SARDARYAN

HOVIK

Member of the Composers Union of Armenia since 2021

Born on 16/07/1993 in Hadrut

BIOGRAPHY

2001-2004 – Hadrut Music School (piano and vocal classes)

2004-2010 – Stepanakert Sayat-Nova music college (cello class)

2011-2014 – composition department at the Yerevan State Conservatory after Komitas (YSCK) (prof. A. Zohrabyan) (bachelor), then continued his studies at the master’s degree

2015-2018 – University of Music in Karlsruhe, Germany with a DAAD scholarship (prof. W. Riehm) (master’s degree)

2018-2020 – the University of Music in Karlsruhe, Germany (“Music Informatics” department, majoring “Sound Art”)

Since 2020 – Saar University of Music in Germany (prof. A. Herrmann (postgraduate))

2004-2007 – “Voices of Artsakh” project

2008-2010 – Artsakh State Chamber Orchestra (cellist)

“Cultural Society” NGO (vice president)

2010 – Quintet for 2 violins, viola, cello and piano

2010 – Vocal series for soprano and piano

2011 – “Arabesque” for clarinet, violin, cello and piano

2011 – “Four Songs” for soprano and piano (by M. Metsarents)

2011 – “Aquarelle” for violin and piano

2011 – “Impromt fantasia” for piano

2012 – “Fresco” for 8 cellos

2012 – “Fuming flames” for viola and piano (to Sayat-Nova)

2013 – “Madrigal” for soprano and cello (by R. Voskanyan)

2013 – “8 Ornaments” for flute and viola

2014 – Concerto for cello and orchestra

2014 – “Simulacres” for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano

2014 – “Flowers of Calvary” for mezzo-soprano, duduk, cello and piano by (D. Varuzhan and Bible)

2018 – “Uprooting, Graft In, Branch Out” string quartet

“Rot” for soprano, woodwinds, strings and piano

“Cellae” for strings, brass and piano

“Dragon” for chamber orchestra

2012 – “Renaissance” international competition (2nd prize)

2012 – the Esto Vest festival (award by the Xenia Association of Italy)

2014 – “Sayat-Nova” international competition (1st prize)

“Carnegie Hall Award” (winner)

“Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra Award” (winner)

2015 – The “Call for Scores” contest organized by the “Listerpony” British organization and “Wow Ensemble” (winner)

2018 – Wolfgang Riehm scholarship

2018 – the Tonali Composer Competition (finalist)

2019 – Competition organized by Ensemble Phoenix Basel (1st prize)

2019 – Busoni Prize of the Berlin Academy of Arts (encouraging committee)

2021/2022 – Schwarzkopf scholarship (award) by the Karayan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic

2021 – the Lucerne Festival (Roche Young Commission award)

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