Yeraz Art Photo Shoot
Aram Khachaturian House-Museum, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Yeraz Art 2006
Have literally stepped in the door after shooting 200 plus photos of some very talented and young classical musicians at the Aram Khachaturian House-Museum in Yerevan for Yeraz Art. Raffi Meneshian, Executive Director of Yeraz Art recently blogged about the organization’s purpose on Cilicia.com’s Life in the Armenian Diaspora.
The basic premise of Yeraz Art is very simple. There are a bunch of talented kids in Armenian who are musicians. We will assist in finding them venues around the world under the “Yeraz Art” and “Armenia” moniker to help market and promote them and the country through concerts and international competitions. Along the way, we will fund their education and help with purchasing and upgrading their instruments. When they hit 18, they graduate from our program and we will attempt to get them into the best music schools in the world like Juliard, etc. Their education would be covered by our organzation.
Most of the photos are of the kids performing, but there are also some portraits such as the one at the top of this post. Anyway, nice to be able to listen to some good music and work at the same time. More as of when.
Aram Khachaturian House-Museum, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Yeraz Art 2006
What a great project and vision. All the best to Raffi Meneshian.
Comment by artyom — March 4, 2006 @ 6:29 am
Artyom, I was really impressed by the kids. Great music. Real talents.
Like I said, nice to work AND listen to a free concert at the same time
Comment by Onnik — March 6, 2006 @ 7:47 pm
I hear you about the free concert. Last summer when I was in Armenia, I wento a book fair with my wife over at the Opera, and they had a string quartet doing a phenomenal job. Could care less for the books, perhaps for the first time in my life!!! then took a groupf of American professor and journalist friends to the symphony to listen to Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto, and they were mesmerized by the quality of the musicians and the building, but the shockerfor them was the 2 dollars ticket price. Listen I am planning a trip for this summer to Armenia with a prof of mine on a research project about ethnic conflicts in the Caucasus and Karabakh. I was wondering if we could meet up while there? Shoot me an email.
Comment by artyom — March 6, 2006 @ 11:44 pm
Lovely pictures, Thanks!
Comment by Gurgin Bakircioglu — August 21, 2007 @ 9:37 pm