Born in Krasnodar. Although there were no musicians in the family, he started to play the piano at the age of 4 years old. When he was only 7 years old,

With a career spanning almost four decades, GRAMMY® Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell is one of the most celebrated artists of his era. Having performed with virtually every major orchestra in the world,

The native Berliner Tobias Berndt began his musical training with the Dresden Choir of the Church of the Holy Cross. He studied with Hermann Christian Polster in Leipzig and continued his training with Rudolf Piernay in Mannheim.

Tigran Melkonyan was born in Yerevan. He is a soloist with the Yerevan Opera Theatre. Tigran has participated in a number of concerts in Armenia and  abroad, including the Brussels Town Hall,

Sofia Tumanyan is a soloist with the Yerevan Opera Theater. She has had numerous concerts in Armenia and abroad, at concert halls such as Musikverein Golden Hall in Vienna,

Soprano Anna Samuil is among the most sought-after singers of her generation and has been steadily engaged as a soloist at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin since 2004.

Günter Neuhold was born in Graz, Austria, in 1947. In 1969 he completed his studies at the Graz Conservatoire with a masters degree. He then followed advanced courses in Rome with Franco Ferrara and in Vienna with Prof.

“We have to admit, after listening, that Aylen Pritchin is the future of the violin and that he will amaze us with all his art.” –

Maestro Pavel Kogan’s career has spanned over 40 years and five continents and has led him to becoming one of the most respected and widely known Russian conductors of our time.

Born in Yerevan. Zohrab Zohrabyan has studied at Ter Ghevondyan School of Music in classes of trumpet, guitar, piano and composition. Later he graduated from the vocal department of the Yerevan Conservatory.

Born in 1989. Graduated from the Yerevan Conservatory in 2011. He is a soloist with the Yerevan Opera Theater, where he has performed the parts of Count Liebenscoff (Rossini “Viaggio a Reims”),

Christine Sahakyan, mezzo-soprano
Honored Artist of RA

Born in Yerevan. Christine Sahakyan has got her first musical education at Armenian Choral Association after Tatul Altunyan.

Born in Yerevan. Graduated from the Yerevan Conservatory (2005) and the postgraduate course in 2010 with Prof. Nelly Pirumyan. Sofya is a laureate of Republic and international competitions.

Born in Yerevan, Armenia, Sergey Khachatryan won First Prize at the VIII International Jean Sibelius Competition in Helsinki in 2000, becoming the youngest ever winner in the history of the competition.

Simon Trpčeski has been praised not only for his powerful virtuosity and deeply expressive approach, but also for his charismatic stage presence. Launched onto the international scene twenty years ago as a BBC New-Generation Artist,

Vasily Petrenko is Music Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Chief Conductor of the European Union Youth Orchestra. From the 2021/22 season, will take up the positions of Conductor Laureate of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Artistic Director Designate of the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia (“Evgeny Svetlanov”). He served as Chief Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (2006 – August 2021),

In today’s classical music world Lusine Khachatryan is considered a “Poet of the Keyboard”.

Lusine Khachatryan’s successful international concert performances have inspired audiences in such venues as: Alte Oper Frankfurt/Main;

“Since Glenn Gould’s visit to Moscow and Van Cliburn’s victory at the Tchaikovsky Competition in the heat of the Cold War, never has a foreign pianist provoked such frenzy”.

Barry Douglas has established a major international career since winning the Gold Medal at the 1986 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition, Moscow. As Artistic Director of Camerata Ireland,

Born in Moscow and has been living and studying in Venice since 2011. She began taking piano lessons at the age of 4 and for 2 years she studied with Maestro Alexander Maykapar,

Navasard has graduated from the vocal studio of Armenian State Song Theater. Presently he is passing the Master’s Course at the Classical singing Department of the Yerevan Conservatory (class of Profesor S.Kolosaryan).

An artist par excellence, the great Armenian pianist Svetlana Navassardian is universally recognized as a “personality indisputable”, “a most fascinating pianist” who, as music critics have characterized her,

How Can I describe Him? “a Force, a Truth, an Energy, a Passion, a Talent without borders, a Real musician.”
Maria João Pires

Ashot Khachatourian is considered as one of the most inspiring artists of his generation.

Born in Moscow, now she is 14 years old and lives in Venice.
Started to study piano at the age of 4. During first 2 years studied intensively with Maestro Alexander Maykapar,

Massimo Somenzi, a Venetian native, studied piano with Maria Italia Biagi and is a distinguished student of Rio Nardi and Alfredo Casella. He graduated from the Conservatory “Benedetto Marcello” in Venice with the highest honours.

Evgeny Stavinsky was born in Dubna, Moscow region, in a family of musicians. In 2003, he completed his university-level studies as singer and choir conductor at the Academy of Choral Art (Moscow-based prestigious academy of singing founded by Victor Popov).

Varduhi Yeritsyan occupe une position singulière dans le paysage pianistique actuel. Par sa double culture héritée de grands maîtres comme Brigitte Engerer, Mstislav Rostropovitch, Denis Pascal,

Né le 8 octobre 1974, Bruno Mantovani est un musicien polyvalent, avant tout compositeur, mais aussi chef d’orchestre, directeur du Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris de 2010 à 2019 puis professeur de répertoire contemporain dans cette même institution.

Olli Mustonen has a unique place on today’s music scene. Following the tradition of great masters such as Rachmaninov, Busoni and Enescu, Mustonen combines the roles of his musicianship as composer,

Tomer Maschkowski was born in 1982, into an Israeli family living in Rotterdam, Holland. He began playing the trombone at the age of 13 under the tutelage of his grandfather,

John Nelson is recognized on the international scene as one of America’s most eminent conductors. He studied at the Juilliard School in New York, where he received the Irving Berlin Conducting Prize.

George Krimperis Principal Trombonist NSO | Professor at Athens Conservatory
George Krimperis student of Jörgen van RIjen and Pierre Volders holds degrees from “Codarts”,

National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia (NCOA)
Vahan Mardirossian
Artistic Director and Principal Conductor

The National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia was founded in 1962 by prominent violinist Zareh Sahakiants.

Trombonist Juan Pardo has played in orchestras around the world. Since September 2018 JuanPardo has been the principal trombonist of the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra (ANPO,

He was born in Getafe, Madrid, in 1991. He began his trombone studies at the age of 7 in Municipal School of Music from Getafe “Maestro Gombau”,

German pianist Andreas Frölich studied with Stefan Askenase, Vitaly Margulis in Freiburg and Pavel Gililov in Cologne. He was prizewinner of several international piano competitions, as in Senigallia,

Reinhard Seehafer was born in Magdeburg. He studied conducting, composing and piano in Leipzig and Weimar with Kurt Masur and Rolf Reuter and was qualified as a conductor with Leonard Bernstein and Otmar Suitner.

Armenian violinist and producer, Khachatur Almazian, is the Artistic Director, Leader and Soloist of the popular and versatile “Almazian Symphony” – an ensemble constituted of highly talented musicians that he founded,

Conductor Tigran Hakhnazaryan has an extensive and varied repertoire which includes symphonic works, instrumental concertos as well as chamber music and also opera and ballet pieces.
Tigran Hakhnazaryan was born in 1978.

Since winning the Cello First Prize and Gold Medal at the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2011 at the age of 22, Narek Hakhnazaryan has performed with most major orchestras and in recital and chamber music across the globe at many of the world’s most prestigious festivals.

Areg Navasardyan was born on 22.10.1999 in Yerevan, Armenia. He began to study violin when he was 6 years old at the Yerevan Tchaikovsky Specialized School of Music under Professor Gagik Smbatyan.

The international artist Sara Urena stands out for her long career in Europe and the USA. Sara started her studies at La Unió de Quart de Poblet.

Born in Faura (Valencia, Spain) in 1984, conductor Robert Ferrer was entitled degrees in Conducting and Tuba by Conservatorio Superior de Música “Joaquín Rodrigo” in Valencia. He has attended courses and masterclasses in Conducting with Manuel Galduf,

Born in Georgia, Khatia Buniatishvili discovered piano at the early age of three. She gave her first concert with Tbilisi Chamber Orchestra when she was six and was subsequently invited to tour internationally with them.

The 2018/19 season saw Alexander Liebreich begin his tenure as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra.

He held the position of Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR) since 2012 until the end of the 2018-2019 season.

A composer, pianist and flautist since his childhood, Zdeněk Klauda studied at the Jan Neruda Music Grammar School (composition under the tutelage of M. Kubička,

Born in Berlin, the mezzo-soprano Stepanka Pucalkova graduated in 2005 studying singing at the High school of Jan Neruda in Prague and 2007 she continued to the University Mozarteum in Salzburg,

Lyric soprano Slávka Zámečníková, born in 1991 in Slovakia, was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Berlin State Opera (2017/2018 and 2018/2019),

Gautier Capuçon is a true 21st century ambassador for the cello. Performing each season with many of the world’s foremost conductors and instrumentalists, he is also founder and leader of the 

…Hayk Melikyan… has power and agility to spare, with plenty of attention to inner voicings. He is never at a loss for style or direction in any of this music,

“Hover” State Chamber Choir is always open to new ideas and forms in choral art. The choir appeared with numerous performances in various genres: vocal-symphonic,

Anush Nikogosyan is an Armenian violinist who was born in 1989 in Yerevan and appeared first time with the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra aged only 10 on stage of Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in e-moll.

Artsvik Demurchyan was born in Yerevan. She graduated from the Yerevan Conservatory and postgraduate courses with prof. A. Saradjian. She is a laureate of  V.

Freddy Kempf is one of today’s most successful pianists performing to sell-out audiences all over the world. Exceptionally gifted with an unusually broad repertoire, Freddy has built a unique reputation as an explosive and physical performer who is not afraid to take risks as well as a serious,

Paul-Emmanuel Thomas is at the forefront of a new generation of French entrepreneurial conductors with multiple trajectories. Appointed in 2010 as Music Director of the Classica Italiana Orchestra in Torino,

Hungarian violinist Kristóf Baráti is recognized increasingly across the globe as a musician of extraordinary quality with a vast expressive range and impeccable technique. In 2014,

Winner of the 2007 George Enescu Competition in Bucharest Anna Tifu is considered one of the leading violinists of her generation.
Born in Cagliari,

Anahit was born into the fourth generation in a family of professional musicians and started musical training from the age of six. After completing her studies in Armenia she had given numerous recitals there;

David Abrahamyan is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Dakapp. David studied viola under Maestro Oleg Lev, Diemut Poppen and Boris Belkin and played in the Mozart Orchestra under Claudio Abbado.

Boris Brovtsyn has established himself as one of the most profound and versatile musicians of his generation. He is in ever-increasing demand all around the world as both concerto soloist and chamber musician.

Described as an ‘endlessly fascinating artist’, Ashley Wass’s musical career is one of unusual creativity and variety. Alongside his work as soloist and chamber musician,

2022/23 marks Andrey Boreyko’s fourth season as Music and Artistic Director of Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. They celebrated the orchestra’s 120th birthday last season, toured across the US,

Sevak Avanesyan is described as “a musician of extraordinary virtuosity and a remarkable range of sound capacities” (Bernard Greenhouse) and “undoubtedly, one of the most gifted musicians of his generation”(Janos Starker).

Yevgeny Sudbin has been hailed by The Telegraph as “potentially one of the greatest pianists of the 21st century”. As BIS Records’ only exclusive artist,

Born in Weingarten / Baden, Reinhold Friedrich has been a prolific performer on major stages around the world since his success at the ARD International Music Competition in 1986.

Now regarded as one of the finest cellists of the younger generation, Alexander Chaushian has performed extensively throughout the world. As a soloist with orchestra his appearances include the Vienna Chamber Orchestra at Vienna’s Konzerthaus and at the Bruchnerhaus in Linz,

Born in Brescia in 1963, Pier Carlo Orizio graduated in piano under M° Sergio Marengoni and in conducting under M° Donato Renzetti. He also attended master classes held by Emil Tchakarov (Venice 1988) and Leonard Bernstein (Rome 1989).

Macedonian pianist Simon Trpčeski has established himself as one of the most remarkable musicians to have emerged in recent years, praised not only for his powerful virtuosity and deeply expressive approach,