Suren Zakarian

(1956 — 2021)

Suren Zakarian was an Armenian contemporary composer, pianist, professor, and the chairman of the Yerevan Komitas Conservatory, author of piano and string concertos, chamber-instrumental, symphonic, and choral compositions. His works were performed in the US, Europe, Russia, and the Caucasus.

His language was formed under the influences of the Second Viennese School and Neo-Impressionism; these forces manifested themselves in the first instance in his individual use of rows of 12 or fewer pitches, in polyphonic textures and thematic harmony, and the second instance in the presence of pointillism alongside sonoristic and spatial techniques. In both cases, microstructures determine formal scale and methods of development, while systems of thematic and coloristic opposition often acquire conceptual significance.
Emotional intensity, poetry, and science characterize his music with major inspiration taken from nature.

1976 — 1981- trained as a pianist with Prof. Lev Vlasenko, Moscow, Russia.
1982 — 1985- trained as a composer with E. Mirzoyan at the Komitas Conservatory in Yerevan, Armenia.
1985 – laureate of two prizes in the All-(Soviet)-Union Composers Competition, Moscow.
1990 — awarded the first prize for the Violin Concerto at the Wieniawski Composition competition, in Poland.
1986 – 2021 – was teaching piano & composition at the Komitas Conservatory in Yerevan, Armenia.
2002 – 2017 – was the chairman of the Yerevan Komitas Conservatory.
1985-2015 — throughout the years his works were performed in Armenia, France, Greece, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, and the US.
2017 — awarded a medal of Mesrop Khorenatsi – Armenia’s highest award for outstanding achievements and advancement in the sphere of culture.

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