Sara Alexandrovna Dolukhanova

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Sara Alexandrovna Doluchanowa ( Russian Зара Александровна Долуханова , Armenian Զարուհի Դոլուխանյան , Saruhi Doluchanjan ; born March 5, 1918 in Moscow ; † December 4, 2007 ibid) was a Russian contraltist. From around 1965 she switched to the mezzo-soprano subject. In later years Dolukhanova also worked as a singing teacher and professor, from 1972 at the Gnesin Conservatory .

life and work

Sara Makarjan was born in Moscow in 1918 to Armenian-Kurdish parents. Her mother Jelena Makarjan was also a trained singer, her father was an engineer and an enthusiastic flute and clarinet player. As a child Dolukhanova learned to play the violin and piano at the music school.

From 1934 to 1938 Dolukhanova studied at the Gnesin Music School in Moscow. In the same year she went to Yerevan for further training , where she became a student of the teacher, composer and pianist Alexander Doluchanian. In 1941 she made her debut at the opera house in the Armenian capital Yerevan. After the Second World War, Sara Dolukhanova went back to Moscow with her husband - she had recently married her teacher and mentor. There she started a successful career as a concert and radio singer. In 1949 she won first prize in the singing competition of the World Youth Festival in Budapest . In 1950 their art of Bach singing was celebrated at the celebrations for the 200th anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach's death in Leipzig . From 1959 Dolukhanova appeared in concerts around the world. For an artist of the Soviet era, Dolukhanova had an unusually large number of appearances in western countries. She made her “West Debut” in New York's Carnegie Hall in 1959 and toured the United Kingdom , Scandinavia , Japan , New Zealand and Latin America several times . She became known in particular as a Bach and Handel interpreter and as a specialist in the difficult coloratura alto parts in the operas of Gioachino Rossini , which she masterfully intoned in concert, in radio concerts and in recordings. From 1968 Doluchanowa worked mainly in the educational field. Since 1972 she has been teaching at the Gnesin Conservatory in Moscow, where she was a professor from 1980 to 1985. She continued her singing career with occasional concerts until the early 1980s.

Honors

In 1952 Dolukhanova was appointed People's Artist of the Armenian Soviet Republic, in the same year also People's Artist of the Russian Soviet Republic and in 1990 People's Artist of the USSR. In 1966 she received the Lenin Prize . In 1975 she won the Robert Schumann Prize of the city of Zwickau .

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  1. ↑ This information comes from the corresponding article on Wikipedia and from bach-cantatas.com. Kutsch, Riemens give the real name of Sara Doluchanowa with Sarvi Agassievna. It is certain that the artist used the name Sara Doluchanova from the time of her wedding to Alexander Doluchanjan and appeared publicly under this name.
personal data
SURNAME Dolukhanova, Sara Alexandrovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Agassievna, Sarvi; Dolukhanova, Sara (English transcription); Makarjan, Sara (maiden name); Doluchanjan, Saruhi (Armenian, transcribed); Долуханова, Зара Александровна (Russian); Դոլուխանյան, Զարուհի (Armenian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian contralist and soprano
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 2007
Place of death Moscow