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Roger Voisin was also very active as an editor for International Music Company, providing over 45 editions for the company. VOISIN EDITIONS: Giuseppe Aldrovandini (1671-1707), Sonata No. 1 for Two Trumpets (International Music Company) Giuseppe Aldrovandini (1665-1707), Sonata No. 2 for Two Trumpets (International Music Company) Giuseppe Aldrovandini (1665-1707), Sonata No. 3 for Two Trumpets (International Music Company) Alexander Arutiunian (b. 1920), Concerto for Trump ...

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USSR State Prize - 1941. Alexander Dovzhenko: film Shchors (about Nikolay Shchors) Isaak Dunayevsky: Music from the films Circus and Volga-Volga Uzeyir Hajibeyov: Ker oghlu, opera Aram Khachaturian: Violin Concerto Nikolai Myaskovsky: Symphony No. 21 Vsevolod Pudovkin and Mikhail Doller: film Suvorov Yuri Shaporin: On the Field of Kulikovo, cantata Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Quintet Mikha ...

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Archaeological evidence indicates that an Urartian military fortress called Erebuni (Էրեբունի) was founded in 782 BC by the orders of King Argistis I at the site of current-day Yerevan, to serve as a fort/citadel guarding against barbarian attacks from the north Caucasus, thus making it one of the oldest cities in the world. Since then the site has been strategically important as a crossroads for the caravan routes passing between Europe and India. It has been called Yerevan since at least the 7th century A.D., when it was the cap ...

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Roger Voisin was with the Boston Symphony at the inception of the Tanglewood Music Center in 1940, and continues to serve on the faculty there, coaching the orchestral winds and teaching solfège to the conducting class. He became chair of the New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) brass and percussion department in 1950 and was the primary trumpet teacher at NEC for nearly 30 years. In 1975 he became a full professor at Boston University, teaching trumpet and chairing the wind, percussion and harp department until his retirement in 1999. I ...

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Yerevan is Armenia's industrial, transportation, and cultural center. Manufactures include chemicals, primary metals, machinery, rubber products, plastics, textiles, and processed food. Not only is Yerevan the headquarters of major Armenian companies, but of international ones as well, as it's seen as an attractive outsourcing location for Western European and American multinationals. Yerevan is also the country's financial hub, home to the Armenian National Bank, the Armenian Stock Exchange, as well as some of the country's largest commercial banks.

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Yerevan is a leading industrial, cultural, and scientific centre in the Caucasus region. As a centre of Armenian culture, Yerevan is the site of Yerevan State University (1920), the Armenian Academy of Sciences, a historical museum, an opera house, a music conservatory and several technical institutes. The Matenadaran archives hold a rich collection of valuable ancient Armenian, Greek, Syrian, Hebrew, Roman and Persian manuscripts. Yerevan has several large public libraries, a number of museums and theaters, botanical gardens and zoos. It is ...

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Yerevan - Universities. Universities in Yerevan include: Yerevan State University Yerevan State Medical University State Engineering University of Armenia Yerevan Physics Institute ...

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Arguably one of the most influential trumpet performers and teachers of the twentieth century, Voisin joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra as assistant principal trumpet in 1935 at age seventeen, and became principal trumpet in 1952. He performed in the Boston Symphony for 38 years, until 1973. During this period, he was also principal trumpet with the Boston Pops Orchestra. Voisin moved to the United States as a child when his father, René Voisin, was brought to the Boston Symphony as fourth trumpet by Sergei Koussevitzky in 1928. H ...

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USSR State Prize - 1964. Hanon Izakson USSR State Prize - 1967. Vladimir Chelomei USSR State Prize - 1968. Pavel Soloviev USSR State Prize - 1970. Alexander Yakovlevich Bereznyak (for KSR-5 and Kh-28) USSR State Prize - 1971. Alexander Yakovlevich Bereznyak (for Kh-22M) < ...

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