In 2008, he was awarded 'Honorary Professorship' from Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory in Armenia. Şahan Arzruni has performed with Victor Borge, playing the role of straight man in Borge's concerts during the late 1960s, and appeared with Borge at the 1980 Royal Variety Show Command Performance where the pair performed Borge's classic comedic arrangement for duet piano of Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody.Īrzruni holds degrees from The Juilliard School and has pursued doctoral studies at New York University.

Şahan Arzruni is the author of books and a contributor of articles for academic journals he has also written for various editions of The New Grove Dictionary and the Dictionary of the Middle Ages. He also delivered papers and organized symposia for such institutions as Harvard University, Columbia University and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He researches traditional Armenian music and has recorded a three-disc anthology of Armenian piano music, and co-produced an eight-disc set of instrumental and vocal Armenian music. Motivated by ethnic awareness in the United States, Arzruni continuously investigates the musical roots of his Armenian heritage. Arzruni has given command performances at the White House, as well as the British, Danish, Swedish, and Icelandic courts. He appeared in television and radio broadcasts, including the The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Mike Douglas Show and a number of PBS specials he has recorded for European radio networks, including the BBC. There his principal teachers were Sacha Gorodnitzki in piano, Felix Galimir in chamber music, and Joseph Bloch in piano literature. He moved to New York in 1964 to study further at the Juilliard School of Music on a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He received his general education at Esayan and Getronagan Armenian Lyceums, and graduated from the Istanbul Municipal Conservatory, where he studied piano with Ferdi Statzer and harmony with Raşit Abed. The solution we have for Verdi composition has a total of 5 letters. This crossword clue was last seen on SeptemLA Times Crossword puzzle. Şahan Arzruni ( Armenian: Շահան Արծրունի) is an Armenian pianist, composer, ethnomusicologist, lecturer, writer and producer.Īrzruni (also transliterated as Ardzruni) was born in Istanbul, Turkey on June 8, 1943. While searching our database we found 1 possible solution for the: Verdi composition crossword clue.

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