Hayg Boyadjian (born 1938) is an American composer of classical music whose work includes art song, chamber music and symphonies. Solo recordings of his compositions have been released by Opus One and Albany Records. Boyadjian was born in Paris to Armenian parents and grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina where the family had emigrated when he was a child. He began his musical studies at the Franz Liszt Conservatory in Buenos Aires before emigrating to the United States in 1958. He settled in Lexington, Massachusetts and continued his musical studies as a special student at the

New England Conservatory The New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) is a private music school in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the oldest independent music conservatory in the United States and among the most prestigious in the world. The conservatory is located on Hu ...

and later at Brandeis University. In 1980 he received a fellowship to the

McDowell Colony MacDowell is an artist's residency program in Peterborough, New Hampshire, United States, founded in 1907 by composer Edward MacDowell and his wife, pianist and philanthropist Marian MacDowell. Prior to July 2020, it was known as the MacDowe ...

. In 1991 he was the first American composer to be invited by the government of the newly independent Armenia to visit the country for rehearsals and performances of his chamber music. He has since visited the country several times for performances of his works. His piano concerto received its world premiere in 2016 in Yerevan to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Armenia's independence.Blotner, Linda Solow (ed.) (1983)
''The Boston Composers Project: A Bibliography of Contemporary Music''
pp. 65–68. MIT Press. Boyadjian is an active amateur astronomer and a member of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston. Several of his works, including ''Perseus'' (written for flautist Doriot Anthony Dwyer) and ''Cassiopeia'' (written for clarinetist Jonathan Cohler), are inspired by

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s. The shape of the notes on the stave for the work's principal motif reflects the shape of the constellation itself.Boyadjian, Hayg (2010)
Liner Notes: ''Vientos''
Albany Records. Retrieved 21 January 2017.

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Hayg Boyadjian
on AllMusic *Vartabedian, Tom (21 February 2012)
"Boyadjian Looks for Solidarity, Solace at Genocide Centennial"
'' Armenian Weekly'' (interview) 1938 births American classical composers New England Conservatory alumni American people of Armenian descent Living people Musicians from Buenos Aires French people of Armenian descent {{US-composer-20thC-stub