80 Years with Loris Cheknavarian

Hacoupian believes that a nation without epics is a nation without identity, and the beautiful mind and wise hands of Cheknavarian have been working on epics for years. The epic of creation. He who creates new epics from old epics is the summary of the feelings of a nation and its hidden and visible apex, and of course we are proud to be living in his era.

Loris Cheknavarian was born eighty years ago in Boroujerd. He was only eight when he learned to play the violin, and he performed compositions by Beethoven, Bach and Khachatourian conducted by the Tehran Symphony Orchestra at the Armenian Cultural Association at the age of seventeen. First, he studied music at the Conservatory of Music, and then he continued his studies in Austria, and finally at the University of Michigan in the United States. He has conducted the Tehran Opera Orchestra and the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra for more than a decade.

Cheknavarian has created many magnificent works for symphony, opera, folk music, concerto, ballet and more than thirty-five film scores, and in all of them Iranian symbols have been used. He has conducted many orchestras in the world, including the Royal Philharmonic of England, the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra. Loris also has works in painting, poetry and story writing. In November 2017, he donated all his works in the field of music to the Iran Music Museum.

On the occasion of Loris Cheknavarian’s 80th Birthday, Hacoupian Company tried to admire a little bit of a lifetime of his impressive efforts through a three-way collaboration by sponsoring six independent but related events over the course of a week.