To the memory of my parents

(к 90-летию со дня рождения Н. Матевосян)

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the memory of her parents, concertmaster Nelly Matevosyan and Tadevos Asmaryan. After graduating from the Piano Department, Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory, N. Matevosyan and T. Asmaryan worked at their beloved Conservatory for many years. Nelly worked at Spendiaryan school as a teacher and concertmaster in cellists' and violinists' classes all her life, for 40 years, and as a concert-master of the Choir of Opera Theater for 39 years, T. Asmaryan changed workplaces very often. During his life, he worked in musical performances held in Spendiaryan, Sundukyan and Stanislavsky theaters. However, his most important workplace was the Etchmiadzin Seminary, where he worked for 20 years at the invitation of His Holiness Vazgen I. St. Komitas liturgy performed by the male choir of Saint Gayane Monastery was recorded on the CD "Melodiya". For T. Asmaryan the performance of Komitas Liturgy in 25 cities of Armenia, Tbilisi and France became the fulfillment of his main life mission.