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ARMENIAN CELLIST BECOMES BRUSSELS PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA CONCERTMASTER
09:52, 13 March, 2014
YEREVAN, MARCH 13, ARMENPRESS: The young Armenian cellist Sevak
Avanesyan has become the first cellist (concertmaster) of the Brussels
Philharmonic Orchestra. His father, Samvel Avanesyan, told Armenpress
about it. The results of the contest for the vacant position and
Sevak's victory became known in late February of 2014.
"It has already been for more than a month the contest for the
vacant position of the first cellist was announced for the Brussels
Philharmonic Orchestra. 128 candidates out of 1000 applicants were
provided with the opportunity to participate in the contest. A real
fight began among them. As Sevak did not allow us to be present at
the contest, in the end of the day, I called him with fear in my
heart and he told us that four of them had passed to the finals",
- tells Samvel Avanesyan. Later the name of the only winner of the
contest has become known. The Armenian young man admired everybody
with his wonderful performance.
Sevak Avanesyan was born in 1989 in Armenia, into a musical family.
After the Great Armenian Earthquake of 1988, they moved to Yerevan,
where he started studying the cello at age 5 with well-known
Armenian cellist, Medea Abrahamyan, student of legendary Mstislav
Rostropovitsch. He went on to study at the Tchaikovsky Specialized
Secondary and Musical School in Yerevan until 2003. That year, his
entire family moved to Brussels, Belgium, where he joined the class
of Ms. Viviane Spanoghe at the Royal Conservatory. He graduated there
with the highest distinction in 2010. The same year he was accepted
in the class of the renowned cellist Claudio Bohorquez in Hans Eissler
Hochschule in Berlin.
Besides his regular studies, Sevak Avanesyan has received precious
advice from world famous artists, such as Janos Starker, Steven
Isserlis, Maria Kliegel, Liuis Claret, Peter Bruns, Garry Hofman,
Wolfgang Boettcher and Igor Oistrakh.
Since the youngest age, Sevak Avanesyan has travelled the world. As a
member of the "Young Virtuosos" of AMAA. Sevak performed as soloist
and chamber musicians in Europe, USA, Canada, China, in halls as
prestigious as the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Ford Hall of Toronto,
the Sidney Opera House, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. More
recent concert seasons brought him to such venues as the Festival de
Radio France Montpellier, the Festival of Menton or the Brahms festival
(Brussels).
An ardent chamber musician, Sevak Avanesyan is a permanent member of
the "Avanesyan piano trio", studying with the Artemis quartet at the
Queen Elisabeth College of Music. The "Avanesyan piano trio" received
the "Golden Lable" price by the Belgian music press association
in 2012.
He has equally collaborated with Augustin Dumay, Philippe Graffin
and Pascal Devoyon, Pavel Gililov, as well as with some of the most
respected musicians of the younger generation: Alexander Khramuchin,
Lily Maisky, Julien Libeer, Alissa Margulis, his brother Hrachya
Avanesyan...
In March 2011 Sevak became the first price winner of "Belgische
Stichting Roeping" promotion.
He is a laureate of many international competitions, such as the
International cello Competition "Gerardmer" (France), the European
Competition for Young Soloists (Luxemburg), the Sint-Pieters-Woluwe
cello competition, and the most recently he won the first price at the
Lions Club international cello competition. Sevak Avanesyan plays on
the very first Matio Gofriller cello from 1689 kindly given to him
by Mischa Maisky
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/753642/armenian-cellist-becomes-brussels-philharmonic-orchestra-concertmaster.html
From: Baghdasarian
09:52, 13 March, 2014
YEREVAN, MARCH 13, ARMENPRESS: The young Armenian cellist Sevak
Avanesyan has become the first cellist (concertmaster) of the Brussels
Philharmonic Orchestra. His father, Samvel Avanesyan, told Armenpress
about it. The results of the contest for the vacant position and
Sevak's victory became known in late February of 2014.
"It has already been for more than a month the contest for the
vacant position of the first cellist was announced for the Brussels
Philharmonic Orchestra. 128 candidates out of 1000 applicants were
provided with the opportunity to participate in the contest. A real
fight began among them. As Sevak did not allow us to be present at
the contest, in the end of the day, I called him with fear in my
heart and he told us that four of them had passed to the finals",
- tells Samvel Avanesyan. Later the name of the only winner of the
contest has become known. The Armenian young man admired everybody
with his wonderful performance.
Sevak Avanesyan was born in 1989 in Armenia, into a musical family.
After the Great Armenian Earthquake of 1988, they moved to Yerevan,
where he started studying the cello at age 5 with well-known
Armenian cellist, Medea Abrahamyan, student of legendary Mstislav
Rostropovitsch. He went on to study at the Tchaikovsky Specialized
Secondary and Musical School in Yerevan until 2003. That year, his
entire family moved to Brussels, Belgium, where he joined the class
of Ms. Viviane Spanoghe at the Royal Conservatory. He graduated there
with the highest distinction in 2010. The same year he was accepted
in the class of the renowned cellist Claudio Bohorquez in Hans Eissler
Hochschule in Berlin.
Besides his regular studies, Sevak Avanesyan has received precious
advice from world famous artists, such as Janos Starker, Steven
Isserlis, Maria Kliegel, Liuis Claret, Peter Bruns, Garry Hofman,
Wolfgang Boettcher and Igor Oistrakh.
Since the youngest age, Sevak Avanesyan has travelled the world. As a
member of the "Young Virtuosos" of AMAA. Sevak performed as soloist
and chamber musicians in Europe, USA, Canada, China, in halls as
prestigious as the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Ford Hall of Toronto,
the Sidney Opera House, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. More
recent concert seasons brought him to such venues as the Festival de
Radio France Montpellier, the Festival of Menton or the Brahms festival
(Brussels).
An ardent chamber musician, Sevak Avanesyan is a permanent member of
the "Avanesyan piano trio", studying with the Artemis quartet at the
Queen Elisabeth College of Music. The "Avanesyan piano trio" received
the "Golden Lable" price by the Belgian music press association
in 2012.
He has equally collaborated with Augustin Dumay, Philippe Graffin
and Pascal Devoyon, Pavel Gililov, as well as with some of the most
respected musicians of the younger generation: Alexander Khramuchin,
Lily Maisky, Julien Libeer, Alissa Margulis, his brother Hrachya
Avanesyan...
In March 2011 Sevak became the first price winner of "Belgische
Stichting Roeping" promotion.
He is a laureate of many international competitions, such as the
International cello Competition "Gerardmer" (France), the European
Competition for Young Soloists (Luxemburg), the Sint-Pieters-Woluwe
cello competition, and the most recently he won the first price at the
Lions Club international cello competition. Sevak Avanesyan plays on
the very first Matio Gofriller cello from 1689 kindly given to him
by Mischa Maisky
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/753642/armenian-cellist-becomes-brussels-philharmonic-orchestra-concertmaster.html
From: Baghdasarian