Dialogues about Levon Chaushyan: An Interview with Musicologist, Doctor of Art History Margarita Rukhkya

Authors

  • Sahenik Hakob Maghakyan Yerevan State Komitas Conservatory

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58580/18290019-2024.1-2-82

Keywords:

Levon Chaushyan, Vahram Babayan, Margarita Rukhkyan, Sahenik Maghakyan, composer, Composers’ Union of Armenia, quartet, chamber art, Armenian Musical Assembly, composition, Armenian Armenian compositional school, dialogues

Abstract

Pianist, Concertmaster, Professor, and Professor at Yerevan State Conservatory after Komitas Sahenik Hakob Maghakyan. - "Dialogues about Levon Chaushyan: An Interview with Musicologist, Doctor of Art History Margarita Rukhkyan".Prominent Art Figures - composer, Honored Artist of Armenia, and Professor Vahram Babayan, along with musicologist and Doctor of Art History Margarita Rukhkyan - engage in dialogues with pianist, concertmaster, and Professor at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory Sahenik Maghakyan. They reflect on the creative achievements of composer and public figure, Honored Artist of Armenia, and Professor Levon Chaushyan, as well as the significance of his public organizational activities in Armenian musical life during the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and his active civic position in the social life of Armenia

Author Biography

Sahenik Hakob Maghakyan, Yerevan State Komitas Conservatory

((born on March 26, 1963 in Yerevan). In 1986, she graduated conservatory (a class of Prof. V. V. Sargsyan). From 1986 to 2003 worked as a teacher of piano in the musical school. Eqimyan. Since 1993 in YSC, she is a concertmaster at the department of wind instruments. From 1999 to 2001, she studied in a postgraduate study in YSC (class of Prof. Z.Zaqaryan). Since 2003, teaches in YSC, since 2013, she is a docent. Among her pupils and students, there are winners and students of republican and international competitions. Participated as a concertmaster in the international festivals devoted to A. Khachaturyan (2003), A. Terteryan (2004). In republi-can competitions of wind instruments, she has been awarded with diplomas and certificates, repeatedly participated in international competition festival ''Renaissance" in Gyumri (all soloists are winners); the international competition of vocalists afterV. V. Barsova in Sochi (D. Avetisyan got a diploma). She had solo concerts with soloists-wind players, which took place in Moscow in Academy of Gnesiny (the soloist, the singer, the professor, of YSC, the laureate of the international competition of M. Hovsepyan), the thematic evenings devoted to G. Sviridov, M. Tariverdiev, etc. Together with M. Hovsepyan has executed a cycle of concerts "The Russian vocal music". The first performer, the concertmaster of S. Aznauryan's works - a vocal cycle on verses of M. Sargsyan devoted to Lusine Zaqaryan and the opera "Hope" (soloist M.Ovsepyan). In 2014 at the first timepresented in the Union of composers S. Aznauryan's opera of "Chikareli's Adventure". Author of articles: "About the modestperson and the bright musician" (//Musical Armenia No. 4 (35) 2009 op. 56-58), "A vocal cycle of V. Babayan, "Autmn inKiso's mountains" (/the Bulletin of the Yerevan State Conservatory after Komitas 2011-2012, 8-9.1, p. 63-74), "Piano "images"" in the monoopera of the Sofa Aznauryan "Hope" (in the same place, p. 74-82), the oboist's Portrait //Musical Armenia No.1-2 (40-41), 2011. p. 83-86), "Stars of the Slovak opera in Armenia" (//Musician (Yerazhist) No. 9, 2014. p. 6), "Unfinisheddialogue" (//Musician (Yerazhist) No. 10, 2014p. 7).

References

«Levon Ch’aushyani kyank’i gitsy», // «Hayastanidzayny», seria, 05.05.2016):

«Havatarmut’yun idealnerin», // «Hayastani dzayny»,16.05.2013):

Rruhkyan M., Hay kompozitorneri dimankarner, seria,2009:

Published

2024-08-09

How to Cite

Hakob Maghakyan С. (2024). Dialogues about Levon Chaushyan: An Interview with Musicologist, Doctor of Art History Margarita Rukhkya. Musical Armenia, (66-67), 82–88. https://doi.org/10.58580/18290019-2024.1-2-82

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