Hayg Boyadjian

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Hayg Boyadjian, born in 1938 in Paris to Armenian parents, is an American composer of classical music known for art song, chamber music, and symphonies. His solo works have been recorded by Opus One and Albany Records. He grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his family had moved when he was a child, and began his studies at the Franz Liszt Conservatory there. He moved to the United States in 1958, settling in Lexington, Massachusetts, and studied as a special student at the New England Conservatory and later at Brandeis University. In 1980 he received a fellowship to the MacDowell Colony. In 1991 he became the first American composer invited by the government of the newly independent Armenia to visit for rehearsals and performances, and he has returned several times. His piano concerto premiered in 2016 in Yerevan to celebrate Armenia’s 25th year of independence. Boyadjian is also an amateur astronomer and a member of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston; several of his works, including Perseus and Cassiopeia, are inspired by constellations, with motifs shaped to echo their star patterns.