Coriún Aharonián

{{short description|Uruguayan composer and musicologist}}

Coriún Aharonián (4 August 1940 – 8 October 2017; born in Montevideo) was an Uruguayan composer and musicologist of Armenian ethnicity.{{cite web|url=http://www.composers21.com/compdocs/aharonic.htm|author=Romeo Talento|website=composers21.com|title=Coriún Aharonián – The Living Composers Project |accessdate=2017-10-06}}

He was a pupil of Luigi Nono, Héctor Tosar, Lauro Ayestarán, Gerardo Gandini, Vinko Globokar, György Ligeti, Gordon Mumma, Folke Rabe, Fernando von Reichenbach, Christian Wolff, and Iannis Xenakis.{{cite journal |last1=Herrera |first1=Eduardo |title=Aharonián, Coriún (1940--) |journal=Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism |date=2016 |doi=10.4324/9781135000356-REM1071-1|isbn=9781135000356 }}

In 2004 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

He was married to musicologist Graciela Paraskevaídis.