Inside the Festival Where Music Meets Diplomacy
Erik Mirzoyan, a 21-year-old Armenian clarinetist, is a member of the Pan-Caucasian Youth Orchestra, or PCYO, an 80-piece ensemble created as a central element of a classical music festival held every September in Tsinandali, Georgia. He was born in Moscow. During this year’s festival, Mirzoyan had a desire to play the Mozart clarinet quintet, so…