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Homecoming Competition 2024 Finalists & Announcements

Congratulations

to the six finalists of the Homecoming Return To Artsakh National Composition Competition  2024!

Grigori Balasanyan "Recollection" 

Vahan Grigoryan "Khnocu Erg" 

Joan Huang "Yearning"  

Olivia Marckx "Vignettes"  

David Raiklen "The Road Home"   

Ian Wiese "And Churn"

Thank you to everyone who submitted scores for this project. All of the submissions are playable and of high musical interest.  There will be a reading (date TBA) of the scores not listed among the finalists. Appreciation for selecting the six finalist scores goes to Thomas E. Flaherty. Doctor of Musical Arts, cellist, composer, musicologist; and Deon Nielsen Price, Doctor of Musical Arts, composer, pianist.

Join us on September 28 at Glendale Presbyterian Church at 7PM for a wonderful culmination of this competition, featuring performances by the renowned Lyris Quartet and pianist Mathew Harikian.

Homecoming Return To Artsakh Compositions

1st Place

Yearning by Joan Huang

2nd Place

And Churn by Ian Wiese

3rd Place

Recollection by Grigory Balasanyan

Finalist

Vignettes by Olivia Marckx

Finalist

The Road Home by David Raiklen

Finalist/Audience Award Winner

Song of The Churn by Vahan Grigoryan

Meet Our Judges

Peter Peyman Farzinpour

Peter Peyman Farzinpour

Peter Peyman Farzinpour

 Peter Peyman Farzinpour enjoys a diverse career as a conductor, composer, multimedia producer, music professor, and arts entrepreneur. He is currently the Executive / Artistic Director and Conductor of the new music and multimedia group, ENSEMBLE / PARALLAX and Sinfonietta Notturna, as well as Director of Farzinpour Creative Music & Mult

 Peter Peyman Farzinpour enjoys a diverse career as a conductor, composer, multimedia producer, music professor, and arts entrepreneur. He is currently the Executive / Artistic Director and Conductor of the new music and multimedia group, ENSEMBLE / PARALLAX and Sinfonietta Notturna, as well as Director of Farzinpour Creative Music & Multimedia Ventures. He has traveled and conducted throughout major concert halls in the United States, Canada, and throughout Europe where he has conducted in France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Czechia, and Bulgaria. 

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Lucinda Carver

Peter Peyman Farzinpour

Peter Peyman Farzinpour

 Lucinda Carver is a much beloved and highly acclaimed musician who is equally at home at the piano, harpsichord and on the conductor’s podium. As music director and conductor of the Los Angeles Mozart orchestra for 11 years, Carver garnered critical praise for her stylistic interpretations of music from the Classical era. Active in both 

 Lucinda Carver is a much beloved and highly acclaimed musician who is equally at home at the piano, harpsichord and on the conductor’s podium. As music director and conductor of the Los Angeles Mozart orchestra for 11 years, Carver garnered critical praise for her stylistic interpretations of music from the Classical era. Active in both the symphonic and operatic arenas, she was proclaimed “a find….a first-rate conductor” by Bernard Holland of the New York Times and “an important emerging conductor” by Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times. 

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