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Sargsyan, Vahram (b. May 28, 1981, Yerevan). Armenian composer of mostly chamber and choral works that have been performed in Europe and North America; he is also active as a conductor.
Mr. Sargsyan studied composition with Vardan Ajemyan and Aram Satyan and piano with Elisa Melkonyan at the Sayat-Nova School of Music in Yerevan from 1988–96 and music theory at the Tchaikovsky College of Music in Yerevan from 1996–98. He then studied composition with Ashot Zohrabyan at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory from 1998–2003, where he also studied conducting with Tigran Hekekyan from 2000–06 and where he has had post-graduate studies in composition with Ashot Zohrabyan since 2005.
His honors include an award in the choral competition of the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory and the Armenian Chamber Choir (2006, for Tantum ergo), a prize in the competition of the European Seminar for Young Composers in Aosta (2008, for Laudate Dominum), First Prize in the Petrinja competition for new choral music in Croatia (2009, for Anegh Bnutiun [second version]), and an award from the World Armenian Congress in Yerevan (2009, for his creative achievements). His music has been performed in Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Canada, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, the UK, and the USA, including once at the World Symposium on Choral Music in Minneapolis (2002).
As a conductor, he has served as assistant conductor of the Sagmos Female Choir in Yerevan since 2002 and has occasionally led the Armenian Chamber Choir in Yerevan. He founded the Armenian Chamber Voices in Yerevan in 2005 and has served as its conductor since 2005.
He is also active in other positions. He has served as co-director with David Balasanyan of the Young Composers Club of the Armenian Composers Union in Yerevan since 2006.
His arrangement of Khorurd metz – Great Mystery is included in the Oxford University Press anthology World Carols for Choirs (2005).
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: vscompoz@yahoo.com
Street address: Mr. Vahram Sargsyan, Mashtots St. Bldg. 10, Apt. 20, 0015 Yerevan, Armenia
Telephone: + 374 1053 1255
Cellular phone: + 374 9443 7036
SELECT LIST OF WORKS
ORCHESTRAL: Music for 13, small orchestra (13 players), 2002; Ter yete... – God, if (cantata), mixed chorus, large orchestra (64 players), 2003; Mythis, 18 strings, 2008
CHAMBER MUSIC: Five Images, cello, piano, 1996; Poem, cello, piano, 1998; Sonatina, clarinet, piano, 1999; String Quartet, 2000; Selbstvergessenheit, 2 clarinets, cello, piano, 2006; Deux Silhouettes féminines (texts by Paul Fort, Yeghishe Charents), soprano, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, 2007
CHORAL: Tkhur meran... – Sadly Departed (text by Vahan Teryan), female chorus, 1999; Kesgisher – Midnight (text by Vahan Teryan), mixed chorus, 1999; Voghormya – Lord, Have Mercy (text from Psalm 50 [Armenian translation]), mixed chorus, 2000; Luys Zvart – Joyful Light (text from an ancient Greek sacred text [Armenian translation]), female chorus, 2001 (also version for mixed chorus, 2006); Lux æterna, mixed chorus, 2004; Tantum ergo (text by St. Thomas Aquinas), mixed chorus, 2006; Domine Deus (text from the Gloria), 7 mixed voices, 2007; Laudate Dominum (text from Psalm 150), mixed chorus, 2008; Anegh Bnutiun (text by St. Nerses Shnorhali), female chorus, 2008 (also version for male chorus, 2009); Dzaynik (text by Komitas Vardapet), female chorus, 2009
VOCAL: Cette fille..., soprano, flute, clarinet, cello, piano, 2006
PIANO: Visions, 1997; Variations, 1999
ARRANGEMENTS: Sirt im sasani – My Heart Is Grieving over Judas (13th-century Armenian chorale), mixed chorus, 2002; Khorurd metz (Moses Khorenatsi), mixed chorus, 2002
(Last updated on September 30, 2009)
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