Nareh Arghamanyan
Piano
"Elegance, humour, deliciously burbling trills and fiery imagination -this introduced me to a major, major, major talent. … Pianists don’t come any better. Another potential superstar has arrived!" American Record Guide
In her early twenties the Armenian pianist Nareh Arghamanyan, winner of the 2008 Montreal International Music Competition, belongs to the promising generation of today’s fine pianists.
Highlights in her 2010/11 season include performances with the Vienna Symphony at the Bregenz Festival 2011 playing Ravel G Major under Xian Zhang, with the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montreal under Keri-Lynn Wilson performing Liszt piano concerto No. 2, which she will also perform with the Vancouver Symphony collaborating with James Gaffigan. In recital she appears at the Mozartiade Augsburg, in Bad Kissingen and in Vienna. Furthermore, she tours the US in January 2011 including her debut at the Portland International Piano Series, followed by her debut at the Singapore International Piano Festival.
The last season saw Nareh Arghamanyan making an impressive New York debut at the Frick collection as well as at San Francisco Performances, resulting in a reinvitation to their “Young Master Series” in 2011. In concert she performed Saint-Saëns 5th concerto with the Winnipeg Symphony, the Saint-Saëns 2nd with I Musici de Montreal, and the “Emperor” concerto with the McGill Chamber Orchestra. Nareh Arghamanyan has appeared with the Mont Blanc Symphony France, Moscow Chamber Orchestra and the Armenian Philharmonic.
At the invitation of Mitsuko Uchida, Nareh Arghamanyan attended the prestigious Marlboro Festival 2009, where she will return in 2011. Nareh Arghamanyan has appeared at many festivals internationally including the Tanglewood Festival, Domaine Forget Quebec, the Festival de Lanaudière and at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Colmar Festival at the invitation of violinist Vladimir Spivakov, and a recital at Palais d’Athenée Geneva.
Most recently, the Analekta label released her recording of the Rachmaninov 2nd Sonata and Liszt B minor Sonata to great acclaim. La Scena Musicale wrote: “Arghamanyan meets the daunting demands of these two ultra-Romantic pieces with a combination of technical bravura, singing tone, and poetic expression…the Liszt is particularly memorable.”
Nareh Arghamanyan has won an impressive number of awards: she has been the 1st Prize recipient at the 2007 Piano Campus International Competition in Pontoise and took 2nd Prize at the 2007 Jose Roca International Competition in Valencia. In 2005 she won the Josef Dichler Piano Competition in Vienna, and the following year was awarded a scholarship from the Herbert von Karajan Foundation.
Born in 1989 in Armenia, Nareh Arghamanyan began her piano studies at the age of five. Three years later, she entered the Tchaikovsky Music School for Talented Children in Yerevan, where she studied with Alexander Gurgenov. In 2004 she was the youngest student to be admitted to the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where she studied with Heinz Medjimorec. In October 2010 she will continue her studies with Arie Vardi in Hannover.
SEASON 2010/2011
