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Tigran Hekekyan
Տիգրան Հեքեքյան
Born (1959-08-17) August 17, 1959 (age 64)
Yerevan, Armenia
NationalityArmenian
OccupationChoral Conductor
Years active1982–present

Tigran Hekekyan (Armenian: Տիգրան Հեքեքյան, IPA: [tigˈɾɑn hɛkʰɛkʰˈjɑn], born 17 August 1959)[1] is an Armenian conductor and music professor. He is the founder, artistic director, and principal conductor of the Little Singers of Armenia choir, as well as the founder and president of the Armenian Little Singers International Association. Hekekyan is a professor of conducting at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory. He also serves as the director of the Sayat-Nova Music School.

Biography

Hekekyan is a graduate of the Sayat-Nova Music School (1975, Piano Department) and Romanos Melikian Music College (1979, Choral Department) in Yerevan. He graduated from the Khachatur Abovian Armenian State Pedagogical University in 1982. In 1986, he completed his postgraduate studies in conducting at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory, where he has been teaching since 1985, as a professor since 1999.[2] He has also been the director of the Sayat-Nova Music School since 2003. As part of his creative endeavours spanning over four decades, Hekekyan has established and worked with several multi-award-winning choirs, notably the Children's Choir of the Spendiaryan Music School (1982–1988), the Female Choir of the Committee of Youth Organization (1986–1988), the Armenian National Radio Chamber Choir (1984–2002), and the Little Singers of Armenia (1992–present).[3][4][5]

Festivals and competitions

Choirs that Hekekyan has directed[which?] have won two silver medals at the Eisteddfod in Roodepoort, South Africa, 1993, a silver medal at the Eisteddfod in Llangollen, Wales in 1994, and a grand prix and two gold and silver medals at the Golden Gate International Children's and Youth Choral Festival, San Francisco, US in 1995.[citation needed]

Hekekyan and the Little Singers of Armenia have participated in various international festivals such as the European Festival of Youth Choirs (Basel, Switzerland, 1995, 2014),[6] Hong Kong and Beijing International Festivals (China, 1999), Golden Ferry (Sochi, Russia, 2001), Dimitria International Festival (Thessaloniki, Greece, 2002), Armenian-American Choral Festival Song of Unity (Armenia, 2004, 2006), Children's Friendship on the Planet (Moscow, Russia, 2010), Let the Future Sing International Festival (Stockholm, Sweden, 2012), 5th Children's Choir Festival (Thessaloniki, Greece, 2015),[7] Choral Festival in Fribourg (Switzerland, 2016), Abu Ghosh Vocal Music Festival (Israel, 2017),[8] International Children's Choir Festival (Dresden, Germany, 2018),[9] Tbilisi Choral Music Festival (Georgia, 2018),[10] Interkultur Video Award (2020),[11][12] Moscow Meets Friends International Festival (2020), Voices of Spirit International Choral Festival (Austria, 2021),[13] World Peace Choral Festival (Austria, 2021),[14] 25th Children of the World in Harmony International Youth Choir Festival (2021),[15] Choral Photo Promenade Photo Contest of the Europa Cantat Festival (2021), Soong Ching Ling International Youth Exchange Camp (2021), GCI 2nd Annual Virtual Holiday Concert (2021), XIV International Sacred Music Festival Silver Bells (2022).[16] The choir has also participated in EXPO 2000 (Hanover, Germany) and the Sixth World Symposium on Choral Music (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 2002).[17]

Tigran Hekekyan has performed extensively in Russia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark, Israel, Japan, the UK, Spain, Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, the USA, Canada, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Australia, South Africa, and China.[18]

He participates as a jury member in different international choral competitions. Hekekyan has also lectured in international symposia and festivals on the art of Armenian choral music and has been instrumental in the inclusion of choral works by Armenian composers in Oxford Press and Carus[disambiguation needed].[19]

Awards and recognition

Tigran Hekekyan was awarded the Movses Khorenatsi Medal by the President of Armenia for his contributions to the advancement of Armenian culture.[20] His contributions in the field of education earned him the honorary title of Prominent Educator by the President of Armenia in 2010. He was nominated as Cultural Ambassador of Europe by the European Federation of Choirs in 2001.[21][22]

He is a full member of the European Academy of Natural Sciences (Hanover, Germany), International Academy of Sciences of Nature and Society, International Federation for Choral Music, European Federation of Young Choirs, International Society for Children's Choral and Performing Arts, and the International Choir Olympic Council of the Interkultur Foundation and is an honorary academician of the Academy of Television and Radio of Armenia. Tigran Hekekyan was the artistic director of the Children and Youth International Festival Golden Ferry organized by PABSEC in 2001 and 2002 and was also nominated as the artistic director of the Aram Khachaturian Centenary Committee in 2003.[23]

Hekekyan is the founder and artistic director of the Ashtarak 93 festival, the 1st International Festival of Choral Art in Armenia;[24] Yerevan 96; Singing Armenia, 2001, held annually since 2006; United by Song, 2000; The Song of Unity, 2004 and 2006; With Song and Love, 2021.[citation needed]

Tigran Hekekyan's recordings have received many national and international awards[which?] and prizes[which?].[3]

References

  1. ^ "ՏԻԳՐԱՆ ՀԵՔԵՔՅԱՆ: Դիրիժոր" [Tigran Hekekyan: Conductor] (in Armenian). AVproductions.am. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  2. ^ Haykakan hamarot hanragitaran [Armenian Concise Encyclopedia] (in Armenian). Vol. 4. Yerevan: Nor-Dar Publishers. 2003. p. 340. ISBN 5897000190.
  3. ^ a b "Tigran Hekekyan | Music of Armenia". musicofarmenia.com. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  4. ^ Angelini, Andrea (30 December 2021). "4ème Concours International de Composition Chorale dédié à Komitas Vardapet, Le chant qui s'élève au-dessus des sommets enneigés de l'Arménie". The IFCM Magazine. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  5. ^ "Founder and Artistic Director - Little Singers of Armenia - children's choir-Biography - Little Singers of Armenia - children's choir". www.als.am. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  6. ^ "European Festival of Youth Choirs Basel, Participating choirs 1992–2018" (PDF). Europäisches Jugendchor Festival. June 2019. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  7. ^ "Concerts dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in Thessaloniki". www.mfa.am (in Armenian). Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  8. ^ LLC, Helix Consulting. "'Extraordinary, magical, unprecedented' – Little Singers of Armenia perform at Israeli music festival". www.panorama.am. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  9. ^ "Festival 2018 | Kinderchorfestival Dresden". www.kinderchorfestival-dresden.de. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  10. ^ "Choral Music Fest to bring ensembles from Georgia, abroad to Tbilisi". Agenda.ge. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  11. ^ "INTERKULTUR Video Award 2020: The Winners". www.interkultur.com. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  12. ^ "15th China International Chorus Festival with online premiere". www.interkultur.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  13. ^ "May 13 2021 | 18:00 | Music Heals Our Souls - Voices Of Spirit". web.archive.org. 13 May 2021. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  14. ^ Muriel Mirak-Weissbach (12 August 2021). "Gold Medals for the Little Singers of Armenia". The Armenian Mirror-Spectator. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  15. ^ "vwborders". www.vwbchoir.com. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  16. ^ "XIV International Sacred Music Festival Silver Bells, 14–16 January 2022" (PDF). Daugavpils.lv. 2022.
  17. ^ Sixth World Symposium on Choral Music: choral highlights., 2003, OCLC 56133594, retrieved 8 February 2022
  18. ^ "Contributors". www.tch.gr. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  19. ^ "World Peace Choral Festival | Leonard-Bernstein-Straße 8/2/2.1 1220 Wien, Austria". nms-fk.at. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  20. ^ "American Public Media - World Choral Symposium - Schedule". music.minnesota.publicradio.org. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  21. ^ "Koncert med et af verdens bedste børnekor - 'Little singers of Armenia'". Vor Frue Kirke - Københavns Domkirke (in Danish). Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  22. ^ "The Komitas Festival: An Event Dedicated to a Great Armenian Composer". International Choral Bulletin. XXXVIII (3). International Federation for Choral Music: 32. 2019. ISSN 0896-0968 – via Issuu.
  23. ^ "Tigran Hekekyan | nab.am". www.nab.am. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  24. ^ "Achtarak 93, 1st International Festival of Choral Art in Armenia". European Choral Magazine. 2. European Choral Association - Europa Cantat: 32. 1994.

Recordings

Little Singers of Armenia — Fuga A
Little Singers of Armenia — Rural Images
Radio Choir of RA — "Miss My Homeland"
Radio Choir of RA — "With a Sweet Dream"
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