We must bring our musicians back, says Eduard Topchyan (video)

The conductor of Armenia’s State Philharmonic Orchestra has said Armenia must start bring back its musicians spread all over the world.

Speaking at a news conference on Monday, Eduard Topchyan said for that to happen, Armenia should be able to offer those people good salaries so that they will be motivated to return.

“No matter how much we distributed them [to the world] … now we must again bring them back. That is to say we should think about the salary we should offer them, so that those people will return,” explained he.

Further, he said that the older generation of musicians does not have its successors.

“If this goes on, in six years’ time we will not have the Philharmonic [orchestra] either. Now we have there excellent people whose health is very poor and we have no guarantee that they will have successors,” he explained.

According to Topchyan, two of the most importance music schools should be taken under supervision so that personal ties will not matter there and the teaching stuff, that will be highly paid, will be objective.