I got into Paris Match without getting my cello wet

I got into Paris Match without getting my cello wet

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norman lebrecht

May 07, 2018

New French talent Astrig Siranossian, 29, gets serious in a trivial interview:

Tous mes arrières grands-parents étaient orphelins du génocide de 1915. Mes grands-parents sont nés en Syrie, ma mère au Liban et je suis née 10 jours après un tragique tremblement de terre qui a eu lieu en Arménie donc, je pense qu’au même titre que la musique, j’ai été imprégnée par mes origines très naturellement. Je retourne très souvent en Arménie …

All of my great-grandparents were orphans of the 1915 genocide. My grandparents were born in Syria, my mother in Lebanon and I was born 10 days after a tragic earthquake in Armenia so I think that, like music, I was naturally impregnated by my origins. I return very often to Armenia …

photo: Nikolaj Lund

Comments

  • Joe says:

    Nothing new about Astrig. This wonderful cellist has been around for a while now…

  • Sue says:

    Is Armenia also the birth country of Sergei Babayan? It must be the water!!!

  • Michel says:

    “imprégnée” does not, in this context, mean that she was “impregnated” by her origins.

    #translationfail

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