Delegates
the world music professionals directoryLucineh Hovanissian
Born in Yerevan(Armenia), Lucineh Hovanissian has been performing on stage since the age of 9 as a soloist singer in Yerevan's Municipal Park children's Band, and at the age of 11, began performing as a pianist-composer. Both in 1987 and 1988 she won awards at the Aram Khatchaturian competitions among young composers of Armenia. Lucineh studied in the vocal department of the Jazz Art College and the Yerevan State Conservatory.
She graduated from Yerevan State Medical University followed by post-graduated studies in the field of neurosciences at Pierre & Marie Curie University in Paris.
An open minded and pluridisciplinar artist, she freely crosses the musical traditions and genres.
In 2002 she became a UNESCO laureate in music (Bursary Aschberg). In 2004 she had the first prize (category "Solo Canto") at the VII International Festival MUSICWORLD in Fivizzano, Italy. She recorded her debut album in a 12th century rocky monastery in Armenia. "VEM- Sacred songs from Armenia" released in France(Abeille Musique) in 2005 was nominated for Best Classical Voice Album at the 2006 Just Plain Folks Music Awards.
Lucineh has toured in Europe, North America and has shared the stage with Tinariwen, Lhasa, Maurice El Medioni, Juhani Aaltonen, A Filetta.
Lucineh is speaking Armenian, French, English, Russian, Italian, and is a freelancing world music journalist for radio.
