Native Mountains

Lili Chukazsyan was born in Chicago. Since childhood she sang at musical events, school concerts. During the 50s she sang at church choirs. In 1959 performed at Little Rock city and Baltimore opera theatres where achieved great recognition. In 1961 she was invited to Italy to sing at Apoleta Festival where she achieved great success, from 1962 to 1986 was a soloist at Metropolitan Opera Theater of New York, at the end of 1980s advisor. From 1986 to 2005 taught at Yale University. She performed about 30 leading roles and had concerts with prominent orchestras and conductors of the world. Lili Chukazsyan also sang Armenian songs (Komitas “Krunk”, “Lullaby”) and others. In 1967 at the White House in Washington DC she sang in Armenian. In 1981 Lili Chukazsyan was awarded with P. Adamyan medal from the Ministry of Culture of Armenia, in 2002 received “Sanford” medal. Died in the USA.