KOMITAS AND THE ART OF COMPOSITION
September 26 - October 8, 2025
October 7 | Concert Hall of Komitas Museum-lnstitute
Conference Opening
Session I "Komitas And The Art Of Music Composition"
ANNA ASATRYAN | Dikran Tchouhadjian’s "Garoon" (Spring) arts song and Komitas’s "Voh Inch Anoosh" (Oh, How Sweet) Choir Song
ARTUR AVANESOV | Formation Through Metamorphosis: different versions of Komitas’s piano dances and Ashot Zohrabyan’s piano
sonata
NARINE AVETISYAN | Different Approaches to folk and sacred music in Mikhayil Kokzhaev’s oeuvre
ANNA AREVSHATYAN | Komitas Vardapet –Tigran Mansurian:The power of legacy
TATEV BADALYAN Scientific Adviser: Anna Khachatryan | Armenian composers whose professional activity took place in europe: Stéphan Elmas
LILIT YERNJAKYAN | Ruben Sargsyan’s dedication “To Komitas”
NARINE SAHAKYAN | Manifestations of music style transformations in Aram Khachaturian’s sonatas for solo instruments
TETIANA KAPLUN | Archetypal bases of creativity of contemporary odessa composers
KRZYSZTOF SZATRAWSKI | Komitas and armenian composers in the ECM catalogue – on aesthetic and moral aspects of contemporary musical culture
SESSION II
"Komitas and medieval music"
EDUARD TORIGIAN | The relative pitches in the armenian modern music notation system based on informatio related by Komitas
October 8
Session III "Komitas And Folk Music"
ANNA ADAMYAN I Manifestations of folklore in the creative heritage of Komitas Vardapet and Heitor Villa-Lobos (comparative review)
ISABEL BAYRAKDARIAN I Ancestral children’s songs: Komitas, Toumajan, Ganachian
LINDA SARGSYAN I Scientific Adviser: Marianna Tigranyan I dance-tunes of Artsakh in Komitas Vardapet’s notes
SONA SIMONYAN I Komitas’s arrangements of the folk song "Tonight, a moonlit night"
MARIANNA TIGRANYAN I The dance tune "Deriko" in the notes of Komitas Vardapet: ancient roots of worship and rituals
Session Iv
"Turning To Komitas"
RAFFI KHARAJANYAN I Komitas and Latvia
LILIT HARUTYUNYAN TZOVINAR ARTZROUNI I "Now I sing only to myself". archival documents pertaining to the last period of Komitas’s life
HASMIK HARUTYUNYAN I Transformations in the 20th century traditional armenian instrumental music
ASTGHIK MARTIROSYAN I Komitas’s last glance: retracing the journey of Komitas’s death mask
ANI MUSHEGHYAN I Komitas’s legal guardian: Vramchabouh Kibarian
SEDA SHEYRANYAN I Komitas Vardapet and the development paths of Armenian choir music
LUSINE SAHAKYAN I Komitas Vardapet and his epoch
MARIAM VARDANYAN Scientific Adviser: Lusine Sahakyan I Armenian classical poetry in the works of Komitas Vardapet (based on the analysis of some song samples)