The Friends of Armenian Culture Society will present the 64th annual “Armenian Night at the Pops” on Fri., June 5, at 8 p.m. at Boston’s Symphony Hall. The evening will feature the young violinist Sammy Andonian from the Boston area. He will join Maestro Keith Lockhart in a debut performance with the Boston Pops Orchestra, performing the virtuosic and emotive violin concerto of Felix Mendelssohn. Armenian Night at the Pops this year will also salute another Boston native, the renowned Armenian-American composer Alan Hovhaness, in a performance of his solemn “Prayer of St. Gregory” as a special remembrance of the victims of the genocide. The evening will be a great tribute to Armenian culture in this important year of commemoration and will also feature an exciting selection of Pops favorites to be selected by the audience via their web-enabled devices.
Sammy Andonian
The versatile Sammy Andonian, who plays both violin and cello, studies with violinist John Holland and cellist Mike Reynolds. He has studied at the Heifetz International Musical Institute and has been the winner of numerous awards, including first prize at the New England Philharmonic’s Young Artists Competition and the Boston Youth Symphony’s Concerto Competition. He is the violinist of the Trio Adonais at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School and is both the concertmaster and principal cellist of the Boston Youth Symphony conducted by Federico Cortese. He has performed at Symphony Hall, Jordan Hall, and Sanders Theater of Harvard University.
Tickets for this concert are available for purchase online by visiting www.FACSBoston.org.
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