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. Collaborated with CBC Music radio host Paolo Pietropaolo for an “In Concert Revival Hour” episode dedicated to Komitas, first broadcast on September 22, 2019.
• 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/