BIOGRAPHY
Yerevan-born Alexandr Iradyan (1990) works as a conductor, composer, and pianist, performing across more than 15 countries including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Georgia, and the United States.
His career took off at 15 when he performed his piano concerto with the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra. He has won several competitions, including first place at the Aram Khachaturian International Competition and the Grand Prix at the Ekaterinburg International Piano Competition. His music has been performed at Carnegie Hall in New York and BOZAR in Brussels.
In 2014, his ballet "Memos of a suicide" was staged at the National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Armenia. This work revolutionized contemporary stagings in Armenia, becoming the first contemporary performance that transformed theatrical approaches in the country. After finishing his studies at the Yerevan State Conservatory after Komitas, he moved to Brussels Royal Conservatory in 2014 to study conducting. Two years later, he continued his education at Berlin's International Conducting Academy at UdK, completing his master's degree in 2019. He has lived and worked in Berlin since then.
In 2021, he received a Special Prize at the Aram Khachaturian International Conducting Competition, which led to guest conducting opportunities with the Warmian Masurian Philharmonic Orchestra. His big success in February 2022 resulted in further invitations for the 2022-2023 season.
Over the past decade, Iradyan has worked with well-known musicians like Mischa Maisky, Maxim Vengerov, and George Pehlivanian. He has conducted orchestras including the Magdeburg Philharmonic, Brandenburger Symphoniker Orchestra, Bochummer Philharmoniker, Opera Cottbus and others. He has also attended masterclasses with Robin Ticciati, Sir Roger Norrington, and Grzegorz Nowak. In 2021, he became chief conductor and artistic director of the Sonoris Orchestra Berlin.
Since 2019, he has been a guest conductor with Armenia's National Chamber Orchestra and teaches conducting at Berlin University of the Arts.
In 2023, he was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Warmian Mazurian Philharmonic Orchestra, and in 2024 became their Chief Conductor and Artistic Director. Under his direction, the orchestra has gained recognition across Poland for its varied programs, new works, creative projects, and different approaches to performance.
In 2025, Iradyan started the first Youth Film and Music Festival in Olsztyn, which is the only one of its type in the region.