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n composer,

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of the State Award of Armenia,

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of the

Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan ( hy, Երևանի Կոմիտասի անվան պետական կոնսերվատորիա), also known as Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory (YKSC) or Yerevan State Conservatory (YSC), is a state-owned college ...

Biography

Ruben Sargsyan was born in

Yerevan Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Y ...

, Armenia, in the family of scientist agronome Suren Sargsyan. He first began to study at the

Sayat-Nova Sayat-Nova (Armenian: Սայեաթ-Նովայ ( сlassical), Սայաթ-Նովա (reformed); ka, საიათნოვა; ; ; born Harutyun Sayatyan; 14 June 1712 – 22 September 1795) was an Armenian poet, musician and ''ashugh'', who ...

Music School, then continued his education at the

Romanos Melikian Romanos Melikian ( hy, Ռոմանոս Հովակիմի Մելիքյան; October 1, 1883, Kizlyar – March 30, 1935, Yerevan) was an Armenian composer. He finished the Rostov Musical College, then the classes of Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov and B. Ya ...

Music College. At the second year of college education he has been recommended and transferred to the music composition class of the

, where he studied with professor

Ghazaros Saryan Ghazaros (Lazarus) Saryan ( hy, Ղազարոս Սարյան, russian: Лазарь Мартиросович Сарьян; 30 September 1920 – 27 May 1998) was an Armenian composer and educator. Life and career Ghazaros Saryan was born into a f ...

. He graduated from the Conservatory in 1972 and became a member of the Composers' Union. In 1973-1985 Ruben Sargsyan has been teaching

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and Solfege at the Yerevan Music School No.10. In 1987-2013 he has taught

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and Modern Composition Technology at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory. In 2004 became a Professor of Music. In 1994 Ruben Sargsyan, along with other modern Armenian composers and musicologists, established th
Armenian Musical Assembly
non-governmental, non-for-profit organization, intended to promote and support modern Armenian Music worldwide.

Awards

* 2007 - received the State Award of Armenia for his orchestral cycle My coeval. * 1993 - became a laureate of the national competition The Best Symphonic Composition for his Symphonic Poem. * 1978 - received the Best Composition of the Year national award for his Cello Concerto No.1

Selected compositions

* Rock-ballet

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, libretto based on Herbert Wells novel, 2000 * , 1986 (Komitas publishing, Yerevan, 2012) * Symphony No.2, Ironica, for symphonic orchestra, 1989 (Komitas publishing, Yerevan, 2010) * Symphony No.3, The Chronicle, for symphonic orchestra (published, Komitas publishing, Yerevan, 2005) * Symphony In modo passacaglia for chamber orchestra, 1984 * Concerto No.1 for Violin and Chamber orchestra, 1983 (published, Sovetakan Grogh publishing, Yerevan, 1989) * Concerto No.2 for Violin and Chamber orchestra, 1984 (published, Komitas publishing, Yerevan, 2009) * Concerto No.3 for Violin and Chamber orchestra, 1989 * Concerto No.4 for Violin and Chamber orchestra, 2001 (published, Komitas publishing, Yerevan, 2003) * Concerto No.1 for Cello and Symphonic orchestra, 1977 * Concerto No.2 for Cello and Chamber orchestra, 1979 * Concerto No.3 for Cello and Chamber orchestra, 1989 * Concerto No.4 for Cello and Chamber orchestra, 1994 * Concerto for Viola and Chamber orchestra, 1992 *
in memory of Gh. Saryan
, 2000. (published, Komitas publishing, Yerevan, 2001) * In memory for Chamber orchestra, celesta and percussion (in memory of

Avet Terteryan Alfred Roubenovich "Avet" Terterian (also Terteryan) ( hy, Ալֆրեդ "Ավետ" Տերտերյան, July 29, 1929 – December 11, 1994) was an Armenian composer, awarded the Konrad Adenauer Prize. Terterian composed eight (completed) symphon ...

), 1996 (published, Komitas publishing, Yerevan, 2001) * Concertino for String orchestra, 1996 (published, Komitas publishing, Yerevan, 2001) * Elegy for flute and string ensemble, 1998 * Junior concerto for piano and string orchestra, 1983 * String Quartet, 1982, Sovetakan Grogh publishing, 1983 * Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano, 1984, Komitas publishing, 2002 * Sonata for Flute and Piano, 2001 * , 1977, Soviet Composer publishing, 1980 * Sonata No.1 for Violin and Piano, 1976, Sovetakan Grogh publishingb, 1982 * , 1978, Soviet Composer publishing, 1984 * Piano sonata, 1980, Sovetakan Grogh publishingb, 1982 * Armenian graphics 5 pieces for piano solo, 1975, Sovetakan Grogh publishingb, 1982 * Cercio declamando for cello solo, 2001, Komitas publishing, 2006 * Nerses Shnorhali poem for flute, piano and reciter, 1975 * A gift to Komitas 7 pieces for piano solo, 1987, Komitas publishing, 2002 * Piano Sonatina No.1, 1968, Sovetakan Grogh publishing, 1985 * Piano Sonatina No.2, 1980 * Piano Sonatina No.3, 1981 * Piano Sonatina No.4, 1987, Komitas publishing, 2000 * Album for the Young for Piano solo, 1983, Komitas publishing, 2000 * Requiem for September for Chamber orchestra, dedicated to the victims of

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, 2003 * My coeval cycle for Chamber orchestra (1. , 2. All that remains, 3. , 4. Mass for the ghost), 2005–2006, Komitas publishing, 2006, Amrots Group publishing, 2011 * Call the Spring for Flute, Glockenspiel and chamber ensemble, 2007-2009 * Mozart's will for flute, oboe, clarinet in B, fagot, trumpet in B, trombone, timpani and chamber ensemble, 2008 * Black ball for flute, glockenspiel and chamber ensemble, 2007-2009 * , in memory of musicologist Irina Tigranova, 2011 * , 2011 * The death of the Legend for Piano solo, 2012 * String Quartet, in memory of composer

Edvard Mirzoyan Edvard Mik'aeli Mirzoyan ( hy, Էդվարդ Միքայելի Միրզոյան; May 12, 1921 – October 5, 2012) was an Armenian composer. Edvard Mirzoyan was born in Gori, Georgia. He called himself an atheist, but added, "There is only one plan ...

, 2012

References

* Feist, Thomas. “Glänzende Interpretation zejtgenössischer Musik. Armenisches Ensemble im Schauspielhaus gefeiert”. – “Neues Deutschland”. 25 Februar 1987. * Rukhkyan, M.A. - Portraits of the Armenian composers - Nairi publishing house, Yerevan, 2009, pp. 154–198 * Berko, M. - Hard but happy ways of cognition - Soviet music publishing house, 1978, No.4, pp. 14–17 * Meyer, K. - Armenian musical culture - Armenia today, 1980, No.2, p. 33 * Korikhalova, N. P. - Visiting leningradians - The voice of Armenia, January 4, 1991

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