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Arman Gushchyan
composer | educator | curator
2023
Forever is composed of Nows | Concert at the Lucerne Festival — World Premiere
September 7, 2023 | Lukaskirche | Lucerne, Switzerland | 12:15
Forever is composed of Nows (2023) for string quartet
Performance: Isidore String Quartet (USA)

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time.fragment | Concert at the reMusik Contemporary Music Festival
May 27, 2023 | Anikushin's Workshop | Saint Petersburg | 19:30
time.fragment (2009) for clarinet, violin and piano
Performance: Molot Ensemble (Saint Petersburg)

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Mass for organ | Concert "Organ. Sacred and Symphonic" — World Premiere
April 26, 2023 | Armenian Composers Union Concert Hall | Yerevan | 19:30
Cunctipotens Genitor and Beati Pauperes Spiritu (2023) from Mass for organ
Performance: Konstantin Volostnov

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time.fragment | Concert at the Crossroads Festival
April 26, 2023 | Arno Babajanyan Concert Hall | Yerevan, Armenia | 19:30
time.fragment (2009) for clarinet, violin and piano
Performance: Ensemble Assonance, conductor Artur Akshelyan

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Absolve, Domine | Concert of Laureates of AVANTI All-Russian composition competition
March 15, 2023 | Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory | 19:00
Absolve, Domine (2017) for vocal ensemble, violin and cello
Performance: INTRADA Vocal Ensemble, Ivan Naborshchikov (violin), Petr Kondrashin (cello)
Conductor – Ekaterina Antonenko

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Ø degrees | Concert in series «The Time Joint». Composers and Their Pupils
March 11, 2023 | Chamber Hall of Moscow Philharmonic | 19:00
Ø degrees (2016) for violin, cello, and prepared piano
Performance: Gallery of Actual Music Ensemble / GAM-Ensemble

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2022
Black Ocean — World Premiere
December 15/29, 2022 | Garage Museum of Contemporary Art | Online
Black Ocean (2022) for large ensemble and electronics
Performance: Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (МCME)
Conductor – Philipp Chizhevsky

Online premiere as a film-concert "2022"
An Aksenov Family Foundation project "Russian Music 2.0", third season.

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Absolve, Domine | Concert at the "Five Evenings" festival
December 3, 2022 | Rachmaninoff Hall of Moscow Conservatory | 19:30
Absolve, Domine (2017) for vocal ensemble, violin and cello
Performance: INTRADA Vocal Ensemble, Ivan Naborshchikov (violin), Petr Kondrashin (cello)
Conductor – Ekaterina Antonenko

Absolve, Domine received the 1st Prize at the AVANTI All-Russian Composition Competition
October 10, 2022
Absolve, Domine (2017) for vocal ensemble, violin, and cello
received the 1st Prize in the nomination "vocal music" at the 4th AVANTI All-Russian Composition Competition

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Theatre Play "How Pineapples Grow" — World Premier
March 21, 2022 | Theatre "Sovremennik" | Moscow
How Pineapples Grow
by Cazimir Liske documentary drama

Director – Georgij Surkov
Composer – Arman Gushchyan

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2021
Theatre play "The War Has Not Yet Begun" — World Premier
December 17, 2021 | Dramatic theatre of Kamsomolsk-on-Amur
The War Has Not Yet Begun
Mikhail Durnenkov

Director – Georgij Surkov
Composer – Arman Gushchyan

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[ V ] for viola and live-electronics — the premier of the audiovisual version
November 10, 2021 | Horror Vacui | Mutabor Club | Moscow
In collaboration with NET Festival and Year of Germany in Russia

Performers:
Yulia Migunova, cello
Arman Gushchyan, electronics
Lillevan (Berlin), video artist

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VOX – opera-Installation — World Premier
October 31, 2021 | MOSCOW THEATER "NEW OPERA"
Opera VOX
Composer Arman Gushchyan
Playwright Karina Besolti
Director Leonid Prokofiev
Scientists: Tamara Tsakhilova, Rafael Grigoryan, Nikolay Syrov
Scientific Consultant: Alexander Kaplan
Stage Designer: Maria Smirnova, Alexandra Polyakova
Light Designer: Alexander Romanov
Programming: Alexey Nadjarov
Video Engineer: Alexandra Komorova

On stage: Karina Besolti, Rinat Tashimiov, Ivan Mishkorez

Performing:
Ekaterina Palagina, the voice
Ensemble "Actual Music Galery"
Oleg Paiberdin, conductor

In framework of CoOPERAtion Project

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Theatre Play "An Enemy of the People" — World Premier
April 23, 2021 | Nothern Dramatical Theatre | Tara
An Enemy of the People
Henrik Ibsen

Director – Georgij Surkov
Composer – Arman Gushchyan

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2020
In Crosslights — Moscow Ensemble of Contemporary Music Concert
December 3, 2020 | " What makes music contemporary" | NCCA, Nizhni Novgorod
In Crosslights (a.k.a. Read Not Only) (2014) for 4 instrumentalists and 2 performers on objects

Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
Project's Curator - Ksenia Anufrieva

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Theatre Play "Fariatyev's Fantasies" — world premier
November 28-29, 2020 |"Sovremennik" Theatre | Moscow
Fariatyev's Fantasies
Alla Sokolova

Director – Georgij Surkov
Composer – Arman Gushchyan

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Two Haiku — «Studio for New Music» Ensemble and Reheard Concert
November 15, 2020 | Moscow Conservatory Myaskovski Hall
Two Haikus (2011) for flute and string trio
Soloist of «Studio for New Music» Ensemble and Reheard

Performing Alvin Lucier's "I am sitting in a room"
October 17, 2020 | Gnesin Contemporary Music Week Festival| Gnesin Russian Academy of Music
Presentation of the Russian edition of Alvin Lucier's book " Music 109. Notes on experimental music".

Arman Gushchyan, editor

Performance Alvin Lucier's "I am sitting in a room".

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Theatre Play "Briges" — World Premier
August 5, 2020 | Valmiera Drama Theatre | Valmiera, Latvia
Briges
by Robert James Waller "The Bridges of Madison County"

Director – Georgij Surkov
Composer – Arman Gushchyan

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Lecture series: PARADIGM SHIFTS IN COMPOSER MUSIC
March 28 — May 29 | ММОМА Educational Center | Online Broadcast
AMERICAN WAY. PATTERNS OF TIME AND MINIMALISM
March 28, 13:00 - 14:30

THE NATURE OF SOUND AND ITS MICROWORD AS A MODEL OF MUSIC. SPACE ACOUSTICS AS A CREATIVE MEDIUM
April 12, 13:00 - 14:30

MUSIC AND SPACE. STEPPING INTO THE TERRITORIES OF OTHER ARTS
April 25, 13:00 - 14:30

ELECTRONIC AND EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC IN XX AND XXI CENTURIES
May 29, 19:30 - 21:30

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Lectures and seminars in theatre school-laboratory "Theatre Lines"
January 20 – 27, 2020 | Center of theatrical arts| Nizhni Novgorod
Curator and lecturer of the music session of the theatre school-laboratory "Theatre Lines" under the direction of Victor Ryzhakov.

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2019
stillhörig — concert of the "Studio for New Music" Ensemble
October 26, 2019 | Moscow Forum Festival | Moscow Conservatory Rakhmaninov Hall
stillhörig (2013) for 13 instrumentalists (Russian premier)

«Studio for New Music» Soloist Ensemble
Conductor - Sergey Akimov

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Emancipation of Sound and Its Perception. Music as Organised Sound (lecture)
June 25, 2019 |ММОМА | Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Lecture series "Paradigm shifts in composer music of ХХ century". Third lecture

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Post-war Musical Avant-gard, Its Discourse and Crisis (lecture)
June 20, 2019 | ММОМА | Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Lecture series "Paradigm shifts in composer music of ХХ century". Second lecture

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New Wine into Old Wineskins, Old Wine into New Wineskins. Modernism in Search of Renewal of the Musical Language (lecture)
June 18, 2019 | ММОМА | Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Lecture series "Paradigm shift in composer music of ХХ century". First lecture

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0 degrees Ensemble Assonance Concert
May 28, 2019 |Crossroads 2019 Festival| Chamber Music House | Yerevan, Armenia
0 degrees (2016) for violin, cello, piano with three e-bows
Ensemble Assonance (Armenia)
Tereza Nacharyan, violin
Michael Navasardyan, cello
Anahit Dilbaryan, piano

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Master-class for Student-Composers of Yerevan Conservatory
May 26, 2019 | Crossroads 2019 Festival| Yeravn Conservatory| Armenia
Two HaikusEnsemble Assonance Concert
May 23, 2019 |Crossroads 2019 Festival| Komitas Institue - Museum | Yerevan, Armenia
Two Haikus (2011) for flute, violin, viola and cello
Ensemble Assonance (Armenia)
Narek Avakyan, flute
Iveta Korkina, violin
Mary Dolmazyan, viola
Michael Navasardyan, cello

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Letters and Waves (world premier) — Yuri Bashmet and Moscow Soloists Concert
May 9, 2019 | Yuri Bashmet's Festival | Yaroslav Filormony
Letters and Waves (2019) for viola, percussion and string orchestra
Yuri Bashmet, viola
Chamber orchestra "Moscow Soloist"
Roman Balashov, conductor

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2018
Sound Interior as Found Map of Space and Time (lecture)
December 2, 2018 | Other Space Festival | Moscow Filormony
Lecture-introduction to Gérard Grisey "Acoustic spaces" concert

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Gérard Grisey's Vortex Temporum with Arman Gushchyan's comments (lecture-concert)
November 27, 2018 |GROUND Khodynka Gallery | Moscow
Open Moscow Ensemble of Contemporary Music Concert rehearsal of Gérard Grisey Vortex Temporum with Arman Gushchyan's comments.

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Stanza — Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble Concert
November 20, 2018 | Moscow Autumn Festival | House of Composers
Stanza (2014) for alto flute, violin, cello and prepared piano
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (МСМE)
Ivan Bushuev, alto flute
Vlasidlav Pesin, violin
Yulia Migunova, cello
Mikhail Dubov, piano

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0 degrees II (world premier) — GAM-Ensemble Concert
November 15, 2018 | Moscow's Autumn Festival | House of Composers
0 degrees II (2018) for violin, cello, forte piano with three e-bows and live-electronics

GAM-Ensemble
Gleb Khokhlov, violin
Yulia Migunova, cello
Dasha Vorontsova, piano
Arman Gushchyan, electronics

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