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Place of Birth: Yerevan, Armenia
About Vache Sharafyan
- Vache Sharafyan (Armenian: ???? ????????), (born February 11, 1966 in Yerevan, Armenia) One of the major composers in Armenia, but also internationally Vache Sharafyan is the author of more than hundred compositions including symphonic works, chamber music, choral, vocal music, including the opera "King Abgar", one act ballet "Second Moon", ballet in acts "Ancient Gods". Praised as " stark, mysterious and ultimately majestic " by The New York Times, " complex, deliberate, ultimately captivating " by Boston Globe, " ingenious...
- , kaleidoscope of iridescent timbres..., magical " by TheStrad, "fascinating and expressive" by David Harringtone /Kronos Quartet/, Sharafyans music was commissioned/performed/recorded worldwide by artists like Yo-Yo Ma, Silk Road Ensemble, Yuri Bashmet and Moscow Soloists, The Hilliard Ensemble, Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP, cond.
- Gil Rose), Anne Akiko Meyers, Hover Choir, Metropolitan Artists in Concert, Avalon quartet, Soli Deo Gloria Psalm Project, MATA Ensemble (New York), Amsterdam Atlas Ensemble (Ed Spanjaard), Sion Festival (Switzerland), Dilijan Chamber Music series /LA/, Jacaranda Music on the Edge Fest (USA), Cello + festival and MSU (USA), Elba Isola Muzikale (Italy), Del Nazione Fest (Italy), Tony Arnold, Theo Bleckmann, Daniel Plaster, Scott Ramsay, Carl Thiemt, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Irkutsk Philharmonic Orchestra (Ilmar Lapinsch), Mansfield Symphony (Robert Franz), State Academic Symphony Orchestra of St.
- Petersburg, Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra (Eduard Topchjan), National State Chamber Orchestra of Armenia (cond.
- Emin Khachaturyan, Aram Gharabekian, Vahan Mardirossian), Rostok Philharmonics Symphony and Choir, Dresden Symphony Orchestra /cond.
- Andrea Molino, Premil Petrovic/, Toronto Sinfonia /Nurhan Arman/, Thuringer Sinfoniker /cond.
- Oliver Weder/, violinists Movses Pogossian, Guillaume Sutre, Colin Jacobsen, Haik Kazazyan, Varty Manuelian, Karen Shahgaldyan, Tigran Maytesian, Kaja Danczowska, Johny Gandelsman, Boris Brovtsin, Pavel Vernikov, cellists Suren Bagratuni, Alexander Chaushian, Mario Brunello, Peter Stumpf, Erik Jacobsen, Boris Andrianov, Aram Talalyan, Jeffrey Zeygler, Oncay Csaba, Zoltan Csaba, Larchikov cello-duo, Eduard Arron, Peter Bruns, Armen Ksajikian, Steven Walter, bassist Michael Valerio, pianists Svetlana Navasardyan, Andrew Armstrong, Joel Fan, Deborah Moriarty, Eric Stumacher, Ksenia Bashmet, Artur Avanesov, Nathanael Mey, saxophonists James Houlik, John Sampen, James Forger, James Umble, Nick Prost, violists Nils Moenkemeyer, Maxim Novikov, Matthias Worm, Yuri Gandelsman, Nicolas Cords, Lyda Argerich, clarinetists Andy Miles, Michael Norsworthy, Zerafin ensemble (Amsterdam), percussionists Kunico Kato, Joseph Gramley, Shane Shanahan.
- Apple Hill Chamber Players, PNME (cond.
- Kevin Noe, Robin Fountain), Atanassov Trio (Paris), guitarist/composer Marc Sinan, Fugata Quintet (UK), Baird Trio, Pittsburgh Trio, Khachaturyan Trio, Tchaikovsky Trio, Quintette Ă vent de Marseille, SionFest, conductor George Pehlivanian, dudukists Gevorg Dabaghyan, Araik Bartikian, Djivan Gasparyan, Emmanuel Hovhannisyan, Metropolitan Museum of Arts commission 2018 /"The Sound of Stone" with visual artist Kevork Mourad/ among many others. Sharafyan's music is widely performed in his native country and also in the most prestigious international halls in USA (including 6 performances to date at Carnegie Hall Stern, Weill, Zankel), Italy, Russia, France, Canada, Ukraine, Georgia, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Holland, Thailand, Lebanon, Hungary, Switzerland, Spain, Taiwan, Japan, China, Scotland, Mexico, Israel, Poland, Ireland, England, Iceland, Latvia, Greece, Cyprus and Sweden.
- He has also been invited to many contemporary music festivals in the US or Europe. As an official composer for the Silk Road Project since 2001, his compositions “The Morning Scent of the Acacia’s Song” and ”The Sun, the Wine and the Wind of Time” were performed by cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble in Cologne, Brussels Philharmonic halls, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, in USA: including Carnegie Hall (Stern, Weill, Zankel), Berkeley, Stanford Universities, Seattle Benaroya Hall, Washington National Mall, Chicago Symphony Hall, in Rome, Florence, Milan. In 1990 graduated with distinction from the Yerevan State Conservatory, Composition Department.
- In 1992 received Post-Graduate education, class of Prof.
- E.Mirzoyan.
- Prize-Winner, All-Union Composers’ Competition in Moscow (1985). In 1992-96 Professor of music at Jerusalem Theological Armenian Seminary.
- Authored a Book of Chants for Holy Sepulchre Church, Jerusalem. Sharafyan's 2007 world premieres include Viola concerto ”Surgite Gloriae” with duduk, descant, baritone and orchestra premiered by Yuri Bashmet & “Moscow Soloists” at Elba Isola and Moscow Conservatory Grand Hall Philharmonics Season Opening. “Sinfonia 2 un poco Concertante” was commissioned by Boston Modern Orchestra Project, cond.
- Gil Rose and premiered in 2008 at Jordan Hall. Sharafyan has been a prize winner in the 1986 All-Union Composers' Competition in Moscow. Sharafyan has been a BMI Composer since 2002. Publishers: G.
- Schirmer, Editions BIM CDs on Albany records (New York)- Trio 2 "dream of dreams", "blooming sounds", Traditional crossroads (New York "sun, wine wind of time", Two Devotions, Arrangements and transcriptions", BIS records(Sweden) - Suite for cello and orchestra, Crane for cello, duduk, piano, LouthCMS (Ireland) 2 hymns sung by HILLIARD Ensemble. Nominated to "Civitella Ranieri Fellowship" in 2006, Italy.
- Bogliasco Arts Center fellowship, 2013, Italy Guest professor at UCLA in 2011.
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