Biography - Koryun Asatryan

Koryun Asatryan, born in Armenia in 1985, started his saxophone lessons at the college of music in Yerevan under Prof. A. Manukyan in 1993 after a brief interlude on the piano. From October 2000 he studied in Dortmund under Prof. Daniel Gauthier with whom he continued his study from October 2003 onwards at the conservatoire of music in Cologne. He finished the studies in Cologne in 2009 with Konzertexamen. In 2002 he participated in master classes of Prof. Delangle and Prof. Bornkamp in Gap / France. During the 2005/06 winter semester, Koryun Asatryan took lessons from Prof. Arno Bornkamp in Amsterdam. In 2006 he attended master classes of Prof. Jean-Marie Londeix in Slovenia.

Since 1999 Koryun Asatryan has been winning various competitions in Moscow, Yerevan, Kiev, Hamburg, Oldenburg, Berlin and Bayreuth. It is of a particular note his enormous success in May 2004 at the “12th Eurovision Competition for Young Musicians”, Lucerne, where he won 2nd prize representing Germany. At the beginning of October 2006 he received the 1st prize and the prize for the best performance of a contemporary composition at the first international “Aeolus wind instrumentalist competition“ in Düsseldorf. On May 2008 he won the “Hülsta-Woodwind Competition” in Münster.

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