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Ованнисян Арам
Hovhannisyan Aram
Hovhannisyan, Aram Ованнисян Арам (b. 1984, Yerevan). Armenian composer of mostly chamber works that have been performed in Europe and North America; he is also active as a flautist.
Mr. Hovhannisyan studied at the Anushavan Ter-Hevondyan School of Music in Yerevan and there graduated in 1999. He studied composition with Levon Chaushyan and flute with Yevgeny Noninyan at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory from 1999-2003 and studied composition with Nicolas Bolens and Éric Gaudibert and electronic music with Rainer Boesch and Émile Ellberger at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève in 2003-04, where he has studied composition with Michael Jarrell and electronic music with Rainer Boesch since 2004. He has also participated in flute masterclasses with Aleksandr Korneyev, Laurel-Ann Maurer and Boris Previsic.
Among his honors are four awards at the Concert of Concerts in Yerevan (one award, 1997, for his work as a flautist; three awards, 1998, for Concerto-Fantasy [withdrawn]) and First prizes in the Amadeus competition in Yerevan (1998, for Chamber Symphony) and the competition of the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra in Yerevan (1999, for Offertorium [withdrawn]). He has also received First Prize in the Aram Khachaturian competition in Yerevan (2003, for Je voudrais me souvenir...), co-First Prize in the Benjamin Britten competition in Yerevan (2003, for Between Dream and Reality) and First Prize in the Pre-Art competition for young composers in Zürich (2005, for IRAE [Cahier de tristesse No. 2]). His music has been performed throughout Armenia and in Austria, Georgia, Hungary, Switzerland, Ukraine, and the USA.
As a flautist, he has performed works by Artur Avanesov, David Balasanyan, Brian Ferneyhough, Athanasia Tzanou, Maya Virsaladze, and other modern composers. He co-founded with Artur Avanesov the new music ensemble AUS in Yerevan in 2002 and has since served as its co-artistic director.
He taught composition and flute at the Anushavan Ter-Hevondyan School of Music from 2001-03.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: mosflute@yahoo.com
Telephone (Switzerland): + 417 6424 7760
SELECT LIST OF WORKS
ORCHESTRAL: Chamber Symphony, 12-24 strings, 1997-98; Lamento (in memoriam Lazarus Saryan), 48 strings, 1998-99; Concerto grosso, 25 strings, 1999
CHAMBER MUSIC: Illusion and Caprice, alto saxophone/tenor saxophone, piano, 1999-2000; Uneasiness, string quartet, 2000; Livre, amplified flute, 2001; Trio-Elegy, flute, cello, piano, 2001; Schwanken – Entscheidung – Abkehr, clarinet, double bass, piano, 2 percussion, 2002; Dream, after the Rain, vibraphone, 2002; Je voudrais me souvenir..., clarinet, cello, piano, 2002; Between Dream and Reality, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, 2003; Inno – Hymn, alto saxophone, 2003; Les deux visions de mémoire, flute, 2003; Cronos, flute (+ piccolo), violin (+ percussion), cello (+ percussion), piano, 2 congas (+ 4 bongos, tam-tam) (1 player) (with conductor), 2003; à trois, flute (+ alto flute), oboe (+ bass oboe), clarinet (+ bass clarinet), 2004; Two Pieces, trombone, 2004; IRAE (Cahier de tristesse No. 2), piccolo (+ flute), bass oboe, piano, accordion, 2004-05; ...et seulement une fleur noire... (Cahier de tristesse No. 3), out-of-tune flute, accordion, 2005; Four Epistles from Darkness (Les deux visions de mémoire II), flute, 2005
CHORAL: Salvum (text from the words "Salvum me" [Armenian translation]), mixed chorus, 2004
VOCAL: Litania (text by St. Mesrop Mashtots), female voice, flute, cello, piano, buben (Armenian drum), 2001; Lacrimosa, soprano, flute, piano, 2004
PIANO: Thren I in memory of Lutoslawski, 2000; Thren II in memory of Nono, 2 pianos, 2001; Some Pages for Ann, 2002; ...(piano) musique pour piano... (Cahier de tristesse No. 1), 2004
ELECTROACOUSTIC: adieux, 6-track tape, 2004; Metanoia, 8-track tape, 2004; Wind's cry, 8-track tape, 2004; Sphere, 5-track tape, 2004
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