Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan (), also known as Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory (YKSC) or Yerevan State Conservatory (YSC), is a state-owned

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located in

Yerevan Yerevan ( , , ; ; sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia, as well as one of the world's List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerev ...

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. The institute was founded in 1921 as a music studio. In 1923, it was turned into a higher musical education institution.About Us , Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory
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Komitas Soghomon Soghomonian, ordained and commonly known as Komitas (; 22 October 1935), was an Ottoman-Armenian priest, musicologist, composer, arranger, singer, and choirmaster, who is considered the founder of the Armenian national school of musi ...

, the founder of the Armenian national school of music.

Student Council

The

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is self-governed and is formed of students from different study years, who are chosen in the faculty student meetings. The chairman is chosen by the council members. The Student Council is aimed to defend students' interests, help them to solve their social and life problems and organize their free time. The council provides financial aid, nominal scholarships and removes the study fee fully or partially. The chairman of the council is co-opted to the YSC Rectorate. The students also delegate 25% of the Student Council staff to the Big Council of the YSC.

Orchestra

The YSC has a permanent student

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, chamber, and

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s orchestras, folklore choir and different chamber ensembles: trios, quartets, a wind sextet, etc. The Opera Studio with its symphony orchestra and choir is situated in one of the YSC buildings. The Studio has at its disposal the Big Hall with theater stage (275 seats), where the studio participants, both teachers and students: producers, conductors, orchestra musicians and choir singers, stage the operas. All the vocal parts in these operas are performed by the students of the Vocal Department. There are also three small concert halls in the Conservatory (80-100 seats in each one). They are used for the academic evenings, solo, class, faculty or jubilee recitals, annual session of the Top Student Society, student formal and informal meetings and "skills".

Rectors

* Romanos Melikyan (1923-1924) * Arshak Adamian (1924-1926) * Anushavan Ter-Ghevondyan (1926-1930) * Spiridon Melikyan (1930-1931) *Snar Snarian (1931-1932) *Georgiy Hovhannisyan (1932-1933) *Vardan Samvelyan (1933-1936) * Konstantin Saradzhev (1936-1937) * Samson Gasparyan (1937-1940) * Konstantin Saradzhev (1947-1954) * Grigor Yeghiazaryan (1954-1960) * Ghazaros Saryan (1960-1986) * Edgar Hovhannisyan (1986-1992) * Tigran Mansurian (1992-1995) * Armen Smbatian (1995-2002) * Sergey Sarajyan (2002-2011) *

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(2011-2018) * Sona Hovhannisyan (2018-)

Notable alumni

Mikael Tariverdiev Mikael Leonovich Tariverdiev, : (15 August 1931 – 25 July 1996, also Mikayel Levoni Tariverdian) was a prominent Soviet composer of Armenian descent. He headed the Composers' Guild of the Soviet Cinematographers' Union from its inception an ...

* Vartan Adjemian * Tatul Altunyan *

Robert Amirkhanyan Robert Babkeni Amirkhanyan (; born November 16, 1939) is an Armenian composer and songwriter. He is a professor at the Yerevan State Conservatory. He wrote over 300 songs, vocal series, operettas. Career In 1969 Amirkhanyan graduated from the ...

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Alexander Arutiunian Alexander Grigori Arutiunian (23 September 192028 March 2012), was a Soviet Union, Soviet and Armenian composer and pianist, widely known for his 1950 Trumpet Concerto (Arutiunian), Trumpet Concerto. A professor at Komitas State Conservatory of ...

Anzhela Atabekyan Anzhela Atabekyan (, born April 11, 1938, in Yerevan) is an Armenian kanun (kanon) player, musicologist, art historian, and professor at the Yerevan State Conservatory. She was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Armenian Soviet Sociali ...

* Khachatur Avetisyan *

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Arno Babajanian Arno Harutyuni Babajanian (January 22, 1921November 11, 1983) was a Soviet and Armenian composer and pianist. He was made a People's Artist of the USSR in 1971. Biography Babajanian was born in Yerevan on January 22, 1921. By age 5, his musical ...

Vahram Babayan Vahram Ohani Babayan (born 1948) is a contemporary Armenian composer, pianist, and music theorist Music theory is the study of theoretical frameworks for understanding the practices and possibilities of music. '' The Oxford Companion to Music ...

* Ani Batikian * Tsolak Bekaryan * Raffi Besalyan * Levon Chaushian * Geghuni Chitchian *

Gevorg Dabaghyan Gevorg Gourgeni Dabaghyan (born 12 February 1965) is an Armenian duduk player of liturgical and folk music, born in Yerevan. In 1991 he founded the Shoghaken Folk Ensemble, a group of Armenian folk musicians and singers who specialize in tradition ...

* Arsen Grigoryan (Mro) * Tigran Hekekyan *

Gagik Hovunts Gagik Hovunts (1 March 1930 – 1 September 2019) was an Armenian composer, born in Yerevan. He started his music education at the Alexander Spendiaryan Alexander Afanasyevich Spendiarov (, November 1, 1871, Kakhovka, Russian Empire – Ma ...

David Khanjyan David Hakobi Khanjyan (July 30, 1940February 1981) was a Soviet Armenian conductor and pianist. Khanjian was born in the family of Hakob Khanjian and Tatevik Sazandaryan. He finished the piano department of Yerevan State Conservatory, then ente ...

* Tigran Mansurian * Armen Martirosyan * Tigran Maytesian *

Edvard Mirzoyan Edvard Mik'aeli Mirzoyan (; May 12, 1921 – October 5, 2012) was an Armenians, Armenian composer. Edvard Mirzoyan was born in Gori, Georgia, Gori, Georgia (country), Georgia. He called himself an atheist, but added, "There is only one planet on ...

* Armen Movsessian *

Iveta Mukuchyan Iveta Roberti Mukuchyan (, ; born 14 October 1986) is an Armenian-German singer. Born in Yerevan, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, she moved to Hamburg, Germany, in 1992. Mukuchyan returned to Armenia in 2009 and placed fifth in the four ...

* Svetlana Navasardyan * Hasmik Papian * Konstantin Petrossian * Tovmas Poghosyan * Heghine Rapyan * Stepan Rostomyan * Vardan Sardaryan * Gevorg Sargsyan * Ghazaros Saryan * Aram Satian * Regina Gurgenyan * David Satian * Vache Sharafyan * Gerard Jirayr Svazlian * Eduard Topchjan *

Ara Torosyan Ara Arshaki Torosyan ((; born May 10, 1972), known in the Armenian music industry by his pen name ''Murzo'', is a music arranger and record producer.http://giftabound.com/podcasts/Ara-Torosyan.html He is widely recognized to be one of the best mus ...

* Anahit Tsitsikian * Julietta Vardanyan * William Weiner * Varduhi Yeritsyan *

Samvel Yervinyan Samvel Yervinyan (, born January 25, 1966) is an Armenian Violin, violinist and composer. Biography Yervinyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia. He began studying at the age of 9 in Alexander Spendiarian, Spenderian Music School under the tutoring ...

* Lusine Zakaryan * Tigran Mkrtchyan * Kaveh Vares
Vahagn Papayan

Anahit Papayan

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