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“KOHAR” TO PARTICIPATE IN “ONE NATION, ONE CULTURE”
ALL-ARMENIAN FESTIVAL
YEREVAN, MAY 30, ARMENPRESS: “KOHAR” Symphony
Orchestra and Choir of Gyumri with artistic director
and conductor Sebouh Apkarian will be participating in
the context of “One Nation, One Culture” All-Armenian
Festival which will kick off in Armenia on June 23 and
last till June 30.
The official closing of the festival, which will take
place at the Republic Square of Yerevan, is entrusted
to “KOHAR”.
At the end of last April, Kremlin State Theatre
witnessed KOHAR’s latest accomplishment during two
consecutive concert days. Almost 12,000 audiences were
present during these concerts, whereby KOHAR presented
its trademark “All Time Armenian Favourites” program
with 150 performing artists, musicians, choir members,
soloists, dancers and a pantomime. The two-day events
were labeled by Armenian Muscovites as an
unprecedented Armenian festivity of genuine music and
performance.
KOHAR Symphony Orchestra and Choir has performed in
Nicosia, Beirut and Istanbul. Its “All Time Armenian
Favoutires” DVD and CD is the first Armenian musical
DVD through its rendition and recording of Armenian
music with interactive and state-of-the-art features
including subtitles of the songs, which has won the
International Intermedia Silver Award in Hamburg,
Germany and the “Anoush” Achievement Award during the
7th Armenian International Awards in Hollywood, USA.
The second DVD of KOHAR’s “All Time Armenian
Favoutires” new program will be released by end of
this year, and will include live recordings from
Istanbul and Moscow concerts.