YEREVAN, APRIL 19, NOYAN TAPAN. The "National Gallery" second musical festival consisting of 8 series of concerts will start on April 20 in Yerevan. As festival founders Mariam Shahinian and Garik Nazarian informed at the April 19 press conference, on that day at the Armenian National Gallery's wall-paintings hall the music-lovers will listen to classical works by Armenian and foreign composers to the accompaniment of the Armenian State Chamber Orchestra. According to Mariam Shahinian, the "National Gallery" festival can be considered as completely established. The newly founded festival already has an artistic council headed by famous Armenian composer Edvard Mirzoyan. According to maestro Mirzoyan, life itself dictates that this festival should become traditional and should serve "our noble people". As E.Mirzoyan stated, the evidence of it is the experience and responses received from the first festival. Member of the festival's artistic council, composer Tigran Mansurian congratulated those present and said that this musical event is the best occasion for the best Armenian classical musicians ans creators to perform. According to the organizers, this year they have tried to include new names and new works than have been never performed in Armenia. They mentioned that the wall-painting hall having 350 seats is small for the spectators but they have done their best for the students and the art-lovers to have an opportunity to come to the concert by invitation cards or tickets bought at affordable prices. They promised to invite foreign creators and performers as well to the festival in the future.

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