Hovik Sardaryan, who did his master degree from 2015 to 2018 in the composition class of Wolfgang Rihm, is one of this years Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation award winners in the composition category.
The Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation awards three annual sponsorship prizes in the field of composition, each worth €35,000, to support outstanding young artists in contemporary music.
Hovik Sardaryan (*1993, Armenia) is a composer based in Berlin. He studied composition at the Yerevan State Conservatory with Ashot Zohrabyan and continued his studies in Germany with a DAAD scholarship at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe with Wolfgang Rihm. In 2024, he completed the Konzertexamen in Composition at the Hochschule für Musik Saar with Arnulf Herrmann. His works range from chamber to orchestral music and have been performed in various European contexts. Among his distinctions are the Busoni Sponsorship Award of the Berlin Academy of Arts (2019) and First Prize at the Trabant Competition of Ensemble Phoenix Basel (2019). In the 2021/22 season, he was a recipient of the Schwarzkopf Composition Fellowship of the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic. His orchestral work Ikone was commissioned within the Roche Young Commissions and premiered at the Lucerne Festival in 2023. Recent commissions include Agni for ensemble and electronics (ensemble mosaik) and …and the Sun was Green… for 24 musicians (Klangforum Wien).
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