State Youth Orchestra of Armenia

Special concert of State Youth Orchestra of Armenia as part of the Lublin Edition of the 21^st Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival, celebrating the 700^th anniversary of the city of Lublin.

State Youth Orchestra of Armenia

Sergey Smbatyan - conductor

Bartosz Koziak - cello

Concert Programme:

Ghazaros Saryan: Symphonic Images

Aram Khachaturian: Concerto-Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherezade Op. 35

The year of 2015, the 9th year of the creation of the orchestra, was a successful cultural year for the State Youth Orchestra of Armenia. In the course of those years the orchestra had already gained the high appreciation and trust of the audience by its professional performance, goal- orientation and diligence. The evidence of such success is the large-scale projects, unique concert programs and effective participation in international festivals held throughout the year. But the biggest and the most responsible project of the Youth Orchestra was the concert titled “Revival” held on April 24 by the “24/04” world orchestra, which was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. More than 120 musicians from 43 countries got together on one stage to call the world through music to condemn genocides. The musicians performed the pieces of the Armenian composers of the last one hundred years. The concert of SYOA in Lublin is to honour the 650^th anniversary of the Armenian Diaspora and 25^th anniversary of the establishment of Polish-Armenian relations. The concert is held under the Honorary Patronage of Mr. Edgar Ghazaryan, the Ambassador of Armenia to Poland.

Bartosz Koziak, graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin Music University in Warsaw and Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris. Laureate of e.g. the 3rd Witold Lutosławski International Cello Competition, the Isang Yun Competition in Tongyeong (Korea) and the Mykola Lysenko International Competition in Kiev, Ukraine. He concerted at, e.g. Konzerthaus in Berlin, Rudolfinum in Prague, Cité de la Musique in Paris, Teatro Politeama in Palermo, or National Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw. He collaborates with the most eminent personalities of the Polish music world. He is a member of the “Cellonet” Warsaw Cello Group.

Sergey Smbatyan graduated from the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory, where he attended conducting lessons of Yuri Davtyan, and the legendary Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow in 2009.

In 2005, when only 18 years old, Smbatyan founded the State Youth Orchestra of Armenia, and became the Orchestra's Artistic Director and Music Director.

Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival took place, for the first time in history, in 1997 and commemorated the 170th anniversary of the death of the creator of the Symphony No. 9. It became a permanent and important element of the cultural life of Europe. Europe for Festivals, Festivals for Europe EFFE (Gent) appreciated its importance and admitted it to the Association in October 2001.

The programme of every edition of the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival (held for the first 7 years in Krakow, and since 2004 in Warsaw) is different and shows achievements of European music in an interesting and varied manner. Every edition shows the music of Beethoven from different perspectives and allows the listeners to perceive his inspirations, the impact of his music on creators from different eras and the place of Beethoven in the world of contemporary art and in contemporary world alike.