Khosk: LUTVIK TURIAN
Ierajhshdutiun: KHATCHADUR AVEDISSIAN
MIRTA SATDJIAN (Armenian Folkloric Singer) Mirta Satdjian was born in Buenos Aires and grew up in a typical armenian family. She did her musical improvement with professors like Lucy Saborio, Gracia Domínguez and Mari de Camps. In 1977 makes her musical debut in the "Coliseo"
theater of Buenos Aires by the hand of the great popular singer Arturo Kouyoumdjian (passed away recently). In the 80´s she was the soloist of the worldwide famous group "Música Armenia 100x100" performing a large folkloric repertoire of armenian selected songs along Brasil, Uruguay and lots
of stages in Argentina (cities of Córdoba, Rosario and Buenos Aires). In 1983 was granted with a full scholarship from the Linkage Comitee for Armenia-Diaspora Cultural Relations in Armenia (Spiurkahaiutian hed Mshagutain Gabi Gomide), for the enhancement of her studies in armenian music, st
udying in Erevan´s "Gomidas" highest conservatoire with teachers like Robert Amirkhanian, Khatchadur Avedissian, Alosha Adjemian. Her classmates were some of the actual most popular musicians and performers of Armenia: Ararat Petrossian (shviahar), Marine Petrossian (singer), Susana Safarian (singe
r) and Tovmas Boghosian (singer). During her living in Armenia, she recorded and gave many concerts across the country with Aram Merangulian´s Armenian Popular Music Ensemble of the Radio and Television. In 2003 she performed and recorded with "Kusan" Armenian folkloric Ensemble of the
city of Córdoba (Argentina). Also she was invited many times to sing in massive concerts with the 35 years old "Nor Arax" Armenian musical group of Buenos Aires. In 2005 gaves a multitudinary recital in "Surp Krikor Lusavoritch" cathedral in Buenos Aires performing popular and folklori
c Armenian songs, which repeats by request of her fans in the "Armenia" Auditorium. Actually, besides her artistic career, she is an Armenian Popular Music teacher and, since april 2005, the artistic conductress of the successful teen-musical singing and dancing ensamble "Haistars", performin
g a large repertoire of armenian popular songs in Armenian. Also, she is the conductress of the armenian cultural radio program "Armenia, un lugar en el mundo" in FM 105.7 (saturdays 12:00 to 13:00 Buenos Aires MT) www.la1057.com.ar HOVHANNES BADALIAN Hovhannes Badalian was born in 1924 in the vil
lage of Shavarin near the city of Hamadan, Iran. His parents were from the ancient Armenian village of Gardabad near the city of Urmia. They came to Shavarin as refugees when the Turkish army invaded northwestern Iran. The Armenians of the region, well aware of the genocide of their kin in eastern A
natolia, fled further south, hoping to find safety with the British army which occupied Baghdad, Iraq, and was poised to move north. Despite hardships and uncertainties, young Hovhannes was able to attend an Armenian school in Baghdad until he was a teenager. In 1936 he returned to Iran where he sta
rted singing first in social gatherings and then in choirs. In Tehran, he studied and performed with maestro Hambarsoom Grigorian but was not satisfied with his prospects in Iran. He wanted to achieve more, hence, when the opportunity was offered to him at age 22, Badalian left for the Armenian SSR
with a group of students to study music and train his voice. In Yerevan he attended the Romanos Melikian Music College and joined the Folk Music Instruments Ensemble of the Armenian Radio. His voice began to echo throughout the diaspora and soon he was among the favorite performers on the Armenian R
adio. In 1949 pressures from the Soviet regime forced him to leave the Radio Ensemble and join the Tatoul Altunian Folk Dance and Song Ensemble but five years later he returned to the Radio program where he worked until the end of his life. In 1980 he also began to teach at Yerevan State Musical Con
servatory. In 1957 Badalian received the title of Honored Artist of Armenia and in 1961 he earned the title of the People's Artist of Armenia. Catholicos Aram the First presented him with the Saint Mesrop Mashtots Medal and the title of Singer of All Armenians in 2000. A year later his achievements
were recognized with the Movses Khorenatsi Medal from the President of the Republic of Armenia. Hovhannes Badalian passed away on August 19, 2001 in Yerevan after a short illness. Throughout his life Hovannes performed on many world stages from the Middle Eastern countries to Europe, Australia, Cana
da, US and countless tours within the Soviet Union and Armenia. He displayed an unparalleled enthusiasm whenever and wherever he walked on the stage. He left behind his distinctive school of singing a delightful collection of Armenian folk and patriotic songs and a living legacy in the minds of his
contemporaries.

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