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The Tchaikovsky Secondary Music School ( hy, Երևանի Չայկովսկու անվան երաժշտական դպրոց), is a secondary school in
The school was founded on April 19, 1939, and two years later it was named after
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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
Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ''Ox ...
which opened in 1939. The school is a specialized secondary school where a total of 600 students are enrolled in a 12-year education, while at the same time receiving 2 certificates of general and vocational education. Over 70 percent of the school's alumni attend the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan
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 colleg ...
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History and organization
The school was founded on April 19, 1939, and two years later it was named after Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , group=n ( ; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. He wrote some of the most popu ...
. Until 1975, 665 graduates have been awarded. In 1982, A sculpture of Tchaikovsky (made by architects Yervand Goghabashyan, and Jim Torosyan) was erected on the front of the school building. Since Armenian independence, the school has been renovated under the auspices of the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund.
It is up of piano, violin, cello, viola, contrabass, harp, brass and musical education departments. Besides the school's main curriculum, the school has a children's choir, an orchestra, and a band (which is made up of smaller symphonic, jazz, and brass bands).
Layout of the building
The central building has been completely upgraded and replenished with stalls, the gym has been reconstructed, the concert hall has a playground, comfortable conditions have been created for musicians and spectators. Special rooms were built for the school's symphonic, jazz, and brass band, the violin ensemble, and the choir.Notable alumni
* Anahit Nersesyan Anahit Nersesyan (In Armenian: Անահիտ Ներսիսյան, по-русски: Анаит Нерсесян), a famous Armenian pianist was born in 1954 in Yerevan. She studied at the Tchaikovsky Music School, Yerevan from 1961-72 with Professor ...
* Ara Torosyan
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* Araksi Sarian-Harutunian
* Geghuni Chitchian
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* Jean Ter-Merguerian
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Biography
Jean Ter-Merguerian has got the first prize for violin ...
* Medea Abrahamyan
Medea Abrahamyan ( hy, Մեդեա Աբրահամյան; 8 March 1932 – 3 March 2021) was an Armenian cellist, People’s Artist of Armenian SSR (1980) and Professor of the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory (1983).
Biography
Medea Abrahamyan w ...
* Ruben Aharonyan
Ruben Mikaeli Aharonian or Aharonyan ( hy, Ռուբեն Ահարոնյան; born 1947, Riga, Latvia) is an Armenian classical violinist. He has won second prize at the Enescu Competition in Bucharest and the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (197 ...
* Vahagn Hayrapetyan
Vahagn Hayrapetyan ( hy, Վահագն Հայրապետյան) (born August 30 1968) is a jazz pianist, singer and composer.
Honored Artist of Armenia.
Biography
Vahagn Hayrapetyan was born in Yerevan in the family of fiddler Karapet Hayrapetyan ...
* Sofya Melikyan
* Tigran Hamasyan
Tigran Hamasyan ( hy, Տիգրան Համասյան; born July 17, 1987) is an Armenian jazz pianist and composer. He plays mostly original compositions, which are strongly influenced by the Armenian folk tradition, often using its scales and mod ...
* Armen Poghosyan
Armen Anushavanovich Poghosyan (russian: Погос́ян Арм́ен Анушав́анович) (born 1 February 1974, Moscow
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See also
*Education in Armenia
Education in Armenia is held in particular esteem in Armenian culture. Education developed the fastest out of the social services, while health and welfare services attempted to maintain the basic state-planned structure of the Soviet era, follow ...
* Mkhitar Sebastatsi Educational Complex
Mkhitar Sebastatsi Educational Complex ( hy, Մխիթար Սեբաստացի կրթահամալիր), is a state-owned school located in the Malatia-Sebastia District of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. The school is named after the prominent Armen ...
* List of Armenian schools
Schools and universities in Armenia
Some of universities in Armenia:
*American University of Armenia
*Yerevan State University
* Yerevan State Medical UniversityRussian-Armenian State UniversityYerevan, ArmeniaUniversité Française en Arméni ...
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