Song of Armenian representative of New Wave Junior 2013 to be chosen soon

YEREVAN, AUGUST 2, ARMENPRESS: The Armenian representative of the New Wave Junior 2013 First International Contest of Young Pop Singers Elina Cholakhyan will leave for Crimea with her mother on August 8, where the songs of the participants of the Contest will be selected by August 18-20.As the Armenpress correspondent was reported by the Musical Producer of the Armenia TV Company Irina Vardanyan, the Armenian delegation of the Contest will leave for Crimea on August 11.

“We have chosen so many songs but still cannot decide which of them to take for the Contest. Elina has got a very unique and a very powerful voice. We will chose the song one of these days”, - said Irina Vardanyan. According to her, on the second day of the Contest the delegate of our country will perform the song of Varduhi Vardanyan “Return”. “The song is very beautiful and has been renewed by the songwriter Arsen Grigoryan”, - said the Musical Producer of the Armenia TV Company Irina Vardanyan.

The broadcast right in Armenia belongs to the Armenia TV Company.

The Black Sea coast will be brightly lit up under the stars like never before, and apart from this year's contestants the stage of the central stadium "Artek" will host the winners of the New Wave Junior of past years as well as the established stars of the Russian and Ukrainian stage such as Irina Allegrova, Boris Moiseev, the A-Studio, Potap and Nastya, Dominick Jocker, Ivan Dorn, the VIA GRA, Polina Gagarina, Yuliya Savicheva, Dima Bilan.

The contestants will be judged by the talented jury including Igor Krutoy, Konstantin Meladze, Lev Leschenko, Alsu, Irina Dubtsova, Ani Lorak, Aleksey Ryzhov, Vera Brezhneva, Vlad Sokolovsky. In addition, press service of the President of Ukraine reported that Viktor Yanukovich will attend on August 15th the jubilee contest for young musicians.

In 2008 "ARS" holding company carried out the First International contest of young singers of popular music "New Wave Junior". The contest was a great success, in 2009 the Organizing Committee of the contest received more than 4,000 applications from over 20 countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Belarus, Georgia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Canada, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Slovakia, the USA, Tajikistan, Ukraine and others. There were two categories, where the contestants competed: from 8 to 12 years and from 13 to 15 years.

In 2008-2009 "New Wave Junior" was carried in Moscow "Cosmos". In April 2010 a Memorandum of holding the contest under the patronage of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovich at the International Children's Center "Artek" was signed. In 2011 the Organizing Committee of the contest decided to change age category of the participants, that is, from 8 to 13 years. In 2012 "New Wave Junior" celebrated its fifth birthday.

Every year, more than 7,000 children and adults from around the world come to the International Children's Center "Artek" to the contest "New Wave Junior". The International contest of young singers of popular music "New Wave Junior" has an extensive regional program. Selection rounds are held in all the federal districts of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Estonia, Finland, China and many other regions.