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DILIJAN CONCERT SERIES CELEBRATES ITS FIFTH SEASON

by  Charles Fierro

For any arts organization, the fifth year is a significant landmark.  At that point they have demonstrated viability, established their reputation and developed a following.  Under the visionary leadership of its directors, Vatsche Barsoumian and Movses Pogossian, the Dilijan Chamber Music Series in Los Angeles has accomplished all this and more.  It is now one of the jewels of the Southern California arts scene.

This is due to the consistent quality of their performances as well as to their unique mission:  to present the classics of Western classical chamber music to Armenian-American audiences and to bring new Armenian music to a wider public.

No finer example of their success could be imagined than their concert of April 25 at Zipper Hall.  (more…)

LOS ANGELES – The inaugural concert of the UCLA Camarades Ensemble, a conductorless string orchestra of internationally acclaimed faculty and top string students, will take place on Thursday April 22 at Schoenberg Hall. Professors Guillaume Sutre and Movses Pogossian (violins), Richard O’Neill (viola) and Antonio Lysy (cello) will combine forces with the students of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music in an ambitious and diverse program of works by Purcell, Mendelssohn, and Beethoven.

Winner of several competitions and a 2^nd year Graduate student Ji Young An will be the soloist in the Mendelssohn D Minor Concerto for Violin and Strings, performing on the historic UCLA-owned Duke of Alcantara Stradivarius violin. One of the most towering works in the history of music, Beethoven’s Grosse Fugue, will be preceded by the Cavatina from Quartet op. 130, and will be led by the UCLA String Faculty: Guillaume Sutre, 1^st violinist of the renowned Ysaye Quartet; Movses Pogossian, Tchaikovsky Competition Prizewinner and Artistic Director of the Dilijan Chamber Music Series; Richard O’Neill, Avery Fisher Prize Winner and Artist Member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and Antonio Lysy, acclaimed soloist and chamber musician, and Artistic Director of Incontri in Terra di Siena Festival in Italy.

The Camarades Ensemble will also perform at the high profile concert at Zipper Hall in downtown Los Angeles on April 25, at the season finale of the acclaimed Dilijan Chamber Music Series (http://dilijan.larkmusicalsociety.com). For information about future events, and to be added to the mailing list of the Friends of Strings at UCLA, please visit www.uclastrings.com.

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music (Tim Rice, Director) is a nationally recognized leader and a trend-setter in innovative and collaborative music performance and education, aspiring to educate the whole student through productive collaborations between performance and scholarship, and a cross-cultural, global understanding of the art of music. (Http://www.schoolofmusic.ucla.edu)

When:         Thursday, April 22, 2010, 8:00 PM

Where:           Schoenberg Hall, UCLA Schoenberg Music Building

Web site:    http://uclastrings.com

Inquiries:    (310) 825-4761

Tickets: $12, $5 UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)