| The piano faculty comprises four piano Departments, each of them presenting a staff of specialists sharing common artistic principles. Various pianist schools are presented here. They carefully preserve the old traditions and the precepts of their instructors. However their own creative work, active interaction of different techniques and methods have long formed a new artistic entity, the Armenian piano school, graduates of which have become prize-winners of the Bach, Schuhmann, List, Busoni, Queen Elizabeth of Belgium and other contests. The faculty provides possibilities for the students to have public concerts both within the Conservatory and in concert halls, in other cities and towns of the country and abroad. You can put yourself to the test in the Conservatory, republican and international contests. A performing pianist may also attend organ classes which means an additional speciality, that of a performing organist. |
 Head of department - professor Anahit Bogdanian |
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Head of department - professor Rozalia Tandilian |
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Head of department - professor Willy Sargsian |
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Any professional musician, let him be a vocalist, violinist or composer, can not do without the keyboard. At this department students of different levels of proficiency and artistic inclinations and specialization (with the exception of the students of the Piano Departments) are taught to play this universal instrument. Head of department - professor Eleanora Gasparian |
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It is well acknowledged that not all the pianists go straight into the music profession as solo- performers nor are they attracted by the prospect of teaching music. There is one more specialty that can be majored in at the Conservatory. The Accompaniment Department will help you in that. In the course of five years you can gain professional experience playing in ensembles with singers, instrumentalists or wood-wind players. Head of department - professor Ada Hakobian |
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AND THEORY OF INTERPRETATION AND PEDAGOGICS The variety of 'stylistic interpretation' of Bach, Schubert, Mozart, Debussy, Brahms or Khachatourian and many others, the comparative analysis of different interpretations, the questions of fingering, pedaling, the organization of home work, the problems of basic technique and interpretation skills is the range of problems covered by lecture courses and small group seminars on history of interpretation and teaching methods. The department is initiating students into the essentials of pedagogics and music psychology and majores them in the art of improvisation of both small and extended lengthy pieces, cycles in classical forms as well as in jazz forms. Head of department - professor Irina Zolotova |
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Dean - professor Edward Tatevosian Armenian violin and cello school of performers has long gained the world concert halls. Numerous prizes at the most prestigious contests held in Montreal, Moscow, Paris, Brussels, Genoa, the world reputation of Armenia's solo instrumentalists and the Komitas Quartet as well as invitation of many Armenian instrumentalists-pedagogues to act as tutors in conservatories of many states in Europe, Asia, America testify to this. And yet instrumentalists are trained not only to become soloists but also to keep the long tradition of our well known orchestras and groups. Orchestra playing is taught to a professional standard on a full-time basis and there are three orchestras in Yerevan Conservatory- two Chamber and one symphony orchestra, where young musicians obtain special skills essential for their future orchestra career. |
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Head of department - professor Gagik Smbatian |
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Head of department - professor Edward Tatevosian |
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The Department of Woodwind and Brass Instruments with it's oboe, flute, trumpet, trombone, French horn, clarinet, bassoon, tuba, saxaphone classes fosters high musical culture in the students and gives a thorough training leading to a fundamental career in music. The department is staffed with recognized professional musicians, all of them former performers and now teachers and authors of many books and manuals of teaching methods. Head of department - professor Yuri Balian |
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AND QUARTET What musician does not like ensemble playing? Our students are willing to attend chamber and quartet-music classes, where they are initiated into diversity of music styles - instrumental sonnets by Mozart, Beethoven, Schuhmann, Grieg, trios by Rachmaninov, quartets by Shostakovich, etc . Head of department - professor Alla Berberian |
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The main task of this department is not only to acquaint the students classical and modern woodwind chamber music repertoire, but also to train them to play in ensemble, which is indispensable for their future careers in professional orchestras and ensembles. Head of department - professor Levon Brutian |
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Armenia has always been famous for marvellous voices, but it is well known, that any voice, like a gem, needs special working up and treatment. The task of seeding high professional mastership in future singers as well as the formation of their artistic individuality is the priority of this department. The "Maria Callas" and the "Verdi Voices", international competitions in Rio de Janeiro, Toulouse, in Portugal, the Netherlands, the USA, Canada, Spain, Germany are just a little part of the list of such contests where the students of this department have become prize-winners. Head of department - professor Gohar Gasparian |
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The Department provides an opportunity for those interested in choir music \ conducting to study it professionally. You will get acquainted with vast publications on choir music, the history and theory of choir performing, learn sight-reading the choir sheets and scores and techniques of choir conducting, arranging. In one word: you will be given a thorough theoretical and practical preparation for a successful career as a choir conductor. Head of department - professor |
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Head of department - professor Yuri Davtian |
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The Department of Operatic Instruction is closely connected with the Department of Vocal Arts. Indeed, no singer can be ranked as true professional unless he can enter 'mise en scene' and feel at ease and comfortable in the make up and dress of any epoch or do professionally any part; as well as co-operate with the conductor, orchestra, ensemble partners etc. You will study all these at this Department. Many wonderful performances were staged by the students under the supervision of experienced tutors in the Opera-Studio of the Conservatory. Among them "La Serva Padrona" by Pergolesi, "Aleco" by Rachmaninov, "Iolanta" by Tchaikovsky, "Pagliacci" by Leoncovallo, "Cosi fan tutte" by Mozart, "Gianni Schicchi" by Puccini, "Porgy and Bess" by Gershwin and others. Head of department - professor Tigran Levonian-Khandikian |
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High artistic standards and competence of the teaching staff contribute greatly to the reputation of this department. Indeed, the best composers, musicians whose works are performed throughout the world give the benefit of their knowledge and mastery to the younger generation. Head of department - professor |
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The art of music in it's historical development, the evolution of national composition schools and stylistic trends, musical genres and their interaction are only part of the range of the courses at the department. All those on the staff are active musicians, scholars, the authors of many monographs, articles, booklets and dissertations. Head of department - professor Araxia Sarian |
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The Armenian musical culture has several thousand years to it's credit and folklore is it's unfailing and inexhaustible source of invigoration. The department of Armenian Music Folklore, where they do deciphering, decoding, processing and editing folk songs, has become a center of investigation. Head of department - professor Alina Pahlevanian |
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The Department of Folk Instruments is one of the youngest in the Conservatory. Though recently established, it has considerably improved the performance skills on folk instruments such as pipe, sring, doudouk, zurna, canon, tar, santour, dhol, kyamancha and others. Not only young people from our republic, but musicians from the USA, Argentina, France, Lebanon, Syria are developing and improving their musical skills at the department. The department has a folk orchestra in which students get a thorough practical training for successful career as well as necessary skills for conducting such orchestras. Head of department - professor Arzas Voskanian |
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The newly established department carries on studies of seventeen-century old Christian music, which started to be created and performed in Armenia with the adoption of Christianity as a state religion (301 A. D.). The department is aimed to train specialists in this branch of Armenian culture and also to give general idea of the development of Armenian music to the students of all other specialities. In future the department is planning to train musicians for Armenian communities and congregations all over the world. Head of department - Archbishop Nerses Bozabalian |