On December 21, 2009, the Boston Choral Ensemble announced Vahram Sargsyan as the winner of the Ensemble’s 3rd annual Commission Competition. Just last week, we talked more about the process and promised to introduce you to Vahram soon.
Vahram Sargsyan, 2009
Vahram Sargsyan is an Armenian composer who has written orchestral, chamber and choral works that have been performed in his homeland, in Europe and in North America; Vahram is also active as a conductor. Born in 1981 in Yerevan, Armenia, Sargsyan studied from 1996–98 at the P. Tchaikovsky Musical College, moving to the Ashot Zohrabyan at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory from 1998–2003. There, he also studied conducting with Tigran Hekekyan and composition with Ashot Zohrabyan.
His music has been performed in Armenia, the UK, Germany, Austria, Belarus, Greece, Poland, Italy, Canada, as well as in the USA. His composition Luis Zvart was performed at the 6th World Symposium on Choral Music (Minneapolis, Minnesota 2002). His arrangement of Khorurd Metz (Great Mystery) is included in the Oxford University Press anthology World Carols for Choirs (2005) and has been recorded by BBC Singers.
Sargsyan has had commissions from Oxford University Press (UK), MPAW Vocal Ensemble (Germany), A.R.CO.VA. (Italy) and others. His honors include the 1st prize in the International Contest for New Choral Compositions in Petrinja, Croatia (June 2009, for Anegh Bnutiun); an award from World Armenian Congress for “Creative attainment of the Armenian contemporary composer’s art” (2009, for Mythis); a winner prize at the European Seminar for Young Composers (Aosta, Italy 2008, for Laudate Dominum); and an award in the Choral Composition Competition in Yerevan, Armenia (2006, for Tantum ergo).
Vahram Sargsyan founded the Armenian Chamber Voices in Yerevan in 2005 and has since served as its conductor.
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