The “Shushi” Choir of the Armenian Orthodox Archbishopric in Damascus held a Christmas musical evening entitled “Nativity ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - Award-winning artist Nvair Kadian Beylerian officially released her latest album, “We Sing Armenian Church Songs (Badarak Hymns for Children)” last week. Her latest compilation is an ...

Tigran Hamasyan won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition in 2006, but the music that resonates even deeper for him is centuries removed — and a sound world away — from jazz. In ...

YEREVAN -- Armenia is abuzz over its plucky national anthem since a prominent politician called for a return to the hymn that played under communism. Alen Simonian, who was installed as deputy speaker ...

God, it is said, works in mysterious ways. Tigran Hamasyan certainly thinks so. In October last year, during the recording of the pianist's latest album, Luys i Luso – a haunting fusion of piano ...

Canadian operatic soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian will help the Elektra Women's Choir will mark its 30th anniversary with an event featuring Armenian hymns. Speaking with North by Northwest host Sheryl ...

In opera, as Isabel Bayrakdarian well knows, characters are always signing deals with the devil: for love, for power, for eternal life. But when it came time for the Armenian-Canadian soprano to make ...

Pope Francis, center, Armenian Catholicos Karekin II, left, and Aram I Kechichian, head of the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia, right, attend a ceremony for the inauguration of the statue ...

Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian jokingly blames all the opera plots she's been immersed in her entire singing career — plots where a character makes a pact with a devil — as the inspiration for her own a ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - Hikmet Akcicek's band, Vova, is intending to keep Homshetsi – a northwestern dialect of Western Armenian and one of 15 endangered languages spoken in Turkey – alive with their music.