Vache Sharafyan

Vache Sharafyan (Armenian: Վաչե Շարաֆյան), (born February 11, 1966 in Yerevan, Armenia) One of the major composers in Armenia, but also internationally Vache Sharafyan is the author of more than ninety compositions including symphonic works, chamber music, choral, vocal music, including the opera "King Abgar", and ballet "Second Moon".

Praised as " stark, mysterious and ultimately majestic " by The New York Times, " complex, deliberate, ultimately captivating " by Boston Globe, " ingenious... , kaleidoscope of iridescent timbres..., magical " by TheStrad, "fascinating and expressive" by David Harringtone /Kronos Quartet/, Sharafyans music was commissioned/performed/recorded worldwide by artists like Yo-Yo Ma, Silk Road Ensemble, Yuri Bashmet and Moscow Soloists, The Hilliard Ensemble, Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP, cond. Gil Rose), Anne Akiko Meyers, Hover Choir, Metropolitan Artists in Concert, Avalon quartet, Soli Deo Gloria Psalm Project, MATA Ensemble (New York), Amsterdam Atlas Ensemble (Ed Spanjaard), Sion Festival (Switzerland), Dilijan Chamber Music series /LA/, Jacaranda Music on the Edge Fest (USA), Cello + festival and MSU (USA), Elba Isola Muzikale (Italy), Del Nazione Fest (Italy), Tony Arnold, Theo Bleckmann, Daniel Plaster, Scott Ramsay, Carl Thiemt, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Irkutsk Philharmonic Orchestra (Ilmar Lapinsch), Mansfield Symphony (Robert Franz), State Academic Symphony Orchestra of St. Petersburg, Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra (Eduard Topchjan), National State Chamber Orchestra of Armenia (cond. Emin Khachaturyan, Aram Gharabekian, Vahan Mardirossian), Rostok Philharmonics Symphony and Choir, Dresdner Sinfoniker /cond. Andrea Molino, Premil Petrovic/, Toronto Sinfonia /Nurhan Arman/, Thuringer Sinfoniker /cond. Oliver Weder/, violinists Movses Pogossian, Guillaume Sutre, Colin Jacobsen, Haik Kazazyan, Varty Manuelian, Karen Shahgaldyan, Kaja Danczowska, Johny Gandelsman, Boris Brovtsin, Tigran Maytesian, Pavel Vernikov, cellists Suren Bagratuni, Alexander Chaushian, Mario Brunello, Peter Stumpf, Erik Jacobsen, Boris Andrianov, Aram Talalyan, Eduard Arron, Peter Bruns, Armen Ksajikian, Steven Walter, bassist Michael Valerio, pianists Andrew Armstrong, Joel Fan, Deborah Moriarty, Eric Stumacher, Ksenia Bashmet, Artur Avanesov, Nathanael Mey, saxophonists James Houlik, John Sampen, James Forger, James Umble, Nick Prost, violists Nils Moenkemeyer, Maxim Novikov, Matthias Worm, Yuri Gandelsman, Nicolas Cords, Lyda Argerich, clarinetists Andy Miles, Michael Norsworthy, Zerafin ensemble (Amsterdam), percussionists Kunico Kato, Joseph Gramley. Apple Hill Chamber Players, PNME (cond. Kevin Noe, Robin Fountain), Atanassov Trio (Paris), guitarist/composer Marc Sinan, Fugata Quintet (UK), Baird Trio, Pittsburgh Trio, Khachaturyan Trio, Tchaikovsky Trio, Quintette à vent de Marseille, SionFest, conductor George Pehlivanian, dudukists Gevorg Dabaghyan, Araik Bartikian, Djivan Gasparyan, Emmanuel Hovhannisyan, among many others.

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