Lusine Ghazaryan Soprano   

Lusine Ghazaryan and Anahit Papayan are two young sopranos from Yerevan, Armenia. Both are students at the Yerevan State Conservatory; Ghazaryan is completing post-graduate work with Professor G.Gehamyan; Papayan is in her fourth year, studying with Professor L.Mkrtchyan. The two have been performing together since 2001, including for Yerevan television (ALM) and numerous radio broadcasts. Both are currently employed as soloists in the St.Geghard Monastery Choir, which is conducted by Papayan.

Anahit Papayan

As the recordings here demonstrate, the two have made a specialty of medieval Armenian sacred music, whose roots stem back to the 4th and 5th centuries. In these recordings, the two sopranos alternate solo performances for most of the chants, though sing four together. This is beautiful monodic music, and forms an interesting point of comparison to Western (Gregorian) chant.