Contemporary Armenian Music Concert to be Presented Dec. 5

Award-winning composer and musician Robert Amirkhanian will present a concert of his contemporary Armenian music, accompanied by vocalist Seda Amirkarayan Sargsyan, on Sunday, Dec. 5, at California State University, Fresno.

The concert will be held at 4 p.m. in the Music Building Concert Hall. It is sponsored by the Armenian Studies Program at Fresno State.

Amirkhanian entered the professional musical world in the mid-1960's and soon became an acknowledged master of the vocal-instrumental genre. He is head of the Composers' Union of Armenia and chair of the Department of Music Theory at the Komitas Conservatory of Music in Yerevan.

Vocal accompanist Sargsyan, a graduate of the Komitas Conservatory, has performed in concerts in Armenia, Russia, Lebanon, the United States and elsewhere.

Tickets are $25 general, $15 students. For tickets call (559) 431-3054. For more information on the concert call the Armenian Studies Program at (559) 278-2669.

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