BARKEV TASLAKIAN
Choir Master & Conductor

* Born in ‘Anjar (Lebanon) 1964, he was turned to music since his early boyhood, playing on different musical instruments, without any previous musical education.
* Early 1980’s, realizing the urge to be musically educated, and not having the means for it, he tried to be self-educated with notes and different aspects of music.
* 1986 he started conducting the “Ardzivian” choir, and there-on his musical journey began.
* 1992 till 1998 he studied and practiced conducting with conductor Haroutyoun Topikian and composer Yervant Yerkanian. They both taught him at Parsegh Kanatchian musical academy in Beirut.
* Since 1997 he attends yearly courses in Armenia with different musicians and conductors. 
* As of now, he conducted:

• The ARDZIVIAN Choir (Anjar)
• The KOMITAS Choir (Anjar)
• The St. PERGITCH Choir  (Beirut)
• The OUSSAN Choir (Beirut)
• The KOMITAS Chamber Choir  (Yerevan, Armenia).
• The HOMENETMEN SCOUT MARCHING BAND (Anjar).
• The Canadian Lebanese Marching Band (Rashaya).

* Currently he conducts:

• The FAYHA Choir (Tripoli, North Lebanon).
• The KOUSSAN CHAMBER CHOIR (Beirut).
• The University of Balamand Choir (Lebanon)
• The American University of Science and Technology (Lebanon)

* He conducted the above-mentioned groups in: Lebanon, Armenia, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Cyprus, Nagorny Karabakh, Poland, France, …
* He has won many awards of appreciation from:

• His Holiness Catholicos Aram Keshishian of Kilikia.
• His Holiness Patriarch-Catholicos Beatitude Nerses
• Bedros XIX of Kilikia Armenian Catholic.
• The Lebanese Ministry of Culture.
• The Armenian Cause Committee.
• He Armenian Ministry of Culture.
• The Union of Municipalities of Feyha (North Lebanon).
• “Thaqafat” Music Promotion Association.
• Safadi Foundation

* With these groups above, he won:

• The "International Warsaw Choir Festival 2007" Best Conductor, Warsaw, Poland.
• The "International Warsaw Choir Festival 2007" First Prize.
• The "International Warsaw Choir Festival 2005" Second Prize (conducting the Fayha Choir) Warsaw, Poland.
• The "Tripoli National Choir Festival 2001" First Prize (conducting the Komitas Choir), Tripoli, Lebanon.

* He is currently member of the Syndicate of Professional Artists in Lebanon.

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