The graduation ceremony of Parsegh Ganachian Music College for 2016-2017 academic year took place on Friday, June 30, 2017, at 8: 00 pm, at Yerjo Samuelian - Tricolor Hall. It took place under the auspices of Prelate of the Armenian Prelacy of Lebanon, Fr. Shahe Panossian. Director of Yerevan State Conservatory after Gomidas, Shahen Shahinian presided at the event.
Director of Hamazkayin Art Schools, Hagop Handian delivered a speech and talked about the imperative of preserving the Armenian values and identity, ensuring the continual existence of the nation.
He said that during the last hundred years, the Armenian people of the Diaspora could only survive and preserved the Armenian identity in the imposed community life, through our culture. If we stopped fighting against assimilation threat and lost the five core elements of our identity - Homeland, Religion, economy, morality, and Armenian art, we would not endure as a nation. "As successors of the Armenian art, we should be well aware of it; otherwise, sometimes, even unconsciously, we can distort or convert the genuine Armenian art. In foreign environments we are naturally influenced by foreign arts, but we ought to consciously preserve our dear and native Armenian and bring it into our everyday life.″