Womex (World Music Expo) Lifetime Achievement Awards in 2002 and Grammy in 2007 nominated Djivan Gasparyan as an Armenian national hero, created cross-cultural collaborations with many legendary musicians and composers. By him Armenian Symbolic Musical Instrument obtained worldwide popularity in Show-Business.

The UK's longest continuously running music hall and a 15th century building in Southampton have had grants totalling £6.8 million earmarked by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for their repair and restoration. The picture shows 'The City Varieties inside. Courtesy HLF'.

The Turkish society warmly received the performances of world-known Armenian duduk player Jivan Gasparyan in Ankara and Istanbul. People’s Artist and laureate of a number of international competitions Jivan Gasparyan told a new conference today that he had two concerts in Turkey on the occasion of Peace Day, where he presented compositions by Sayat-Nova, Komitas and M. Ekmalyan, as well as several old Armenian songs.