Michel Petrossian

Michel Petrossian (born 1973) is a French-Armenian composer of classical music.

Career Born in Yerevan, Armenia, Petrossian studied cello and guitar and then studied composition at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris, from which he graduated in 2001. He has given duo performances on guitar with the Egyptian percussionist Gad Hesham and in 1998, with Jérôme Combier, co-founded Cairn, a contemporary music ensemble of fellow students from the conservatoire.

Selected works

Solo Overcoming Trakart, for cello La lutte ardente du vert et de l'or, for piano Manuela with the broken finger, for clarinet

Ensemble Feu pale, for 6 instruments Autel des parfums, for 9 instruments

Voice Le miroir et le masque, three melodies for voice and instrumental ensemble "Huitan" "Rose sombre" "Lysanxia" En Ein Anéin, for soprano and recorder

Orchestra Iris lunaire, for choir and orchestra Château du double de Ptah Epiphaneia, for six singers and orchestra Sur la surface de l'abîme, for string orchestra In the wake of Ea, for piano and orchestra