Scholarly Meetings

On November 5 at 4:00 PM, a lecture entitled “Klaus Huber and His Opera Schwarzerde” will take place at the Komitas Museum-Institute.

Speaker: Levon Hakobyan, Doctor of Art Studies, Head of the Music Theory Department at the State Institute for Art Studies (Moscow).

Swiss composer Klaus Huber (1924–2017) was one of the most prominent figures of the European post-war avant-garde. His entire legacy can be viewed as a grand cosmic (ecumenical), social, and cosmopolitical utopia, grounded in the ideas of a select group of thinkers, mystics, and poets from different eras and countries.

Nevertheless, Huber remained consistently committed to a complex, radically dissonant, and, in the truest sense of the word, avant-garde musical language, incompatible with any kind of embellishment.

From 1989 onwards, the prose, poetry, and biography of Osip Mandelstam acquired particular significance for Huber. This creative trajectory culminated in his opera Schwarzerde (2001, Basel).

Admission is free.

Speaker: Marianna Tigranyan, PhD in Art Studies, Associate Professor

What do the concepts "nation," "myth," "national school of composition," "music drama," and "total work of art" entail? What is the connection between Richard Wagner and Komitas Vardapet? What historical prerequisites and trends existed in the 19th and 20th centuries, and what responses did they have within the scope of the aforementioned composers' work?

These questions and their possible answers constitute the material for the lecture to be held at the Komitas Museum-Institute on July 30 at 16:00.

Speaker: Sahak Galoyan.

The lecture will conclude with performances by the "Geghard" Vocal Ensemble (Artistic Director: Mher Navoyan, Conductor: Anahit Papayan).

Admission is free.

On July 10 at 4:00 PM, the Komitas Museum-Institute will host a lecture-meeting with internationally acclaimed Paris-based composer Michel Petrossian.

Michel Petrossian is a composer of concert and film music and a laureate of the Queen Elisabeth International Composition Competition. His oeuvre includes an opera, a ballet, concertos, numerous chamber works, as well as the scores for En fanfare and the last four films by Robert Guédiguian.

Admission is free.

Speaker: Artur Shahnazarian 

Speaker: Ruben Kneasian 

Argentine-Armenian duduk player of Parisian organizations (JAF, AGBU)

Free admission