Nun茅 Melik: Hidden Treasures Projects
After several years of research into Armenian music,聽violinist , a doctoral student at the Schulich School of Music, is making waves with her debut album聽Hidden Treasure: Classical Armenian Music for Violin and Piano.聽Born in Siberia, Melik has Armenian, Georgian and Jewish roots.聽After her move to聽Montreal in 2009, she began to explore the music of composers from her upbringing in her fight for inclusivity in classical music, "recording not what she knows will make her famous, but what she believes needs to be heard." () As described in an interview with聽, Melik聽"went to the Composers鈥� Union in Armenia, [where they gave her]聽access to some scary and very dusty places" in her search聽for little-known sheet music. Here,聽she not only looked at scores, but met with composers to achieve her goal of popularizing the cultural heritage and music of the Caucasus's to both Western European and North American audiences.聽
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