Orchestra “chamber music” Comedas plays pieces of Armenian heritage for opera audiences

The Orchestra chamber music Comedas of the Armenian Youth Association in Aleppo, led by Sarkis Iskanian, held a musical evening at the opera theater of Dar Al-Assad for Culture and Arts.

The musical evening’s program was characterized by a combination of pieces of music from the East and the West. The orchestra was keen to familiarize the audience with the Armenian heritage music, where the musician and author Comedas is considered as godfather through his work in the collection of more than three thousand songs.

It is noteworthy that the Comedas Orchestra was established in 2005. It regularly holds musical evenings in Damascus, Aleppo and Lattakia. Its musicians, who number up to 25, participated in several workshops under the supervision of musicians and international experts.

Comedas, who lived between 1935-1869, was the first to collect, write, and revise the Armenian traditional and popular songs and melodies and present them to the world. He is also considered a witness to the genocide that the Armenians were subjected to at the hands of the Ottoman occupation. His body was transported  to Yerevan and was buried in the cemetery of the great.

Inas Abdulkareem