Little Singers of Armenia

Little Singers of Armenia (founded in November 6, 1992) is a children's chorus, consisting of 40 girls aged 8 to 18.[1] The choir is actively performing in Armenia and abroad. It has participated in many international festivals, governmental projects and charity concerts. The founder and artistic director of the choir is Tigran Hekekyan.

Little Singers of Armenia
Choir
Little Singers of Armenia
Founded1992
FounderTigran Hekekyan
GenreVaried
Members40 girls aged 8–18
Music directorTigran Hekekyan
Websitehttps://www.facebook.com/LSAchoir

Description

Choir was founded in 1992 under the auspices of the Armenian Little Singers International Association and Yerevan Municipality, bringing together talented youths from Yerevan and the surrounding provinces. This choir has become an international sensation and its repertoire is extremely varied including sacred, medieval, renaissance, classical, jazz, and contemporary music.

The choir "Little Singers of Armenia" and its soloist has performed extensively in United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Russia, Latvia, Poland, Greece, Cyprus, Japan, Egypt, South Africa, Canada, 20 states of the United States of America, Denmark and the Netherlands.

Activities

Aside from competitions, the choir has also participated in various international festivals including, but not limited to, European Festival of Youth Choirs (Basel, Switzerland, 1995, 2014), Hong Kong and Beijing International Festivals (China, 1999), Golden Ferry (Sochi, Russia, 2001), Dimitria International Festival (Thessaloniki, Greece, 2002), Armenian American Choral Festival Song of Unity (Armenia, 2004, 2006), Children's Friendship on the Planet (Moscow, Russia, 2010), and Let the Future Sing International Festival (Stockholm, Sweden, 2012), 5th Children Choir's Festival (Thessaloniki, Greece, 2015), Choral festival in Fribourg (Switzerland, 2016), "Abu-Gosh" choral festival (Israel, 2017), International Children's Choir Festival (Dresden, Germany, 2018), Tbilisi Choral Music Festival (Georgia, 2018).

Also the choir participated in EXPO 2000 (Hannover, Germany) and the Sixth World Symposium on Choral Music (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 2002).

The Little Singers of Armenia participated in many significant state programs, such as the Cultural Days of Armenia in Russia (2001, 2006), the 80th anniversary of Charles Aznavour in Paris (2004) and the Year of Armenia in France (2007), Solemn ceremony of the visit of Pope Francis to Armenia (2016), Solemn opening ceremony of the seventeenth summit of the Francophonie (2018), in the scopes of the 150th anniversary of Komitas Vardapet, the Little Singers of Armenia choir is invited to Gewandhaus Children's Choir in Leipzig, and Lithuanian Ugnelė Children's Choir (2019).

Awards

The choir has had many competitive achievements, such 2 silver medals (“Eisteddfod”) Roodeport, South African Republic, 1993, silver medal (“Eisteddfod”) Llangollen, UK, 1994, a Grand Prix (youth division), 2 golden and silver medal (“Golden Gate” International Children's Choral Festival, San Francisco, USA, 1995).

The Little Singers of Armenia were recognized as a Choir of the European Union, nominated as Cultural Ambassador by the European Federation of Choirs in 2001 and awarded the Leonardo da Vinci silver medal by the European Academy of Natural Sciences. In 2002 the choir is recognized as one of the best choirs in the world by IFCM. The choir has also received some of the highest awards bestowed by the President of Armenia as well as the country's Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Science and Education, and the Mayor of Yerevan.

Recordings

The choir has several recordings, among those is Parsegh Ganatchian: Complete Works (USA, 2000), 5-20 century sacred music (Armenia, 2002). The choir has also released a triple-disc album, Fiat Lux (USA, 2009) and "Robert Petrosyan's songs written for the Little Singers of Armenia choir" (Armenia, 2011). The album Furusato (USA, 2012) is dedicated to concert tour of Japan, 20 Years of Music (USA, 2013) is dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the choir, I remember and demand (Yerevan, 2015) dedicated to centennial of Armenian Genocide, Benjamin Britten-Choral works for children choirs (Switzerland, 2016), Heartful song for Japan (Japan, 2017), The little Singers of Armenia at the Berlin Philharmonic Concert Hall, The little Singers of Armenia at Victoria Hall, The little Singers of Armenia at St. Michael Church, Fribourg, The little Singers of Armenia at the Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, The little Singers of Armenia at Tchaikovsky Concert Hall (2019).

Many of these CDs have won national and international awards.

References
  1. Arita, Eriko (2012-07-13). "The Armenian Little Singers are making it big". The Japan Times. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
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