Vahan is a London based composer, originally from Lancashire. His music has been described as “truly genre breaking” (Bachtrack) and “subtly and beautifully achieved” (Opera Magazine). A graduate of The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he has worked extensively in music for the stage as well as the concert hall.

His first major work, Boys of Paradise, was revived three times in London and was translated into Portuguese for a run in Lisbon. His opera, Goldilocks and the Three Little Pigs, was hailed as a “swinish pearl of an opera” in The Observer. His reimagining of Gianni Schicchi for OperaUpClose, created with writer Hannah Kumari, earned rave reviews in The Stage and The Times (“gleefully subversive and deliciously entertaining”).

He has been commissioned by companies such as Tête à Tête, OperaUpClose, The Opera Story and BBC4 and had his music performed internationally, on television, radio and in concert halls, theatres, nightclubs and warehouses around the country!

A multi-instrumentalist and passionate music educator, Vahan has worked with English Touring Opera previously as a workshop leader for their ETO Perform and ETO Lyrics projects and is a lead tutor with Hackney Music Service.