September 21, 2009
Strings of Soul: Vanadzor Lad – Ambassador of Armenian Music
13-year-old Narek Kazazyan from Vanadzor has independently learnt playing canon and thanks to his talent has already traveled almost over half of the world. For the first time he has seen canon, exactly heard sounds of this musical instrument in the ensemble directed by his grandfather. Then he was studying piano at the Musical School of Vanadzor, but he liked the sounds of canon so much, that he decided to learn playing.
“I started playing canon myself, then my teachers sent me to study this instrument and I was “re-qualified” from a pianist to a canonist,” says Narek.
Canon is a string instrument spread in the countries of the Near and Middle East, as well as in Armenia, where it has been played yet in the middle ages. It was made of an apricot wood, fish skin and metal strings. Today canon is spread as a kind of national classical instrument.
Strings of Soul: Vanadzor Lad – Ambassador of Armenian Music
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