Class of: 2008

Vartan Aghababian

Vartan Aghababian (CFA’08) of Boston, Mass., a composer, premiered his one-act comic opera, The Knave of Hearts, in April 2013. The opera was commissioned by the Tufts University opera department. Other recent premier performances include his four-movement String Quartet No. I (based on Armenian folk themes and liturgical chant), Three Dickinson Songs (for soprano and piano), and the anthem This Joyful Eastertide (for chorus, brass quartet, and organ), which was commissioned by the Acton Congregational Church. Vartan is a BU College of Fine Arts lecturer in composition and theory and a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Email him at dma4vxa2008@gmail.com.

From the Winter-Spring 2014 issue.