerevan State Conservatory

Keywords:

Neeme Jarvi, “Hortus Musicus”, Andres Mustonen, Estonian, music, “Yerevan Perspectives”, Estonian National Symphony orchestra.

Abstract

PhD Doctor , Professor of YSC Svetlana KoryunSarkisyan. - “Estonian accents of §Yerevanperspectives¦”.The article describes the two leading groups of Estonia ledby Estonian National Symphony Orchestra's conductorNeemae Jarvi and the “Hortus Musicus" early music ensemble,led by Andres Mustonen. In the article it is also mention thearrival to the Armenia with tour in the frameworks of the“Yerevan Perspectives International” Festival (artistic directorsStepan Rostomyan and Sona Hovhannisyan). In addition to theevaluation of their performances, the author as well emphasizesthe significance of the Armenian-Estonian musical ties thatspread and developed especially since the second half of the 20thcentury  

 

Author Biography

Svetlana Koryun Sarkisyan, Yerevan State Conservatory

studied at the YSC and completed postgraduate studies atthe St. Petersburg State Conservatory, where she obtained her PhD in 1975 with a thesis entitled "Development ofArmenian Music in the 60s years of the 20th Century. Later, in 1999, she earned the title of Dr. Hab. of Musicology fromthe Moscow State Conservatory with a thesis entitled" Armenian Music in the Context of the 20th Century. From 1974 tothe present, she has been Professor of Chair of Music Theory at the YSC. She has also lectured at music academiesand conservatories in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Vilnius, Lvov, Maikop. She has participated at 68 symposia in Armenia,Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Great Britain, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Lithuania. Author of books: Problemsof Contemporary Armenian Music. Yerevan, 1983; Armenian Music in the Context of the 20th Century. Research. Moscow,2002; Armenian Music and Composers. London-Yerevan, 2004 (In English); Aram Khachaturyan, Reference Book.Yerevan, 2004 (In Russian, Armenian, English); At the Boundary of Centuries. Music and its Spheres. Moscow, 2014 (InRussian, Armenian, English, French, German) and about of 500 scientific articles in Armenian, Russian, Ukrainian,Georgian, Polish, Bulgarian, Hungarian, German, Croatian, Czech, Lebanon collections and journals. She has writtenarticles on Armenian music and musicians in The Music Encyclopedia and Musical Dictionary (Moscow), The New GroveDictionary of Music and Musicians (Ed. by S. Sadie, London, 1980), Grove Dictionary of Opera (London, 1992),Contemporary Composers (Ed. by P. Collins, B. Morton, London-Chicago, 1992), The New Grove Dictionary of Music andMusicians II. Rev.Ed. (Ed. by S. Sadie & J. Tyrrell, London, 2001) and Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Ed. byL. Finscher, Kassel), edited and compiled a few monographs and collections of scientific articles. Member of Union ofArmenian Composers (Yerevan, 1975), International Music Union (Moscow, 2004). She was awarded the HonouredWorker of Culture of Armenia (Yerevan, 2009), Honoured for Polish Culture (Poland, 2013).  

Published

2018-12-15

How to Cite

Sarkisyan С. К. (2018). “Estonian accents of §Yerevan perspectives”. Musical Armenia, 2(55), 41–44. Retrieved from https://yerazhshtakanhayastan.am/index.php/ma/article/view/113

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 55 (2018): Musical Armenia

Section

Articles