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PIANIST KARINE POGHOSYAN TO PERFORM AT ST. VARTAN CATHEDRAL IN NY
September 25, 2013 - 12:08 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The vibrant young Armenian pianist Karine Poghosyan
will perform at St. Vartan Cathedral, 630 2nd Ave., New York City on
Sept 25 evening, as part of the 2013-14 Concerts @ St.Vartan series,
Broadway World reports.
Ms. Poghosyan will also be leading the St. Vartan orchestra in their
inaugural appearance. The program will include works by Schubert,
Bach, and Liszt.
The exceptional Armenian pianist Karine Poghosyan has been praised
for her ability to get to the heart of the works she performs. She
made her orchestral debut at 14 playing Beethoven's Piano Concerto
No.1, and her solo Carnegie Hall debut at 23, and has since gone on
to win numerous awards as well as perform in some of the world's most
prestigious concert halls.
An avid musician who has been described as "extraordinary" and
"larger than life," Karine Poghosyan has performed in recitals at
Carnegie's Well Recital Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Steinway Hall, the
Trinity Church Concerts at One series, the Beverly Hills Sundays at
Two series, the Valley Committee for the LA Philharmonic, the Bach's
Lunch Recital Series in California, the Young Artists International
Peninsula Festival in California, and the International Keyboard
Institute and Festival in New York. In the fall of 2007, she organized
and performed a three-recital concert series at the Yamaha Piano Salon
titled Twentieth Century Piano Sonata. Recently, she helped organize
the "Requiem and Resurrection" concert in commemoration of the 95th
Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide at the Saint Vartan Armenian
Cathedral in New York, where her performance of the Piano Sonata by
Khachaturian received a standing ovation, Broadway World says.
The Armenian Mirror Spectator wrote, "The three-movement Khachaturian
Sonata-a rarely performed composition-is a real tour-de-force for the
virtuoso pianist. Technically pristine, Ms. Poghosyan brought out
the driven qualities of the outer movements, and the heart-rending
beauty of the middle section."
Ms. Poghosyan has appeared as a soloist with numerous orchestras
including the New West Symphony, Park Avenue Chamber Symphony
Orchestra, Musica Bella Symphony Orchestra, the CSUN Symphony, and
the Kokolo Ensemble, and the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra,
whose music director Dr. Choe described Ms. Poghosyan as "an audience
magnet" and "a born performer." She has participated in the master
classes of distinguished artists such as Alicia de Larrocha, Claude
Franck, Jon O'Connor, and Jerome Rose.
Ms. Poghosyan is the winner of the New West Symphony Discovery Artists
Competition, the Thousand Islands International Piano Competition, CSUN
Symphony Concerto Competition, the Artists International Auditions
and was a top prize winner in the Los Angeles International Liszt
Piano Competition, Five Towns Music and Arts Competition, and the Arno
Babajanian Piano Competition. Ms. Poghosyan is also the recipient of
scholarships from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences,
the Glendale Symphony Orchestra, the Armenian Students Association
of America, AGBU, and the Jacob and Bronislaw Gimpel Foundation,
and Manhattan School of Music.
Ms. Poghosyan's music studies began in her native Yerevan Armenia in
School of the Arts, No. 1, and later in Romanos Melikian College as
well as Komitas State Conservatory. Her teachers in Armenia included
Irina Gazarian, Vatche Umr-Shat, and Svetlana Dadyan. After moving
to the United States in 1998, she received her BM, summa cum laude,
from California State University in Northridge, under Professor
Francoise Regnat, and her MM and D.M.A. degrees at the Manhattan
School of Music, under Dr. Arkady Aronov, completing her D.M.A. in
record-breaking two years with thesis on Aram Khachaturian for Piano.
Ms. Poghosyan is currently based in New York, where she teaches at
her alma mater Manhattan School of Music.
Upcoming performances in 2013-14 include solo recitals at the
University of Northridge and at the "Sundays at Two" series in
Rolling Hills, CA, a solo and orchestral performance at the Saint
Vartan Cathedral in New York in May as well as September, and solo
recitals in Montgomery, NY, and Richmond, Virginia.
Ms. Poghosyan's solo CD of Aram Khachaturian's piano works and ballet
transcriptions will be released in the summer of 2014, on NAXOS label.
September 25, 2013 - 12:08 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The vibrant young Armenian pianist Karine Poghosyan
will perform at St. Vartan Cathedral, 630 2nd Ave., New York City on
Sept 25 evening, as part of the 2013-14 Concerts @ St.Vartan series,
Broadway World reports.
Ms. Poghosyan will also be leading the St. Vartan orchestra in their
inaugural appearance. The program will include works by Schubert,
Bach, and Liszt.
The exceptional Armenian pianist Karine Poghosyan has been praised
for her ability to get to the heart of the works she performs. She
made her orchestral debut at 14 playing Beethoven's Piano Concerto
No.1, and her solo Carnegie Hall debut at 23, and has since gone on
to win numerous awards as well as perform in some of the world's most
prestigious concert halls.
An avid musician who has been described as "extraordinary" and
"larger than life," Karine Poghosyan has performed in recitals at
Carnegie's Well Recital Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Steinway Hall, the
Trinity Church Concerts at One series, the Beverly Hills Sundays at
Two series, the Valley Committee for the LA Philharmonic, the Bach's
Lunch Recital Series in California, the Young Artists International
Peninsula Festival in California, and the International Keyboard
Institute and Festival in New York. In the fall of 2007, she organized
and performed a three-recital concert series at the Yamaha Piano Salon
titled Twentieth Century Piano Sonata. Recently, she helped organize
the "Requiem and Resurrection" concert in commemoration of the 95th
Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide at the Saint Vartan Armenian
Cathedral in New York, where her performance of the Piano Sonata by
Khachaturian received a standing ovation, Broadway World says.
The Armenian Mirror Spectator wrote, "The three-movement Khachaturian
Sonata-a rarely performed composition-is a real tour-de-force for the
virtuoso pianist. Technically pristine, Ms. Poghosyan brought out
the driven qualities of the outer movements, and the heart-rending
beauty of the middle section."
Ms. Poghosyan has appeared as a soloist with numerous orchestras
including the New West Symphony, Park Avenue Chamber Symphony
Orchestra, Musica Bella Symphony Orchestra, the CSUN Symphony, and
the Kokolo Ensemble, and the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra,
whose music director Dr. Choe described Ms. Poghosyan as "an audience
magnet" and "a born performer." She has participated in the master
classes of distinguished artists such as Alicia de Larrocha, Claude
Franck, Jon O'Connor, and Jerome Rose.
Ms. Poghosyan is the winner of the New West Symphony Discovery Artists
Competition, the Thousand Islands International Piano Competition, CSUN
Symphony Concerto Competition, the Artists International Auditions
and was a top prize winner in the Los Angeles International Liszt
Piano Competition, Five Towns Music and Arts Competition, and the Arno
Babajanian Piano Competition. Ms. Poghosyan is also the recipient of
scholarships from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences,
the Glendale Symphony Orchestra, the Armenian Students Association
of America, AGBU, and the Jacob and Bronislaw Gimpel Foundation,
and Manhattan School of Music.
Ms. Poghosyan's music studies began in her native Yerevan Armenia in
School of the Arts, No. 1, and later in Romanos Melikian College as
well as Komitas State Conservatory. Her teachers in Armenia included
Irina Gazarian, Vatche Umr-Shat, and Svetlana Dadyan. After moving
to the United States in 1998, she received her BM, summa cum laude,
from California State University in Northridge, under Professor
Francoise Regnat, and her MM and D.M.A. degrees at the Manhattan
School of Music, under Dr. Arkady Aronov, completing her D.M.A. in
record-breaking two years with thesis on Aram Khachaturian for Piano.
Ms. Poghosyan is currently based in New York, where she teaches at
her alma mater Manhattan School of Music.
Upcoming performances in 2013-14 include solo recitals at the
University of Northridge and at the "Sundays at Two" series in
Rolling Hills, CA, a solo and orchestral performance at the Saint
Vartan Cathedral in New York in May as well as September, and solo
recitals in Montgomery, NY, and Richmond, Virginia.
Ms. Poghosyan's solo CD of Aram Khachaturian's piano works and ballet
transcriptions will be released in the summer of 2014, on NAXOS label.