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 Armen Babakhanian
Piano
A prize-winner at several of the world’s most prestigious international piano competitions including the Leeds, the Van Cliburn, the Guardian Dublin, the William Kappell, the Gina Bachauer, and most recently the World Piano Competition, Armen Babakhanian has captured the imagination of the audiences and the critics alike through the intensity and honesty of his performances.
Mr. Babakhanian has given recitals in the USA, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Spain. He has appeared as soloist with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Irish National Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, with St. Petersburg Philharmonic under Yuri Temirkanov, and with Moscow Philharmonic under Valery Gergiev.
Festival appearances include the Aspen, Interlochen, Santander and Baalbec music festivals. Babakhanian’s performance of the Shostakovich Piano Quintet with the Takács Quartet during Santander Festival in Spain was named the best chamber music performance of the festival. Mr. Babakhanian has recorded for the ASV and Real Sound labels and his performances have been broadcast on BBC, PBS (USA), ORF(Austria) and RAI (Italy) television networks. His recent recording of the Tchaikovsky piano sonatas has received rave reviews in the European press.
In addition to his performing career, Mr. Babakhanian has served as jury member for several international piano competitions, including the Gina Bachauer, Prokofiev and the Rachmaninoff piano competitions. In 1999, he founded and served as Artistic Director for the Armenian Legacy International Piano Competition in Yerevan, Armenia. He has taught numerous master-classes in Russia, United Kingdom, Spain and the United States. Mr. Babakhanian is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Komitas State Conservatory in Yerevan, where he also received his musical education.
During the 2001/2002 season, Armen Babkhanian has appeared in 17 cities’ concert tour in Japan, as well as in the United States, Canada, Australia and Finland, also he had concert tour in France which included recital in Lyon’s famed Salle De Molliere.
Armen Babahanyan has been appointed as an Artistic Director of Yerevan International Piano Competition to be held in April-May 2004.
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