To the Anniversary of Composer Sofa Aznauryan: Book and Piano Album Presentation

Authors

  • Lianna Hrachya Sargsyan Department at A. Babajanyan State Music-Pedagogical College in Yerevan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58580/18290019-2024.1-2-154%20

Keywords:

Sofa Aznauryan, composer, musicologist, editor, anniversary, “Not Summing Up Yet”, “Music for Children”, piano album, opera, mono-opera,, “Hope”, “The Adventures of Chikareli” Artvin

Abstract

First-year student of the Music Theory Department at A. Babajanyan Yerevan State Musical-Pedagogical CollegeLianna Hrachya Sargsyan. - “To the Anniversary of Composer Sofa Aznauryan: Book and Piano Album Presentation”.In 2024, the remarkable Armenian composer, musicologist, and editor Sofa Aznauryan celebrated her anniversary. On this occasion, the book "Not Summing Up Yet: Composer Sofa Aznauryan" and the piano album "Music for Children" were published. In this article, the author outlines the general characteristics of the composer's creative portrait, highlights certain distinctive features of her musical language, and introduces her recently published book and piano album to the reader

Author Biography

Lianna Hrachya Sargsyan, Department at A. Babajanyan State Music-Pedagogical College in Yerevan

(born in Sergiyev Posad, Russia). In 2015, she was admitted to the Children's Music School (CMS) No. 3. During her studies, she participated in various music competitions in solfeggio, composition, vocal, and piano performances. She was awarded a First-Class Diploma in the "First Swallows "International Arts Competition in the Federal Online Project for instrumental performance (2021); the First Prize in the"Musical Dictation Competition" for CMS and AS students of the Sergiyevo-Posad Municipal District (2017); the Second Prize in vocal-choral art (2017), in the "Estrada-Jazz Singing" IV International Festival-Competition (2019), and in the "Talent-2019" V International Television Competition; the Third Prize in the Vocal-Choral Art CompetitionFestival (2019). She also participated in the Sergei Prokofiev All-Russian Composition Competition (2018), where she performed both as a participant and a performer. In 2021, S. continued her studies at the CMS in Mytishchi (Moscow region). She was a singer in the choir "Tradition", a multiple laureate of numerous choral competitions. Since 2023, S.has been living in Armenia. That same year, she graduated with honors from the "Jean and Albert Poghosyan" AS in Gyumri and later from H. Danielyan CMS in Yerevan. She is currently a first-year student of the Music Theory Department at A. Babajanyan State Music-Pedagogical College in Yerevan.

References

Ne podvodya itogi. Kompozitor Sofa Aznauryan, Yerevan: Tigran Mets, 2024.

Published

2024-08-09

How to Cite

Hrachya Sargsyan Л. (2024). To the Anniversary of Composer Sofa Aznauryan: Book and Piano Album Presentation. Musical Armenia, (66-67), 154–157. https://doi.org/10.58580/18290019-2024.1-2-154

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