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Sona Hovannisyan |
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Sona Hovannisyan was born in 1963 to a musical family in Yerevan. She graduated from the Yegishe Charents English-language secondary school and the Sayat-Nova music school. Her early attraction to choral art led her to become a founding member of Arthur Veranyan’s experimental woman’s choir. In 1984, she graduated with honors from the conducting faculty of the Romanos Melikyan Musical College in Yerevan and then studied at the Komitas National Conservatory from 1984-89, graduating with honors and staying on to pursue graduate work. Since her student years Sona has been a choir director, leading the school choir at Secondary School No. 119 to national acclaim, as well as directing the children’s choir of the Yerevan Pioneers Palace and Hayren Chamber Choir (founded by S. Ter-Ghazaryan). |
| In 1992, Sona founded the Hover Chamber Choir, which she continues to serve as artistic director and conductor. The Hover Chamber Choir has three main goals: |
- releasing Armenian and international classics from their ‘petrified state’ and infusing them with life;
- bringing contemporary works to Armenian audiences and expanding choral repertoire and tastes with rarely performed works;
- creating a new choral genre, combining mime and song, adding a visual, kinetic dimension, though not a dance element, using movement symbolically, as signs of life, death, eternity, love, farce, and folk traditions, and yet presents a fresh, modern synthesis of the performing arts.
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