Audience in Barcelona accepted enthusiastically concert dedicated to Flora Martirosyan

YEREVAN, MAY 13, ARMENPRESS. Singer Sona Aroyan plans to introduce the songs of the People's Artist of the Republic of Armenia Flora Martirosyan at the concert held in France in the end of the current year. Aroyan stated this from Barcelona in a conversation with "Armenpress". A big charity concert dedicated to the memory of People's Artist of the Republic of Armenia Flora Martirosyan was held in AUDITORI CAN ROIG I TORRESConcert Hall in Barcelona, Spain on May 11. Singer Sona Aroyan performed Flora Martirosyan's songs. "Following Your Traces" concert program lasted about one hour and 50 minutes.

Among other things Sona Aroyan noted that the audience was dancing at the course of the concert and many of them visited the backstage to say that they are very impressed with the musict.

Flora Martirosian was born on February 5, 1957 in Gyumri to a family of an athlete and a housewife. She inherited her vocal skills from her mother. Martirosian studied at the Gyumri Musical School. Her participation in the Garun 73 contest in 1973 brought her the first prize. A graduate of the Yerevan State Conservatory, she later married Hrahat Gevorgyan, a journalist, in 1987. The family moved to Los Angeles, US, in 1987 and returned to Yerevan in 1997. Martirosian was the principal of Yerevan's Armen Tigranyan Musical School between 1997-2001. Martirosian founded the Komitas Musical Academy in Los Angeles in 2002.

People's Artist of the Republic of Armenia Flora Martirosyan was the founder of the International Musical School after Komitas, "Artists for Peace" Charity Organization and the initiator of the cultural movement "Never Again".

The singer passed away on November 20, 2012. Complications of a gallbladder surgery are thought to be the cause of her decease. The singer was buried in Yerevan's Komitas City Pantheon on December 12, 2012.