Voyage of Vibrant Verses, A European Soundscape Komitas / Aslamazyan, Miniatures Rustic, naive, and ritualistic melodies, ballads, or epic songs… Komitas (1869-1935), an ethnomusicologist, traveled extensively throughout the Caucasus in search of folk melodies, collecting nearly three thousand of them. Sergey Aslamazyan, a Moscow cellist and founder of the Komitas Quartet, arranged fourteen of these […]
“The Dream Makers” offers a musical journey without words, full of colors and lights, to children from 6 to 12 years old. Carried away by the power of the compositions of Brahms, Debussy, Haydn, Dvořák, the show makes us discover the emotions that music brings to life. Trailer : TheDreamMakers An original production by the […]
The Freestyle Classics show is the result of an unexpected encounter between two artistic groups that are well known in their field: the Freestyle Lab collective and the Akhtamar String Quartet. The aim of this project is to create links between two artistic and cultural domains that seem to be opposed to each other: classical […]
The Freestyle Classics show is the result of an unexpected encounter between two artistic groups that are well known in their field: the Freestyle Lab collective and the Akhtamar String Quartet. The aim of this project is to create links between two artistic and cultural domains that seem to be opposed to each other: classical […]
The Freestyle Classics show is the result of an unexpected encounter between two artistic groups that are well known in their field: the Freestyle Lab collective and the Akhtamar String Quartet. The aim of this project is to create links between two artistic and cultural domains that seem to be opposed to each other: classical […]
“The Dream Makers” offers a musical journey without words, full of colors and lights, to children from 6 to 12 years old. Carried away by the power of the compositions of Brahms, Debussy, Haydn, Dvořák, the show makes us discover the emotions that music brings to life. Trailer : TheDreamMakers An original production by the […]
Program: Anton Dvorak, Quartet op.106 Dvorak wrote his quartet opus 106 after his return to Bohemia. The score is filled with Czech sonorities and rhythms, especially the third and fourth movements, inspired by the « furiant » (a traditional men folk dance). The composer expresses his happiness in returning to his homeland after his long American journey. […]
Program: Anton Dvorak, Quartet op.106 Dvorak wrote his quartet opus 106 after his return to Bohemia. The score is filled with Czech sonorities and rhythms, especially the third and fourth movements, inspired by the « furiant » (a traditional men folk dance). The composer expresses his happiness in returning to his homeland after his long American journey. […]
Program: Anton Bruckner, Quintette pour 2 altos In 2024, we celebrate the two-hundredth anniversary of Anton Bruckner’s birth. The Akhtamar Quartet wishes to celebrate this date by playing this magnificent piece of the chamber music repertoire. Anton Bruckner’s quintet for two violas, commissioned by the violinist Hellmesberger, was composed in 1879. This piece is the […]
Program: Anton Bruckner, Quintette pour 2 altos In 2024, we celebrate the two-hundredth anniversary of Anton Bruckner’s birth. The Akhtamar Quartet wishes to celebrate this date by playing this magnificent piece of the chamber music repertoire. Anton Bruckner’s quintet for two violas, commissioned by the violinist Hellmesberger, was composed in 1879. This piece is the […]