Background
Petros Shoujounian was born in Gyumri (then Leninakan, Armenia in 1957.
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He eventually studied music at the Yerevan State Komitas State Conservatory and continued his education at the Garu Mourza College of Music.
Career
At the age of eleven, Shoujounian began to compose his own music Shoujounian moved to Canada in 1976 and pursued studies at the Quebec Conservatory of Music under the famed Canadian composer Gilles Tremblay. He gained his Master of Arts in Composition in 1982.
Eventually he would direct the Armenian Choirs of Knar and Alemshah based in Montreal.
He is also a publisher of records of the works of Armenian composers. Shoujounian has worked with numerous orchestras, such as I Musici de Montreal, NEM, Kitchener, London (Ontario) and Laval.
He has also worked with soloists such as like Marie-Josée Simard, Pierre Jasmin, Jean Laurendeau, and others He currently resides in Quebec, Canada.
In 2001, for the 1700th anniversary of the Christianization of Armenia, Shoujounian performed three pieces of ancient Armenian liturgical music
The concert featured famed Canadian Armenian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian.
