Composer Tatev Amiryan presented her new album in the USA

On May 7, at Crowden Music Center in Berkeley, California Armenian composer and pianist Tatev Amiryan presented her newly released album "Ortus". 

The album includes her piano compositions of recent years performed by Armenian pianist, Honored Artist of Armenia Hayk Melikyan. During the presentation, Amiryan talked about her collaboration with Hayk Melikyan and the idea and creation of the album. The presentation was followed by her performance of solo program featuring pieces by Armenian composers Komitas, A. Babajanian, R. Andreasian, E. Mirzoyan, as well as some of her compositions included in the CD.

Amiryan composes in different genres, including vocal, instrumental, chamber and symphonic.  Her music has been performed in the United States, Armenia, Russia, England, Poland, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, and Japan by such renowned ensembles and performers as Carpe Diem String Quartet, Ensemble Oktoplus, Metropolitan Choral of Kansas City, pianists Artur Avanesov and Hayk Melikyan, and thereminist Thorwald Jørgensen.  

She has received such awards as the 1st prize at the Armenian Allied Arts 71st Annual Composition Competition, the UMKC Chamber Music Composition Competition, and the Metropolitan Chorale of Kansas City’s Chorale Composition Contest, as well as the 2nd Prize at Ariel Recordings Fifth International Piano Composition Competition. 
 

She was a recipient of the Dr. Carolann S. Najarian Scholarship from the Armenian International Women’s Association, the AGBU Performing Arts Fellowship from the Armenian General Benevolent Union and the Women’s Council GAF Award from University of Missouri-Kansas City Women’s Council. 

Amiryan has performed extensively in Armenia and in the United States, both her own music, pieces from classical and contemporary repertoire, and piano improvisations. She has presented lectures and lecture-recitals at a number of international conferences and festivals in the United States and in Europe, including Women in the Arts International Conference at University of Missouri-St. Louis, Women Composers Festival of Hartford at Hartt School of Music in Connecticut, London International Piano Symposium at the Royal College of Music, the 12th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities in Honolulu, Hawaii, and the 3rd Hildegard Festival of Women in The Arts at California State University in Stanislaus. 

Currently, Amiryan is a DMA Doctor of Musical Arts candidate at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music, working on her dissertation. She also teaches at Crowden Music School in Berkeley, California and serves as a lecturer at Ex'pression College for Digital Arts in San Jose, California.