In September, Yerevan will launch the 5th annual Yerevan Perspectives Festival, the art director and chief conductor at Armenia’s State Philharmonic Orchestra (SPO) stated.

As Eduard Topchjan told a news conference in Yerevan, the festival will feature joint performance of the SPO with 15 world-famous soloists, including German violinist Julia Fischer, Russian concert pianist Konstantin Lifschitz, French clarinettist Paul Meyer.

The SPO is celebrating its 85th jubilee in 2011. In 2010-2011, the Orchestra gave 35 concerts in Yerevan, also touring over Germany and Slovakia.

For the second consecutive year, the Orchestra is sponsored by VivaCell-MTS company.