Vardan GYODAKYAN
AWARDS
2025 Pianissima International Competition
2nd Prize (Marcq-en-Barœul, France)
2023 “AGBU Discovers Talents” Piano Competition
Grand Prix (Yerevan, Armenia)
2022 AGBU Performing Arts Scholarship
2023 Rietava International Singing Competition
Best Accompanist (Rietava, Lithuania)
2022 Lithuanian Education Exchanges Support Foundation Scholarship 2022 AGBU Performing Arts Scholarship
2022 Giulio Rospigliosi International Piano Competition
1st Prize (Lamporecchio, Italy)
2021 XXI Century Art International Music Competition
1st Prize (Odesa, Ukraine; Online)
2021 International Magnus Piano Competition
3rd Prize (Kaunas, Lithuania; Online)
2021 Listofonija Piano Competition
3rd Prize (Vilnius, Lithuania)
2020 The Best Student of The Year
RA Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports
2020 Putra International Piano Competition
3rd Prize (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Online)
2019 Gohar Gasparyan Pan-Armenian Singing Competition
Best Accompanist (Yerevan, Armenia)
2018-2019 Arno Babajanian Scholarship 2017-2018 Arsen Sayan Scholarship
2016 Eleventh Youth Delphic Games of the CIS Member States
3rd Prize (Moscow, Russia, Online)
2015 III Arno Babajanian International Piano Competition
1st Prize, 2 Special Prizes (Yerevan, Armenia)
CONCERTS AND PROJECTS
2025 Performance of Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No.3 with Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra
Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall, Yerevan, Armenia
2025 Performance of Franz Schubert’s “Winterreise” with Giedrius Prunskus
Kaunas State Philharmonic Hall, Kaunas Lithuania
2025 The Miracle of Pomegranate (Music Book of Piano Pieces by Armenian Composers)
Co-author and Editor, first music book of Armenian Composers published in Lithuania
2025 Amicitia Sonans International Music Competition – Festival
Jury Member, Performance in Kaunas Philharmonic Hall. Kaunas, Lithuania
2025 Concert Dedicated to Armenian Genocide
Solo and Duo performances, Church of St. Johns, Vilnius, Lithuania
2024 Concert in Chateau de Compiegne
Solo and Duo Performance, Chateau de Compiegne, Compiegne, France
2024 Solo Recital in Stuttgart
Solo Performance, Die Christgemeinschaft, Stuttgart, Germany
2023 Performance of Mozart’s Concerto for two pianos with Alexander Paley and Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra
Kaunas Philharmonic Hall, Kaunas, Lithuania
2023 Performance of Liszt – Piano Concerto No.2 with Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra
Kaunas Philharmonic Hall, Kaunas, Lithuania
2023 Kapan International Music Festival
Solo Performance, Kapan State Art College Organ Hall, Kapan, Armenia
2023 Recital in Stuttgart
Solo Performance, Die Christgemeinschaft, Stuttgart, Germany
2023 Gala Concert of Festival “Amicitia Sonans”
Solo Performance and Accompaniment, Kaunas Philharmonic Hall, Kaunas, Lithuania
2023 Solo Recital in Kaunas
Kaunas Juozas Naujalis Music Gymnasium, Kaunas, Lithuania
2023 Solo Recital in Gyumri
Gyumri Technology Center, Gyumri, Armenia
2023 Contemporary Music Concert
Solo Performance, Mozarteum Kleines Studio, Salzburg, Austria
2022 “Zartonk” Academy
Concerts and Masterclasses, Stepanakert, Artsakh
2022 Concerts in Support of Ukraine
Kaunas Culture Center, VMU Aula Hall, M. and K. Petrauskas House-Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania
2022 Concert dedicated to Lithuanian Independence Restoration Day
Solo Performance, Žalgiris Arena, Kaunas, Lithuania
2021-2022 Concerts and Educational Programs (More than 30 concerts)
Accompaniment and Solo Performances, M. and K. Petrauskas House-Museum, Kaunas Philharmonic Small Hall Kaunas, Lithuania
2021 Concerts Dedicated to Franz Liszt
Solo Performance, VMU MA Concert Hall, Prienai culture and leisure center, Hall of Trakai Island Castle, Klaipeda Stasys Šimkus Conservatory, Vilnius Organum Hall
2021 Opening Ceremony of Third Century University
Solo Performance, Kaunas State Philharmonic Hall, Kaunas, Lithuania
2021 Chamber Music Performances
Arno Babajanyan Concert Hall, Naregatsi Art Institute, Komitas Museum-Institute, Hall of Composers Union, Aram Khachaturian House-Museum, YSC Concert Hall, Louise Manoogian-Simone Hall of Aram Khachaturian Hall, National Center of Chamber Music, Yerevan, Armenia
2021 Piano Competition of Sayat-Nova Music School
Jury Member
Since 2020 ANM Artist
Solo and Duo Performances, Online Concert Recording in Komitas Museum-Institute, Digital CD
2020 “Charity-Concert” of Gratitude
Harpsichord performance, Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall, Yerevan, Armenia
2020 “Commemoration Night”, Concert at Tsitsernakaberd
Duo Performance
2019 Performance of Grieg’s Piano Concerto with YSC Student Orchestra
Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall, Yerevan, Armenia
2019 Premiere of Komitas’ Nocturne
National Centre of Chamber Music in Yerevan
& Paruyr Sevak House-Museum in Zangakatun, Armenia
2016 Premiere of Haro Stepanian’s “Children Pieces”
Komitas Museum-Institute, Yerevan, Armenia
2015 Piano Recital in Gyumri
Hall of Kara-Murza Musical College, Gyumri, Armenia
2015 “Edgar Hovhannisyan” Festival
Solo Performance, Aram Khachaturian House-Museum, Yerevan, Armenia
2013-2021 Member of “Meknark” State Target Program
Various Concerts and Gala-Concerts in Yerevan and more than 7 regions in Armenia
2012 Concert at St John’s Smith Square
Solo Performance, London, United Kingdom
2012 Piano Recital in Gyumri
Small Hall of Yerevan State Conservatory Gyumri Branch, Gyumri, Armenia
2011 8th Annual COAF Holiday Gala Concert
Solo Performance, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The USA
