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from the The Leader (October 2021)
"Led by Arakelyan, a highly-esteemed conductor across the Pacific Northwest, the all-volunteer group will perform three classical pieces composed by Alan Hovhaness, Brenno Blauth, and Leoš Janácek. Arakelyan has brought a new level of competence to the nonprofit, bringing an annual chamber music program and a higher degree of passion and pride. Under the instruction of Arakelyan, the group’s sound and tone is anything but amateur..." Click here for full article.

Featured on the front cover of Peninsula Daily (October 2021)
Front cover (click here)  and article (click here).

​2021-2022 | Tigran is the newly appointed Music Director of ORS of Tacoma. He continues as the Music Director of Northwest Mahler Festival (2018-), Port Townsend Symphony (2017-), Federal Way Youth Symphony (2014-) and Bainbridge Island Youth Orchestras (2015-). 

October 2021 |  Tigran will conduct the Pacific Northwest premiere of Concertino for oboe and strings by Brenno Blauth with soloist Anne Krabill.

February 2022 | He will be the narrator for a new program presented by renowned violist and composer, Melia Watras.