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    Fresno Bee (California)
    April 12, 2005, Tuesday FINAL EDITION

    Pianist to play with Philharmonic

    The Fresno Bee


    Pianist Sergei Babayan returns to Fresno this weekend to perform with
    the Fresno Philharmonic for a concert dubbed "Babayan Plays Brahms."

    Babayan, who played in Fresno earlier this season as part of the
    Philip Lorenz Memorial Keyboard Concerts Series, will play Brahms'
    Piano Concerto No. 2.

    Babayan was born in a small town in the former Soviet Armenia, and he
    moved to Yerevan, the Armenian capital, when he was 3 and already
    playing the piano. His father took him to Moscow for piano lessons
    during his teen years, and he eventually entered the Moscow
    Conservatory.

    It wasn't until the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union broke
    up, in 1989, that Babayan came to the United States.

    He came first to Cleveland, where he won first place in the
    prestigious Robert Casadesus Competition, which led to other
    competitions, and an international career.

    Babayan, who runs the Sergei Babayan International Piano Academy at
    the Cleveland Institute of Music, also appeared earlier in Fresno, in
    1991 with Fresno Philharmonic under Andrew Massey, and again in 2003
    with the philharmonic under Kuchar.

    The all-Romantic program this weekend also will feature Dvorak's
    Slavonic Dances and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4.

    The concerts will begin at 8 p.m. Saturday and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday.
    Philharmonic executive director David Gaylin will begin his Inside
    Music talks one hour before each concert.
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