Graduate Student
Biography
Tigran Arakelyan is the newly appointed Music Director and Conductor of the Federal Way Youth Symphony Orchestra and will take the orchestra on tour of South Korea in August of 2014. He is also the Music Director of the Whidbey Island Community Orchestra and Assistant Conductor of Whatcom Symphony Orchestra. Arakelyan is a doctoral student and a Teaching Assistant at the University of Washington under the mentorship of Maestro Ludovic Morlot and Dr. David Alexander Rahbee. He is the recipient of the 2013 Armenian General Benevolent Union Performing Arts Fellowship and Edward Hosharian Award for conducting studies.