开启“一带一路”文化新交流 亚美尼亚国家爱乐中国巡演正式开启

中国与亚美尼亚开启“一带一路”文化新交流

亚美尼亚国家爱乐乐团中国巡演正式开启

随着“一带一路”建设的深入发展，中国与“一带一路”国家的文化交流日趋增多。2019年12月26日，在亚美尼亚驻华大使馆，亚美尼亚共和国驻华大使谢尔盖·马纳萨良(Sergey Manassarian)与阿姆斯特朗音乐艺术管理有限公司创始人兼董事长瑞·阿姆斯特朗（Wray Armstrong）联合宣布，亚美尼亚国家爱乐乐团将于2019年12月27日至2020年1月9日开始中国巡演。并且希望以此次亚美尼亚国家爱乐乐团来华访问为契机，在未来共同促进中国亚美尼亚两国更多的文化项目交流。

亚美尼亚是中国“一带一路”倡议的积极拥护者。在共建“一带一路”的五年中，两国的交流合作不仅仅是经贸上的投资项目，还涉及能源、安全、人文等多领域的协作往来。

△ 发布会现场图 拍摄：刘明

左二起：亚美尼亚共和国驻华大使谢尔盖·马纳萨良（Sergey Manassarian），阿姆斯特朗音乐艺术管理有限公司董事长瑞·阿姆斯特朗（Wray Armstrong）以及青年单簧管演奏家沈恬逸（Tony Shen）

亚美尼亚驻华大使谢尔盖·马纳萨良在发言中表示，他期待乐团的首次访华成功，并且希望乐团在未来能够继续来到中国，更广泛更深入地与中国观众交流，建立更紧密的文化纽带。通过乐团的演出，让中国观众更多了解亚美尼亚音乐和优秀的亚美尼亚音乐家，从而感受其百年历史承载的文化精神，以此将亚美尼亚和中国的文化合作交流提升到一个新的高度。

△ 亚美尼亚国家爱乐乐团

“阿姆斯特朗音乐艺术一直致力于‘一带一路’文化的交流和传播，”负责组织本次亚美尼亚国家爱乐乐团中国巡演的阿姆斯特朗音乐艺术管理有限公司创始人兼董事长瑞·阿姆斯特朗在发言中提到。“近年来，我们先后组织了以色列爱乐乐团、捷克爱乐乐团、俄罗斯国家交响乐团、波兰华沙交响乐团等一大批‘一带一路’国家的优秀文化代表来华进行演出。本次亚美尼亚国家爱乐乐团艺术总监爱德华·托布奇安亲率乐团首次访华，在‘一带一路’的大背景下，势必为两国文化的交流做出表率。亚美尼亚拥有哈恰图良等优秀的作曲家，其音乐文化带有浓郁的民族色彩和亚美尼亚情调，我们希望可以和亚美尼亚驻华大使馆一起，将更多的亚美尼亚文化项目带到中国，同时也期待可以将优秀的中国文化作品推广到亚美尼亚及其他的‘一带一路’国家。”

△ 艺术总监&首席指挥：爱德华·托布奇安

据亚美尼亚国家爱乐乐团制作总监阿曼·帕达良介绍，乐团首次中国巡演的曲目也是经过了细心选择，“这次来华巡演的曲目中特别包括了亚美尼亚作曲家哈恰图良的作品，希望通过我们带有鲜明民族特色的演绎，可以让大家体会到亚美尼亚国家爱乐这支百年历史的乐团，对于音乐不同的解读。”

△ 发布会揭幕 马纳萨良大使 & 瑞·阿姆斯特朗 & 沈恬逸 拍摄：刘明

本次巡演中，无锡、常州、常熟、丽水、北京这五场音乐会，乐团将与中国青年单簧管演奏家沈恬逸合作演奏莫扎特的《A大调单簧管协奏曲》。这位柯蒂斯音乐学院毕业，曾经和祖宾·梅塔、潘德列茨基、托马斯·桑德林、以色列爱乐、俄罗斯国家交响乐团等指挥大师和世界名团共同合作过的年轻艺术家，也表达了对于这次巡演的期待。“亚美尼亚国家爱乐乐团是东欧地区颇具影响力的一支乐团。乐团的风格鲜明，个性十足。我非常荣幸可以参与乐团首次访华巡演，期待能够擦出不一样的火花。”

△ 合影 拍摄：刘明

亚美尼亚国家爱乐乐团成立于1925年，本次乐团首次中国巡演，将在艺术总监及首席指挥爱德华·托布奇安的带领下，在上海大剧院、深圳音乐厅、无锡大剧院、常熟大剧院、常州大剧院、丽水大剧院、厦门沧江剧院、武汉琴台音乐厅以及国家大剧院进行10场音乐会。

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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