A Priceless Gift to Komitas Scholars and Admirers

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  • Anna Grigor Asatryan Institute of Arts of NAS RA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58580/18290019-2024.1-2-142%20

Keywords:

Institute of Arts of NAS RA, , Komitas, Collected Works, second edition, first volume, solo songs with piano accompaniment, Robert Atayan, Martiros Saryan, Davit Deroyan

Abstract

Director of the Institute of Arts, NAS RA, Doctor of Arts, Professor, RA Honored Art Worker Anna Grigor Asatryan. - “A Priceless Gift to Komitas Scholars and Admirers”.The first volume of the second edition of The Collected Works of Komitas has recently been published. By the decision of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Arts of NAS RA, "Gitutyun" Publishing House has released the first volume of the second edition of The Collected Works of Komitas, comprising his solo songs with piano accompaniment, featuring a bilingual(Armenian-English) foreword. Edited by Robert Atayan and prepared for publication by Davit Deroyan, this edition includes Martiros Saryan's forzats.

Author Biography

Anna Grigor Asatryan, Institute of Arts of NAS RA

(born in 1968, Yerevan). Musicologist, Honored Art Worker of Armenia, Doctor of Arts, professor. Graduated from the Faculty of Singing and Music Theory at Yerevan State Komitas Conservatory (1992). In 2001, she completed postgraduate studies at the Institute of Arts of the NAS of Armenia(academic supervisor G. Geodakyan). In 1991-200,2 has been teaching at Yerevan Romanos Melikyan Music College.A. Asatryan has been working at the Institute of Arts of the NAS of Armenia as a researcher (2002-2003), academic secretary (2003-2005), deputy director (2005-2021), and acting director (since 2021). In 2009-2016, she has been head of the Department of Art of Armenian Diaspora and International Relations, and the head of the Department of Music at the Institute of Arts of the NAS of Armenia. She has been academic secretary (2003-2014), a member of the Academic Council of the Institute of Arts of the NAS of Armenia (2012-2021), and its Chair (since 2021). Academic Secretary of the Specialized Council on Art History (016) of the Supreme Certifying Committee at the Institute of Arts of the NAS of Armenia (since 2004). Since 2019, she is the Chief Editor of Art History Magazine published by the Institute of Arts of the NAS of Armenia. Since 200,2 she is the Chair of the Tigran Chukhajian Foundation; Vice President of the Academy of Humanitarian Studies (since 2010). Since 2013, she is the member of the Union of Composers of Armenia; a member of its Board (2017) and the Council (2022). Anna Asatryan has been a member of the Public Council of the RA (2009-2018), member of the Council of Elders of the First (2009-2013), Second (2013-3017) and Third (2017-2018) terms in Yerevan Municipality. In 2014 and 2017, she was the delegate from Araratian Pontifical Diocese at the Armenian Apostolic Church Representative Assembly. She is a member of the Academic Council of the Komitas Museum Institute (since 2015); the member of the Academic Council of the Aram Khachaturyan House Museum (since 2022). Anna Asatryan is the author of 11 monographs and around 220 research articles on modern and contemporary Armenian music. Fifteen PhD dissertations were defended under Asatryan's academic supervision.

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Published

2024-08-09

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Grigor Asatryan Ա. (2024). A Priceless Gift to Komitas Scholars and Admirers. Musical Armenia, (66-67), 142–145. https://doi.org/10.58580/18290019-2024.1-2-142

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2024: Musical Armenia

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