Pianist Svetlana Navasardyan will perform in recital as part of the Philip Lorenz Memorial Keyboard Concert Series at Fresno State. The event will be held on Sunday, March 23, on at 4 p.m. in the Concert Hall on the Fresno State campus.
The concert is co-sponsored by the Armenian Studies Program of Fresno State and the Thomas A. Kooyumjian Family Foundation.
Navasardyan will perform a repertoire of J. Haydn, Brahms, Chopin, and Komitas. Classical pianist Svetlana Navasardyan was born in Armenia and was distinguished as a People’s Artist of the Armenian SSR and was a professor at the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan for many years.
An artist par excellence, Navasardyan is recognized as an “indisputable personality,” who, as music critics have characterized her, “grows up to a symbol – a symbol of confrontation for anything that embodies the routine and predictability of modern pianism.”
Navasardyan has a talent and style of performance which international reviews have portrayed as “superb and of a very rare flexibility” and as one characterized by a “uniqueness of vision and depth of personal reading” – as “beauty… rarely heard!”
She has performed at major concert halls around the world, including the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Opera House of Sydney, the Palais des Beaux-Arts of Brussels, the Salle Gaveau of Paris, and has widely toured internationally with recitals in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Greece, Japan, China, Australia, Egypt, Kuwait, and elsewhere.
General tickets for the Concert are available for $40 per person, for seniors at $30 per person, and students at $5 per person. Ticket reservations for the concert may be made by calling (559) 250-9607.
Tickets may also be purchased online.
Free parking will be available in Lot P1 (Shaw and Maple entrance to campus).
For more information, please contact the Armenian Studies Program at 278-2669 or visit the website.
