The “Komitas Quartet” from Armenia celebrates its centenary in Aleppo

Aleppo (ST): The Komitas Quartet, coming from Armenia, performed a musical evening on the stage of the Armenian Public Benevolent Association, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of its founding as the oldest string quartet that has been in operation for 100 years now.

The quartet, along with musicians Edward Tadevosyan, Suzy Yeritsyan, Alexander Kozimyan, and Angela Sargsyan, presented a collection of pieces of international and Armenian music on violin, viola, and cello, in a special style that toured all over the world.

The quartet’s official, Edward Tadevossian, indicated in a statement to SANA news correspondent that the band, during its hundred-year career, considered Syria an important artistic station and a humanitarian forum that brought together different cultures, and that it had been present there repeatedly, adding that the band had placed Syria among the priorities of its concert schedule for the centenary of its foundation, given the appreciation it shows to the creators, its openness to diverse arts and its contributions to preserving Armenian art from extinction in the diaspora.

Member of the Armenian Public Charitable Society, Dr. Sarkis Askanian, underlined the importance of the concert in pumping new blood into the cultural efforts that Aleppo is witnessing in its recovery process from various difficulties, indicating that the artistic content of the concert contributes to raising artistic taste and confirming Syria’s cultural role in containing various types of music and the creators who seek it from all over the world.

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