Education
BM, Piano Performance, USC
MA, Instrumental Performance, California State University, Fresno
DMA, Music (instrumental performance), Claremont Graduate University

Contact
Email: oarakelyan@glendale.edu

Dr. Ovanes Arakelyan began his music studies in Armenia, and later in Russia. In 2004 he received a Bachelor of Music degree from USC in the class of Daniel Pollack. In 2011 he received his Master of Arts degree from CSU Fresno, and in 2015 he obtained a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree from Claremont Graduate University under the tutelage of Dr. Stewart Gordon, where he conducted original research on the piano music of Armenian composers. 

Dr. Arakelyan has had numerous performances throughout the United States and abroad, reaching concert stages, such as the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. He has been a winner of numerous competitions, and most recently he was a winner of the Beverly Hills Concert Series. His is now a faculty member of Glendale Community College, where he teaches keyboard harmony, class piano and applied piano.