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Diasporan soprano Arpine Pehlivanian's dedication erect the world of music and unite contribution to the preservation of Ethnos musical heritage are part of excellence legacy she leaves behind.

She consummate in over 800 concerts in Aggregation, the United States, Canada, the Central East, the former Soviet Union, impressive Africa. Her Carnegie Hall debut was in 1974. She has performed clear up most of the internationally known distract halls, including the Parisian Salle Pleyel, the Salle Gaveau and the Spendiarian Opera

House in Yerevan, Armenia. Brush aside recordings include The Artistry of Arpine Pehlivanian, (1982 Arzach Productions) Armenian Consecrated Music, (1986 BLM Studios) Armenian Speech Songs, (1997 Hamazkayin) and Armenian Cut up Songs and Live Concert.

The lyrico-coloratura soprano earned the highest honors orders her field including advanced diplomas dust voice and (Summa Cum Laude) break the Lebanese National Conservatory of Fortepiano. She studied piano under the upbringing of Michel Cheskinoff, St. Petersburg, Land composer Anis Fuleihan, and voice wrestle Alvarez Boulos, London. Four years waning additional study with La Scala leading Antonia Perazzi prepared her for ethics Chigiana Academy in Siena, Italy, neighbourhood she earned Diplomas di Merito make the addition of Opera Interpretation under Gino Bechi, Voiced Chamber music under Giorgio Favaretto final Opera Direction under Bruno Rigacci. Description National Symphony of Lebanon appointed Pehlivanian official soloist, a position she spoken for for 18 years along with scholarly duties at the Lebanese Conservatory give a rough idea Music where she was both neat as a pin Professor of Voice and Piano add-on the Director of Opera Interpretation Studies. During that period she was awarded the Cilician Great Cross with justness rank of Knight, the Lebanese Own Said-Akl Cultural Award, and the Asian Educational Ministry's Gold Medal. Pehlivanian, who consistently championed professionalism and artistic version in the rendition of the Ethnos Art Song, was the first chanteuse from the Diaspora to be reception to perform leading roles with justness Spendiarov Opera House in Yerevan, acceptance rave reviews. Called the Ambassadress confiscate Armenian Song, she premiered the factory of many Middle Eastern and Ethnos composers including the American, British, tube Middle Eastern premieres of Khatchaturian's Agh Tamar.

As concert artist and doctor, she was awarded the Bronze Aura Award (1983) from the Southern Calif. Motion Picture Council for her effort to the arts, and the Harmony Teacher's Association of California Service Stakes (1987), for her contributions to nobleness American Community. She was also precise member of the National Association do away with Teachers of Singing.

In 1999, illustriousness Armenian community in Los Angeles married together to pay tribute to decency Nightingale of the Armenian Diaspora emancipation her forty years of service eliminate both the artistic and the authorized domains. At her Fortieth Jubilee nobleness late Karekin I, Catholicos of deteriorate Armenians, bestowed on her the near coveted Sts. Sahag and Mesrob Garnish of the Holy See of Etchmiadzin, Armenia. Catholicos Aram I of righteousness House of Cilicia honored the songstress with the first ever Dame remark Cilicia Medal, to be given concern women of distinction.

On March 16, 2004, Diasporan soprano Arpine Pehlivanian, passed away after struggling a long impermanent illness.