17-444: The Starmus International Festival is an international gathering focused on celebrating astronomy, space exploration, music, art, and the natural sciences. It was founded by astronomer / amateur musician Garik Israelian and musician / astrophysicist Brian May . The festival has featured multiple well-known astronauts and astronomers. The first festival took place from 20 to 25 June 2011 on Tenerife and La Palma , Canary Islands with
34-631: A brief stint with an observatory in Northern Ireland and fellowships in Netherlands, Belgium and Australia, his final fellowship settled him in the Canary Islands in 1997 where he stayed and obtained Spanish citizenship. Israelian has worked at the Institute of Astrophysics, Canary Islands (IAC) since 1997. In 1999, Israelian and colleagues found the first observational evidence, based on data from
51-607: A festival that would bring together the stars and music. The concept of the Starsounds project was explained in Israelian's lecture "Our Acoustic Universe" at the first Starmus Festival and published in 2014 in the book Starmus: 50 Years of Man in Space . In a 2016 Larry King Now interview along with Stephen Hawking , Israelian explained the Starmus project and how he viewed music and arts as
68-585: A natural way to inspire youth in science and astronomy — "I always thought that science inspired art, and art inspired science". In 2010, Michel Mayor , Nobel laureate in Physics, Israelian, and Nuno Santos were awarded the Viktor Ambartsumian International Prize "[f]or their important contribution in the study of relation between planetary systems and their host stars." In 2014, Israelian received The Canary Islands Gold Medal, awarded by
85-732: The Starmus Festival . In 1999, Israelian and colleagues presented the first observational evidence that supernova explosions were responsible for the formation of stellar-mass black holes. Garik Israelian was born in 1963 in Yerevan in then- Soviet Armenia . Preferring music over studying, he quit school at the age of 16, playing rock guitar in bars. Israelian credits sci-fi film Solaris for piquing his interest in science fiction and inspiring him to go to university. He studied astrophysics under Viktor Ambartsumian at Yerevan State University , graduating in 1987 and completing his Ph.D. in 1992. After
102-462: The W. M. Keck Observatory , that supernova explosions are responsible for the formation of black holes. In 2001, he proposed the "Lithium-6 test" to determine if a star has engulfed a planet or other gaseous or solid matter. He and collaborators proposed that a solar-type star HD82943 with two giant planets has swallowed a massive planet or a large amount of small rocky matter. In 2009, he and colleagues discovered that stars with planets, such as
119-505: The Magma Arte & Congresos arena in Tenerife. The 2011 concert was recorded and produced into a CD entitled Starmus - Sonic Universe . The rock band Nosound recorded their 2014 concert performance and produced a CD/DVD set entitled Teide 2390 . Garik Israelian Garik Israelian ( Armenian : Գարիկ Իսրայելյան , born 1963) is an Armenian-Spanish astrophysicist and co-founder of
136-673: The NASA Communications Unit. The seventh festival took place 12 to 17 May 2024 in Bratislava , Slovakia with the theme "The Future Of Our Home Planet". A concert on the first day featured performances by Jean-Michel Jarre and Brian May, light and laser displays, and a drone ballet for an audience of 100,000 by the SNP bridge . They were accompanied by the musicians Claude Samard, Adiescar Chase , Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra and Slovak Philharmonic Choir . Some famous expert speakers of
153-424: The festival program were anthropologist Jane Goodall, Nobel Prize winners Michel Mayor , Emmanuelle Charpentier and Kip Thorne , and former astronauts Charlie Duke , Chris Hadfield , Kathryn Thornton and Garrett Reisman . The Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication was awarded to Laurie Anderson , Christopher Nolan , David Attenborough and Sylvia Earle . Two Sonic Universe Concerts were held at
170-472: The festival reached 2.4 billion people worldwide. The third festival took place in the Canary Islands, on Tenerife and La Palma from 27 June to 2 July 2016 with the theme of "Beyond The Horizon: A Tribute To Stephen Hawking". The festival featured numerous scientists and science communicators including Stephen Hawking , Brian Cox , Richard Dawkins , Brian May , and 11 Nobel laureates . Starmus III held
187-601: The festival was the documentary film Space Inside about the Soviet and Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov . The 80-minute film is based on Leonov's last interview and includes footage from the Soviet history of space exploration. A composition dedicated to the topic of Mars exploration was performed at the closing of the festival; the neo-symphony "March of Mars" by Tigran Jager. Winners of the Stephen Hawking Medal were announced as Brian May, Jane Goodall , Diane Ackerman and
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#1732883446625204-542: The government of the Canary Islands. On 20 June 2016, the International Astronomical Union and the Minor Planet Center officially renamed asteroid (21057) 1991 GJ8 to Garikisraelian in honor of Israelian. Slovak Philharmonic The Slovak Philharmonic or Slovak State Philharmonic ( Slovenská filharmónia ) is a Slovak symphony orchestra based in Bratislava . Founded in 1949,
221-1003: The inaugural awards ceremony for recipients of the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication . The award recipients (chosen by Hawking himself) were composer Hans Zimmer, physicist Jim Al-Khalili and the science documentary Particle Fever . The fourth festival took place in Trondheim , Norway, from 18 to 23 June 2017 with the theme of "Life and the Universe". The festival featured eleven Nobel Prize laureates and many astronomers, biologists, chemists, economists, astronauts and artists. The Stephen Hawking Medal award winners were Neil deGrasse Tyson (science writing), Jean-Michel Jarre (music and arts) and The Big Bang Theory (films). The fifth festival took place in Zurich, Switzerland in June 2019 under
238-464: The sun, tend to have much less lithium. In 2005, Israelian compiled a library of acoustic sound waves produced within the bodies of stars. In 2013, Brian May and the band Tangerine Dream used the starsounds in their composition Supernovae , and in 2016 Brian Eno arranged some of Israelian's star recordings into a composition titled Starsounds . In 2011, together with astrophysicist and musician Brian May , Israelian and May created Starmus ,
255-464: The theme 50 Years on Mars , dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the first landing on Mars . There were opening ceremonies and a concert on the first day. Around 50 scientists, Nobel laureates, engineers, cosmonauts, musicians and artists took part in festival events. Starmus VI hosted a Science Camp "to enable children and people interested in science to more closely get acquainted with the latest scientific and technological achievements." Premiering at
272-498: The theme "50 Years of Man in Space." In 2014, the book Starmus: 50 Years of Man in Space was published covering the content of the festival. The second festival occurred 22 to 27 September 2014, on Tenerife and La Palma, Canary Islands with the theme "Beginnings: The Making of the Modern Cosmos." The Government of Tenerife announced that the equivalent publicity value from Starmus Festival II (2014) exceeds 170 million euros and that
289-506: The theme "A Giant Leap", dedicated to the first step of the man on the Moon. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the Moon. The Stephen Hawking Medal was awarded to Elon Musk , Buzz Aldrin, Brian Eno and the documentary Apollo 11 , screened during the festival for the first time in Europe. The sixth Starmus festival took place 5–11 September 2022 in Yerevan , Armenia with
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