Lectures and Publications

“Music forces Mankind to confront its nobility” – Franz Liszt 

• 2019   Contributed to organizing and promoting the celebration of the 150th anniversary of Father Komitas in Toronto. 
• 2013 - 2015: Powerpoint presentations and coordination of concerts dedicated to Armenian composers Aram Khachaturian and Father Komitas.   
• February 2004: Workshop entitled "Understanding Aram Khachaturian's Piano Music", hosted by the Ontario Registered Music Teachers' Association Pickering and Scarborough branches, at Grace Presbyterian Church, West Hill,Ontario.    
• June 2003: Lecture entitled "The Life and Works of Aram Khatchaturian", published in Horizon Armenian weekly, cultural supplement (Montreal, July & August 2003), and Nor Gyank Armenian weekly (California, November 2003). 
• July 2001: "The Business of Teaching" workshop for music teachers, in the context of "The Art of Teaching" Symposium organized by the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto.   
• 1994-1995: Lecture (in Armenian), on Komitas Vardapet, published in Noragnounk, a publication of the Centre for Christian Studies and Theology, Montreal, special issue, April 1995. A second lecture on Komitas Vardapet published in Shirag monthly (a publication of the Armenian "Tekeyan Cultural Union"), Beirut, September-October 1995, 39th year, # 9-10.

• August 2023 Musical minds: A conversation with Canadian-Armenian musicologist Michael Turabian  https://torontohye.ca/musical-minds-michael-turabian/
• June 2023 “Musical Minds: A Conversation with Composer Serouj Kradjian”, in Torontohye June issue.  https://torontohye.ca/musical-minds-serouj-kradjian/
• November 2019  “Sold Out Komitas Concert in Toronto a Major Success”, in TorontoHye November issue.
• October 2019  “Toronto Celebrates Komitas 150”, in TorontoHye October issue.
• October 2019  “Levon Ishkhanian Discusses Komitas”, an interview with jazz guitarist Levon Ishkhanian in TorontoHye, October issue
• September 2019 “Petros Shoujounian Discusses Komitas”, an interview with composer Petros Shoujounian, in TorontoHye, September issue
• August 2019  “Perpetuating Komitas’ Legacy”, in TorontoHye, August issue
• June 2019  “Komitas in the 21st Century”, in TorontoHye, June issue https://torontohye.ca/komitas-in-the-21st-century/?fbclid=IwAR25boAK7J7j62nh3CD7mIBJ_H4_xrw2JSFFkt5loe9GIzkVE7qMDufqYfU 
• November 2015: "Shiksa: Lara St. John’s New Take on Eastern Traditional Music” in Torontohye, November issue.    
• March 2014: “Troubadour and the Nightingale: a Juno Nomination for Isabel Bayrakdarian and Serouj Kradjian” in TorontoHye, March 2014 issue.     
• March 2014: “East Meets West: Some Lebanese and Armenian Input”, posted on  www.nyconertreview.com (New York Concert Review) and  www.keghart.com. http://nyconcertreview.com/articles/east-meets-west-some-lebanese-and-armenian-input/.
• December 2004: “Reflections on the Performance of National Music”, article in the New York Concert Review, December 2004 issue.   
• June 2003: “The National Element in Aram Khatchaturian’s Music”, article in the New York Concert Review, June 2003 issue.   
• 2002: “Boghos Gélalian, l’homme, le musicien, l’oeuvre”, Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik, Lebanon (doctoral dissertation). 
• November 1999: Securing Musical Memory article in Music Matters, the official newsletter of the RCM Examinations.

Musical Minds is an online conversation series with established talented Armenian musicians with a Canadian connection who contribute to Armenian musical culture in innovative ways and build bridges between the Armenian diasporic community and its host societies.

• 1st episode, May 11, 2023: Pianist-Composer Serouj Kradjian https://torontohye.ca/musical-minds-serouj-kradjian/
• 2nd episode, July 6, 2023: Pianist-Musicologist Michael Turabian https://torontohye.ca/musical-minds-michael-turabian/
• 3rd episode, August 10, 2023: Violinist-Sonic Theorist Dr. Gascia Ouzounian https://fb.watch/niMtRBKEkh/
• 4th episode, October 5, 2023: Performing artist-researcher Dr. Nuné Melikian https://fb.watch/o4WtjPo1sU/
• 5th episode, November 9, 2023: Ethnomusicologist-voice instructor Hasmig Injejikian: https://fb.watch/oix5n8MiQo/
• 6th     episode, January 11, 2024: Pianist-chamber musician Patil Harboyan: https://fb.watch/tXM_t--t9A/
• 7th episode, March 7, 2024: Pianist-composer Eve Egoyan: https://fb.watch/tXN34iBPfF/
• 8th episode, July 18, 2024: composer-conductor-vocalist Vahram Sarkissian: https://fb.watch/tXNfNohXeV/
• 9th episode, October 3, 2024: composer-documentarian Mary Kouyoumdjian. https://www.facebook.com/AgbuToronto/videos/1982151368898193
• 10th episode, September 12, 2025: pianist-musicologist Şahan Arzruni. https://www.facebook.com/AgbuToronto/videos/1481571746382598