ArmenPress
April 28 2004
VLADIMIR SPIVAKOV TO VISIT ARMENIA
YEREVAN, APRIL 28, ARMENPRESS: The conductor of Moscow Virtuosi
ensemble, Vlidimir Spivakov, will visit Armenia next month. Spivakov
will perform a solo concert at Aram Khachatrian concert hall on May
5, Armenian association on cultural ties with foreign countries
reported. He will perform Brahms, Shnitke and Straus.
Spivakov is the winner of the International Tchaikovsky
Competition, Paganini International Violin Competition and Montreal
Competition, Vladimir Spivakov enjoys an international career as one
of Russia’s preeminent violinists. He also is a respected conductor
who founded the renowned Moscow Virtuosi, and since 1999 he has been
Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Russian National
Orchestra.
Vladimir Spivakov has been decorated with Russia’s highest prize,
the National Cultural Heritage Award, and is Ambassador of the Arts
at the World Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He established the
International Charity Foundation in 1994 to offer creative and
financial support to talented young people and needy children from
his homeland. He is married to Armenian.