SARDARYAN
HOVIK
HOVIK
Member of the Composers Union of Armenia since 2021
Born on 16/07/1993 in Hadrut
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)