Arshak Andriasov was born on February 6th, 1980, in New York City to a musical family, who came to the United States in 1979 from Moscow, Russia (the former Soviet Union). His father, the late Iosif Andriasov, was a world-renowned composer and philosopher of Armenian heritage; his mother, Marta Andriasova (Kudryashova), is a musicologist, Dozent of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, owner of IMMA Publishing.
Arshak began to play the piano at the age of three, and at the age of six entered the Lucy Moses School of Music. He studied piano with Boris Slutzky. Arshak started to compose at the age of fourteen and studied with his father, Iosif Andriasov; Daniel Thompson (Lucy Moses music school); and Shafer Mahoney (Hunter College). Mr. Andriasov also studied piano, ear training, solefege, harmony, theory, form analysis with his mother, Marta Andriasova (Kudryashova) and Daniel Thompson, as well as piano, orchestration, polyphony, and conducting with his father.
Since the age of six, Arshak has performed in numerous school recitals at the Lucy Moses School of Music and was invited to appear outside the school in special concerts for seniors and service organizations. He has also given recitals in New York City at the Merkin Concert Hall, Abraham Goodman House, Steinway Hall, The Salvation Army, and The Juilliard School. In 1995, Arshak performed his own composition at “Amerathon”, a festival of American Music, “From Charles Ives, through Aaron Copland, to Present” at the Merkin Concert Hall. In the fall of ‘94, Arshak performed at the Special Gala Celebration dedicated to the opening of the new Quarters of the St. Sergius Academy on the Upper East Side in New York City. The concert was broadcast by American and Russian television. There were greetings and congratulations from Mayor R. Guiliani, Senator A. D’Amato and Senator P. Moynihan. Representatives of the Consulate General of Russia also attended this Gala.
Mr. Andriasov was the Assistant Conductor of the BMCC Downtown Orchestra from 1997 until 1999. He regularly conducts his father’s compositions with the San Francisco Student Philharmonic. Arshak also performs his own music and recently recorded his Seven Preludes for Piano Op.1, as well as his First Piano Sonata Op.4, which is in one movement, at the Lang Recital Hall in New York City. In 2002, Mr. Andriasov graduated from Hunter College with a bachelor degree in English Creative Writing and Music Composition, and became a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers. Arshak is the Founder and Owner of the recording label “IMMA Records”, which is based in New York City. In 2003, Arshak Andriasov composed his Second Piano Sonata (in three movements). In the same year, he composed “Torch No. 1” for Trumpet, Trombone, Piano, and String Orchestra. His Seven Preludes for Piano, Op.1, Five Romances for Various Voices and Piano, Op. 2, Piece for Flute and Piano, Op. 3, First Piano Sonata, Op. 4, Second Piano Sonata, Op. 5, and “Torch” No.1, Op. 6 are published works.
Arshak Andriasov is continuing the Moscow Conservatory Composers tradition, passed to him by his father, who stems from P.I. Tchaikovsky - S.I. Taneev - N.Y. Miaskovsky - E.K. Golubev - Iosif Andriasov - Arshak Andriasov.