YEREVAN TO HOST LAST FAREWELL TO CELEBRATED SINGER

16:49 ~U 10.12.12

The last farewell to legendary Armenian singer Flora Martirosyan will
be held in capital Yerevan on Tuesday morning.

According to a press release by the Ministry of Culture, the funeral
service will be held in the Aram Khachatryan concert hall from 12:00
until 14:00 pm. The singer will be buried in the Yerevan City Pantheon
later in the day.

An outstanding representative of the Armenian singing art, Martirosyan
passed away on November 20. With her amazing voice and high mastery,
she moved the hearts numerous Armenian and foreign music lovers for
many years.

The singer was born on February 5, 1957 in Armenia’s second largest
city, Gyumri. After leaving a local musical school and a college, she
pursued her musical education at the Komitas State Conservatory,
majoring in folk song.

The Armenian Folk Instruments Ensemble, where Martirosyan was a
soloist from 1976 until 1991, played a crucial role in the singer’s
career.

She then continued her work in the United States (in the 1990s),
committing herself to the preservation of the Armenian nation’s
identity and the building of cultural bridges between the homeland and
diaspora.

Back to Armenia in the late 1990s, she was the headmaster of Gyumri’s
Armen Tigranyan musical school for four year (1997-2001). From 2002
till 2008, Martirosyan became the founder and chief of the Burbank and
Hollywood Musical schools.

In 2006 and 2007, she organized the Komitas International Song Contest
in Yerevan brining together around 2,000 Armenian children from
Armenia and foreign countries.

Martirosyan was the founder of the Artists for Peace Charity
Foundation, which attracted world-renowned singers and Hollywood
super-stars to raise a voice of protest against the Armenian Genocide
and all crimes against humanity under the slogan Never Again.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress