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    Demirjian, Karoun

    Soprano who was a member of The Harvard University Choir and appeared on their yuletide offering, Christmas in the Busch. 

     

    In November 1999, she was double-cast as Cupid and Hypsipyle in the Harvard Early Music Society’s production of Pier Francesco Cavalli’s Giasone.  She was the Music Director of the orchestra in the Harvard-Radcliffe G & S Players’ mounting of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience in the spring of 2002.  Concomitantly, she was responsible for editing The WHRB Program Guide, which was issued five times each year by Harvard Radio Broadcasting. 

     

    In the new millennium, she has been active in the Augustana Lutheran Church in Washington, D.C.  She performed in A Consort of Musical Delights, in tandem with the Augustana Lutheran Church Choir, on 18th October 2009.  In the winter of 2009, she departed the nation’s capitol and relocated to Boston, Massachusetts. 

     

    For an audio sample of Karoun’s voice, check out the ionarts link below and you can hear her singing “Piu m’affligge piu disprezzo” from the opera, Il Trionfo di Camilla regina de Volsci.

     

    The Harvard University Choir recordings

    Adeste Fidelis (Frederick Oakeley/John Francis Wade)

    Pro Organo CD 7134 (Christmas in the Busch)

    Conductor – Murray Forbes Somerville

    Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra

    Director – Robert Mealy

    The Harvard Brass

    SopranoAwet Andemicael

    Bass – Mark Risinger

    Organists – Erica Johnson and Edward Jones

     

    Sources:

    1. http://jean-claude.brenac.pagesperso-orange.fr/CAVALLI_GIASONE.htm
    2. http://www.negass.org/bray/pdf/May02Bray.pdf
    3. http://www.whrb.org/pg/NovDec2002.pdf
    4. http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2007/05/ionarts-in-concert.html
    5. http://www.augustanadc.info/pdf-files/Consort%20Flier.pdf
    6. http://www.augustanadc.info/pdf-files/novdec-2009-newsletter.pdf
    7. Liner notes:  Christmas in the Busch

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     



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