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The diverse and deeply expressive music on this program represents part of a very personal journey for Eve Egoyan. Eve is an Armenian-Canadian, born in Canada to Armenian parents. Her father’s parents were both orphans of the Armenian genocide. In the spring of 2022, Eve travelled to Armenia for the first time where she connected to music of living Armenian composers and charted new emotional territory.
Through this program, which she shares for the first time, Eve seeks a point of intersection between her Armenian heritage and musical practice. The unique music explores the piano through an Armenian folkloric lens, grounding itself in a work by Komitas Vardapet (the godfather of Armenian music), and includes works by living composers from Armenia and the Armenian diaspora: Vache Sharafyan (Armenia), Mary Kouyoumdjian (U.S.A.), Narine Kachatryan (Germany), Boghos Gelalian (Lebanon), Tigran Mansurian (Armenia), and herself. The works by Sharafyan, Kouyoumdjian, Gelalian, and Krachatyran will be Canadian premieres.
Armenian history is a complicated one. Through the genocide and subsequent diaspora, Armenians have lost ties to their historic past. Eve hopes to find a musical place for herself between remnants of the past and the energy of the present to create a musical place of her own. Though she will never be able to return to her ancestral home without being fully aware of its violently destructive past and uncertain future, she hopes to find something safe nestled within its extraordinarily rich and ancient culture.
Program
Tigran Mansurian: Lullaby for the Knight (2010) Canadian premiere
Vache Sharafyan: Excerpts from Goat Rite (2014) Canadian premiere
Boghos Gelalian: Tre Cicli (1969) Canadian premiere
Mary Kouyoumdjian: Aghavni (Doves) (2009) Canadian premiere
Narine Khachatryan: 4 Monodien fur Klavier (2011) North American premiere
Eve Egoyan: Ghosts beneath my Fingertips (for Viva) (2020)
Komitas Vardapet: Seven Dances for Piano
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
5040 Yonge St, Toronto, ON M2N 6R8, Canada, 5040 Yonge St, Toronto, ON M2N 6R8, Canada,Toronto, Ontario, North York
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