開啟“一帶一路”文化新交流 亞美尼亞國家愛樂中國巡演正式開啟

中國與亞美尼亞開啟“一帶一路”文化新交流

亞美尼亞國家愛樂樂團中國巡演正式開啟

隨著“一帶一路”建設的深入發展，中國與“一帶一路”國家的文化交流日趨增多。2019年12月26日，在亞美尼亞駐華大使館，亞美尼亞共和國駐華大使謝爾蓋·馬納薩良(Sergey Manassarian)與阿姆斯特朗音樂藝術管理有限公司創始人兼董事長瑞·阿姆斯特朗（Wray Armstrong）聯合宣佈，亞美尼亞國家愛樂樂團將於2019年12月27日至2020年1月9日開始中國巡演。並且希望以此次亞美尼亞國家愛樂樂團來華訪問為契機，在未來共同促進中國亞美尼亞兩國更多的文化項目交流。

亞美尼亞是中國“一帶一路”倡議的積極擁護者。在共建“一帶一路”的五年中，兩國的交流合作不僅僅是經貿上的投資項目，還涉及能源、安全、人文等多領域的協作往來。

△ 發佈會現場圖 拍攝：劉明

左二起：亞美尼亞共和國駐華大使謝爾蓋·馬納薩良（Sergey Manassarian），阿姆斯特朗音樂藝術管理有限公司董事長瑞·阿姆斯特朗（Wray Armstrong）以及青年單簧管演奏家沈恬逸（Tony Shen）

亞美尼亞駐華大使謝爾蓋·馬納薩良在發言中表示，他期待樂團的首次訪華成功，並且希望樂團在未來能夠繼續來到中國，更廣泛更深入地與中國觀眾交流，建立更緊密的文化紐帶。通過樂團的演出，讓中國觀眾更多瞭解亞美尼亞音樂和優秀的亞美尼亞音樂家，從而感受其百年曆史承載的文化精神，以此將亞美尼亞和中國的文化合作交流提升到一個新的高度。

△ 亞美尼亞國家愛樂樂團

“阿姆斯特朗音樂藝術一直致力於‘一帶一路’文化的交流和傳播，”負責組織本次亞美尼亞國家愛樂樂團中國巡演的阿姆斯特朗音樂藝術管理有限公司創始人兼董事長瑞·阿姆斯特朗在發言中提到。“近年來，我們先後組織了以色列愛樂樂團、捷克愛樂樂團、俄羅斯國家交響樂團、波蘭華沙交響樂團等一大批‘一帶一路’國家的優秀文化代表來華進行演出。本次亞美尼亞國家愛樂樂團藝術總監愛德華·託布奇安親率樂團首次訪華，在‘一帶一路’的大背景下，勢必為兩國文化的交流做出表率。亞美尼亞擁有哈恰圖良等優秀的作曲家，其音樂文化帶有濃郁的民族色彩和亞美尼亞情調，我們希望可以和亞美尼亞駐華大使館一起，將更多的亞美尼亞文化項目帶到中國，同時也期待可以將優秀的中國文化作品推廣到亞美尼亞及其他的‘一帶一路’國家。”

△ 藝術總監&首席指揮：愛德華·託布奇安

據亞美尼亞國家愛樂樂團製作總監阿曼·帕達良介紹，樂團首次中國巡演的曲目也是經過了細心選擇，“這次來華巡演的曲目中特別包括了亞美尼亞作曲家哈恰圖良的作品，希望通過我們帶有鮮明民族特色的演繹，可以讓大家體會到亞美尼亞國家愛樂這支百年曆史的樂團，對於音樂不同的解讀。”

△ 發佈會揭幕 馬納薩良大使 & 瑞·阿姆斯特朗 & 沈恬逸 拍攝：劉明

本次巡演中，無錫、常州、常熟、麗水、北京這五場音樂會，樂團將與中國青年單簧管演奏家沈恬逸合作演奏莫扎特的《A大調單簧管協奏曲》。這位柯蒂斯音樂學院畢業，曾經和祖賓·梅塔、潘德列茨基、托馬斯·桑德林、以色列愛樂、俄羅斯國家交響樂團等指揮大師和世界名團共同合作過的年輕藝術家，也表達了對於這次巡演的期待。“亞美尼亞國家愛樂樂團是東歐地區頗具影響力的一支樂團。樂團的風格鮮明，個性十足。我非常榮幸可以參與樂團首次訪華巡演，期待能夠擦出不一樣的火花。”

△ 合影 拍攝：劉明

亞美尼亞國家愛樂樂團成立於1925年，本次樂團首次中國巡演，將在藝術總監及首席指揮愛德華·託布奇安的帶領下，在上海大劇院、深圳音樂廳、無錫大劇院、常熟大劇院、常州大劇院、麗水大劇院、廈門滄江劇院、武漢琴臺音樂廳以及國家大劇院進行10場音樂會。

China and Armenia Open up “The Belt and Road” Cultural Exchange; Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra Officially Starts China Tour

With the deepening development of "The Belt and Road" construction, the cultural exchange between China and "The Belt and Road" countries are increasing gradually. On December 26, 2019 in the Armenian Embassy in China, the republic of Armenia ambassador to China, Sergey Manassarian, the founder & chairman of Armstrong International Music & Arts Enterprises Ltd., Wray Armstrong jointly announced that Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra would tour in China from December 27, 2019 to January 9, 2020, and hope to take this visit as an opportunity to promote more cultural exchange between China and Armenia in the future.

Armenia is an active advocate of China's "The Belt and Road" initiative. During the five years of “The Belt and Road” construction, the exchange and cooperation between the two countries not only involved investment projects in economy and trade, but also cooperation in energy, security, culture and other fields.

The Armenia Ambassador to China, Sergey Manassarian said in his speech that the concert-tour will have a great success and ANPO will come back to China again and again, expanding the geography of tours, attracting larger audience and establishing stronger bonds. He noticed that historic tour will rise the Armenian-Chinese fruitful cooperation in the field of culture to qualitatively new level - giving an opportunity for the Chinese audience to get to know the Armenian music and high professionalism of the Armenian musicians, to feel the spirit of centuries-old culture and just to enjoy wonderful performances.

“Armstrong Music and Arts have been dedicated to the communication and transmission of 'The Belt and Road' culture. ” said Wray Armstrong, the founder and chairman of Armstrong International Music & Arts Enterprises Ltd., which organized this China Tour. “In recent years, we have organized Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Russia National Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia and other many excellent cultural representative from ‘The Belt and Road’ countries come to China to give performance. For this time, it is the first time that the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra artistic director, Eduard Topchjan led the orchestra to China, which will inevitably become an example for the cultural exchange between the two countries under “The Belt and Road”. Armenia has many great composers including Aram Ilyich Khachaturian and its music culture has a feature of strong national color and Armenian sentiment. We hope we can bring more Armenian culture projects to China together with Armenian Embassy in China, and expect to spread excellent Chinese cultural works to Armenia and other ‘The Belt and Road’ countries.”

According to Arman Padaryan, the general producer of Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra, the programme of this first China Tour is selected very carefully. He said, “The programme specially including the works of Khachaturian who is the famous Armenian composer. We hope that, through our performance with distinctive national features, it can make everybody experience the different interpretation of the music from Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra with century-long history .”

In this tour, the orchestra will cooperate with Chinese youth clarinetist Tianyi Shen to play Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A Major in five concerts in Wuxi, Changzhou, Changshu, Lishui and Beijing. The young artist graduated from The Curtis Institute of Music, who has collaborated with maestro and world famous orchestras such as Zubin Mehta, Krzysztof Penderecki, Thomas Sanderling, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, also expressed expectations for the tour. He said, “It is an influential orchestra in eastern Europe with a distinctive style and strong personality. I am very honored to attend the orchestra's first China Tour. I look forward to colliding with them.”

Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in 1925. For this first tour in China, with the leading of the artistic director and chief conductor Eduard Topchjan, it will make ten concerts in Shanghai Grand Theatre, Shenzhen Concert Hall, Wuxi Grand Theatre, Changshu Grand Theatre, Changzhou Grand Theatre, Lishui Grand Theatre, Xiamen Cangjiang Theatre, Wuhan Qintai Concert Hall and National Centre for the Performing Arts.

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