SARDARYAN

HOVIK

Member of the Composers Union of Armenia since 2021

Born on 16/07/1993 in Sevan

BIOGRAPHY

2010–2014 – Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan (Yerevan, Armenia), composition with Prof. Ashot Zohrabyan, Bachelor

2015–2018 – Karlsruhe University of Music (Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe), composition with Prof. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Rihm, Master

2020–2024 – University of Music Saar (Hochschule für Musik Saar), composition with Prof. Arnulf Herrmann, Konzertexamen

«Միստիք Վարդ» (“Mystical Rose”) – for soprano and piano (2011)

“Aquarelle” – for violin and piano (2011)

“Fresco” – for eight cellos (2012)

“Fuming Flames” – for viola and piano (2012)

“8 Ornaments” – for flute and viola (2013)

“Madrigal” – for soprano and cello (2013)

Cello Concerto – for cello and orchestra (2014)

“The Flowers of Golgotha” – for mezzo-soprano, duduk, cello, and piano (2014)

“Simulacres” – for ensemble (2015)

“Red | White” – for soprano and large ensemble (2017)

“Nu” – for cello (2018)

“uprooting, graft in, branch out” – string quartet (2018)

“Višap” – for large ensemble (2019)

“Cellae” – for ensemble (2020)

“quellen” – for two pianos (2023)

“The Joy of Blossoming” – for ensemble and electronics (2023)

“Ikone” – for orchestra (2023)

“… iube me venire ad te super aquas” – for duduk and oboe d’amore (2023)

“engendering the Sun in Floods” – for ensemble (2024)

“AGNI” – for clarinet/bass clarinet and ensemble with electronics (2024)

“… and the Sun was Green…” – for 24 musicians (2025)

2014 -“Sayat Nova” International Composition Competition, 1st Prize, Carnegie Hall Prize and Armenian National Philharmonic Prize (New York)

2015–2018 – DAAD Scholarship for a Master’s degree

2018 – Wolfgang Rihm Scholarship

2019 – Trabant 1st Prize from Ensemble Phoenix Basel

2019 – Busoni Sponsorship Award from the Academy of Arts Berlin (Akademie der Künste Berlin)

2021–2022 – Schwarzkopf Composition Scholarship within the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic

2021–2023 – Roche Young Commission (Lucerne Festival)

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