Ариян Ашот Размикович

Arian Ashot

Арьян Ашот

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Arian Ashot Арьян Ашот (b. April 3, 1973, Yerevan). Armenian composer, now resident in Russia, of mostly orchestral, chamber, vocal, and piano works that have been performed in Europe.

Mr. Arian studied piano with Ruben Saryan at the Romanos Melikyan Music College in Yerevan from 1989-92, where he graduated with distinction, and studied composition with Armen Smbatyan and piano with Elena Abajyan at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory from 1992-95. He studied composition with Karen Khachaturian at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow from 1995-2001, where he earned his BMus and MMus.

Among his honors is First Prize in the Komitas competition for folk and spiritual music in Yerevan (1994, for Three Songs). His music has been featured at many festivals, including the Moscow Autumn.

He has taught composition, harmony, polyphony, and score reading at the Sveshnikov Choral Academy in Moscow since 2001 and analysis, form, instrumentation, and polyphony at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory since 2002.

CONTACT INFORMATION

E-mail address: ashotaryan@hotmail.com

Street address: Mr. Ashot Arian, Altufievskoye Shosse 97, Korp 1, Apt. 198, 127572 Moscow, Russia

Telephone: + 709 5909 8387

COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS

ORCHESTRAL: Manfred Symphony, string orchestra, 1996; Concerto-Brevis, piano, orchestra, 1999; Symphony, 2000-01; Skanda (symphonic fresco no. 1), duduk (Armenian oboe), orchestra, CD, 2002; Sounds of Stonehenge (symphonic fresco no. 2), 2002

CHAMBER MUSIC: Ballad, clarinet, piano, 1991; Trio, violin, cello, piano, 1993; Capriccio, violin, 1997; Amaras, clarinet, cello, piano, 1997; Dedication, cello, 1998; String Quartet, 1999

CHORAL: For Armenia (text by Valery Bryusov), mixed chorus, 1997

VOCAL: Romances (text by Hovhannis Tumanyan), voice, piano, 1992; Three Songs (text from an Armenian folk source), mezzo-soprano, piano, 1994

PIANO: Album for Children, 1989; Sonata, 1990; Toccata and Fugue, 1995; Three Pieces, 1997; Three Fugues and Postludes, 2000

(Last updated on December 2, 2003)