Biography

Izabella Konstantinovna Arazova (Arazian) was born in Rostov-na-Donu, Russia

Russia

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. She studied music at Melikyan Music College from 1955 to 1958, composition with Orest Yevlakhov at the Leningrad Conservatory from 1961 to 1963, and composition with Edvard Mirzoyan

Edvard Mirzoyan

Edvard Mirzoyan , is an Armenian composer.Mirzoyan was born in Gori, Georgia. Initially schooled in music in Yerevan and graduated from the Komitas State Conservatory, Mirzoyan went on to Moscow to further refine his art. In late 1956 he was elected president of the Armenian Composers’ Union, a...

 at the Yerevan Conservatory from 1964 to 1967. After completing her studies, she taught orchestration, composition and harmony at the Pedagogical Institute in Yerevan until 1990. In 1967 she became a member of the Armenian Composers' Union.

Arazova's works have been performed in Armenia

Armenia

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, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

, Estonia

Estonia

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, Ukraine

Ukraine

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, the USA, Japan

Japan

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, France

France

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 and Switzerland

Switzerland

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. She has resided in Yerevan since 1942.

Works

Selected works include:

• String Quartet no.1, 1965
• Polyphonic Choruses (S. Kaputikyan), 1966
• Concerto for Orchestra 1967
• 6 Allegories (V. Grigoryan), 1v, pf, 1969
• Elegy, vc, pf, 1969
• Triptych, symphony (Kaputikyan), chorus, orch, 1972
• 3 yaponskikh stikhotvoreniy (3 Japanese poems from the Middle Ages), 1v, pf, 1979
• 5 Retrospections, pf, 1983
• Sonata no.1, vc, 1983
• Sonata no.2, vc, pf, 1984
• Perpetuum mobile, vc, pf, 1985
• Sonata, pf 1985
• Sonata no.3 ‘Sonata-Mystery’, vc, pf, 1987
• The World is Just a Dream (Japanese poems from the Middle Ages), 1v, pf, 1988
• Sonata, vn, pf 1991
• String Quartet no.2, 1991
• Quattro, 4 vc, 1995
• Prayer, orch, 1996