Vartan Melkonian

The melkonian children s fund mcf promotes any charitable purpose for the benefit of orphans or young people in need hardship or distress throughout the world and in particular the advancement of education the preservation of health and the relief of poverty distress and sickness.

Vartan melkonian. Abbey road studios in central london has seen concerts and recordings aplenty since it was immortalized by the beatles in 1969. The highlight was the first public performance of a symphony drake passage composed by vartan. Someone who has stayed humble despite working with many leading names in the music industry including julian lloyd webber willard white yvgeny kissin and lord yehudi menuhin to name but a few he is still very much down to earth. Refugee vartan melkonian is a world renowned conductor and spokesman for the un.

A century ago his ancestors lived in mus eastern turkey until the day ottoman rulers made a decision to deport armenians. Submitted by 100lives on tue 02 17 2015 10 47. But there has never been anything quite like the event that took place in april 2014. He then lived rough in the slums of beirut scouring the streets of the city.

մելքոնյան is a common family name of armenian origin literally meaning son of melkon melkon is an armenian given name. Who could have imagined that this street slug. Vartan melkonian is one of the conductors of britain s royal philharmonic orchestra. On 19 november 2015 a concert dedicated to maria jacobson the danish missionary who founded the birds nest orphanage in byblos was conducted by vartan melkonian in beirut.

Vartan melkonian speaker as a public speaker vartan is able to convey his unique story and in so doing encompass all human aspirations. Ashot melkonian 1930 2009 armenian artist. David melkonian public motivator and philanthropist. Melkonian or melkonyan armenian.

Vartan melkonian was brought up in the early 50s as an orphan in the birds nest orphanage in lebanon until the age of eight. Doctor of humane letters mr vartan melkonian baron of cilicia the orphan boy who became a great conductor bbc composer conductor of classical music. Babken melkonyan born 1980 armenian snooker and pool player. I am vartan melkonian.