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Arian, Ashot (b. April 3, 1973, Yerevan). Armenian composer, now resident in Canada, 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. He has studied with Denis Gougeon at the Université de Montréal since 2008, where he is working on his PhD.
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 taught composition, harmony, polyphony, and score reading at the Sveshnikov Choral Academy in Moscow from 2001–07 and analysis, form, instrumentation, and polyphony at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory from 2002–07.
He has lived in Canada since 2007.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: ashotaryan@hotmail.com
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; Resonances, French horn, 2 B-flat trumpets, trombone, piano, string quartet, 2004; Dusk, cello, piano, 2005
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 February 3, 2008)
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