Ghazaros Saryan and the New Phase in the History of the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory

Authors

  • Sofia Lazar Saryan Martiros Saryan House-Museum

Keywords:

Ghazaros Saryan, rector, composer, Yerevan State Conservatory, Moscow, Shostakovich, Great Patriotic War

Abstract

The article presents the life and career of Ghazaros Saryan, composer, People's Artist of the USSR and the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, State Prize laureate, Professor. For a quarter of a century he has been the rector of the Yerevan Conservatory, continuing the traditions of Romanos Melikyan, Arshak Adamyan, Anushavan Ter- Ghevondyan, Konstantin Saradzhev, Samson Gasparyan and Grigor Yeghiazaryan. During the years of his leadership, the Conservatory of Yerevan has established the Cabinet of Folk Music Arts, Departments of Chamber Ensemble and Wind Instruments, Department of Post-graduate Studies, and Organ Class.
Ghazaros Saryan was actively engaged in teaching. Prominent Armenian composers, as Tigran Mansuryan, Ruben Sarkisyan, Vardan Adjemyan, Ruben Altunyan, and others have graduated from the composition class under his leadership.

Author Biography

Sofia Lazar Saryan, Martiros Saryan House-Museum

Chief Curator of the Funds and the Head of the Vaults Department of the Martiros Saryan House-Museum. Granddaughter of the great artist Martiros Saryan, daughter of the composer Ghazaros (Lazar) Saryan, and the musicologist Araksi Saryan. She received her secondary education at the P. I. Tchaikovsky Music School (1978-1989) and later graduated from the Departments of Philology (1989-1994) and History of Arts (1990-1992) at the Yerevan State University. In 1993 she started to work at the Martiros Saryan House-Museum as a research assistant and guide. She has researched and systematized M. Saryan's personal archive, as well as conducted excursions in Armenian, Russian, English, and French. Since 2004 she is the Chief Curator of the Museum. She is the content author and editor for the official website of the M. Saryan House-Museum. In 2020 she published Catalog of M. Saryan's paintings and graphic works.

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Published

2022-10-26

How to Cite

Saryan Ս. Ղ. (2022). Ghazaros Saryan and the New Phase in the History of the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory. Musical Armenia, 2(61), 4–6. Retrieved from https://yerazhshtakanhayastan.am/index.php/ma/article/view/63