Language(s): Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
Additional Artists
Track Listings
PROGRAM:
TO HIM, Kohar Kasbarian
IT'S RAINING, MY SON, Lucine Zakarian
WINDS FROM EMERALD HILLS, Lucine Zakarian
BUDDING CHILD, Lucine Zakarian
CONSUMED BY YOUR LOVE, Shara Dalian
FESTIVAL OF THE ASCENSION, State Chorus of Armenia
BLOND MAIDEN, Hovhannes Badalian
NATIVE VILLAGE, Armineh Tutunjian
SECRET LOVE, Armineh Tutunjian
LAMP OF THE ENLIGHTENER, Armineh Tutunjian
HARVEST JOY State Chorus of Armenia, Hovhannes Badalian
Hampartzoum Berberian is one of the foremost contemporary composers of Armenian choral and orchestral music. Themaestro's stylistic mold is his Armenian heritage. This musical language is express though Western compositional disciplines but preserved Eastern idiom.
A citizen of the United States since 1968, Maestro Berberian was born in Adana, Turkey in 1905, and in his child¬hood become witness and subject to the 1915 holocaust of persecution, deportation and genocide which befell the Armenians in their historic homeland in Asia Minor.
In 1930, he graduated from the prestigious Athens National Conservatory of Music, whereupon he was designat¬ed rector of the Hellenic Conservatory in Cyprus. Maestro Berberian's background includes an extensive chronol¬ogy of administrative, academic and research activities in the field of music. He has completed numerous concert tours throughout the Middle East, Europe, North and South America, the British Isles and the Soviet Union.
Among his foremost operas are "Titter," and opera-ballet; "Shoghik" and "Areknazan." His orchestral works include "Yegeghetsin Haigagan," Khorhourt Vartanantz," "Aghotk Vaghva Semin Archev," "Requiem Aeternum," "Kovk Haiastani," Khosk im Vortvoon," "Loosavortchi Ganteghuh," "Saint Mesrob Cantata"and over two hun¬dred choral and symphonic pieces. Berberian has produced innumerable choral works, art songs, troubadour songs and children's music.
In 1979, Maestro Berberian received the coveted "Sahag-Mesrob Medallion"from His Holiness, Vazken I Catholicos of All Armenians. In 1981, he received the highly prized "Komitas" award from the Musicians Guild of Armenia. The composer has been honored with medals and awards from numerous cultural, educational and national organizations and institutions throughout the world.