“Et Lux perpetua luceat... Suren Zakarian. Afterword”.

Authors

  • SVETLANA KORYUN SARKISYAN Yerevan State Conservatory

Keywords:

Suren Zakaryan, Contemporary Armenian Music, compositions principles, meditation

Abstract

Dr. Sci. (Arts), Professor of the YSC Svetlana Koryun Sarkisyan. - “Et Lux perpetua luceat... Suren Zakarian. Afterword”. Analytical essay by Dr. Sci. (Arts), Professor of Yerevan State Conservatory named after Komitas Svetlana Koryun Sarkisyan is dedicated to Armenian composer and pianist, professor of Yerevan State Conservatory named after Komitas Suren Karo Zakaryan (1956-2021). The author explores Zakaryan’s creative path in the light of contemporary musical styles and composition techniques, paying special attention to eschatological concept of worldview. At the same time, the article analyzes the features of the individual manner of the composer who managed to harmoniously combine the various technical means into aesthetic integrity. A special place is devoted to the characteristic of meditative musical thinking.

Author Biography

SVETLANA KORYUN SARKISYAN , Yerevan State Conservatory

studied at the YSC and completed postgraduate studies at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory, where she obtained her PhD in 1975 with a thesis entitled "Development of Armenian Music in the 60s years of the 20th Century. Later, in 1999, she earned the title of Dr. Hab. of Musicology from the Moscow State Conservatory with a thesis entitled" Armenian Music in the Context of the 20th Century. From 1974 to the present, she has been Professor of Chair of Music Theory at the YSC. She has also lectured at music academies and conservatories in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Vilnius, Lvov, Maikop. She has participated at 72 symposia in Armenia, Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Great Britain, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Lithuania. Author of books: Problems of Contemporary Armenian Music., (In Russian), Yerevan, 1983; Armenian Music in the Context of the 20th Century. Research. Moscow, 2002; Armenian Music and Composers., (In Russian), London-Yerevan, 2004 (In English); Aram Khachaturyan, Reference Book. Yerevan, 2004 (In Russian, Armenian, English); At the Boundary of Centuries. Music and its Spheres. Moscow, 2014 (In Russian, Armenian, English, French, German) and about of 500 scientific articles in Armenian, Russian, Ukrainian, Georgian, Polish, Bulgarian, Hungarian, German, Croatian, Czech, Lebanon collections and journals. She has written articles on Armenian music and musicians in The Music Encyclopedia and Musical Dictionary (Moscow), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Ed. by S. Sadie, London, 1980), Grove Dictionary of Opera (London, 1992), Contemporary Composers (Ed. by P. Collins, B. Morton, London-Chicago, 1992), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians II. Rev.Ed. (Ed. by S. Sadie & J. Tyrrell, London, 2001) and Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Ed. by L. Finscher, Kassel), edited and compiled a few monographs and collections of scientific articles. Member of Union of Armenian Composers (Yerevan, 1975), International Music Union (Moscow, 2004). She was awarded the Honoured Worker of Culture of Armenia (Yerevan, 2009), Honoured for Polish Culture (Poland, 2013)

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Published

2021-09-20

How to Cite

SARKISYAN С. К. (2021). “Et Lux perpetua luceat. Suren Zakarian. Afterword” . Musical Armenia, 1(60), 60–65. Retrieved from https://yerazhshtakanhayastan.am/index.php/ma/article/view/57

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 60 (2021): Musical Armenia

Section

Articles