Nareh Arghamanyan
8:30 p.m. Friday, January 15, 2010
Nareh Arghamanyan, Pianist. Ms. Arghamanyan is the winner of the 2008 Montreal International Music Competition, where she also received the Audience Choice Award and a special award for the best interpretation of a work by Canadian composer Alexina Louie. Ms. Arghamanyan has been the First Prize recipient at the 2007 Piano Campus International Competition in Pontoise, France, and took second prize at the 2007 Jose Roca International Competition in Valencia, Spain. In 2005, after one year of study in Vienna, she won the Josef Dichler Piano Competition and the following year she was awarded a scholarship from the Herbert von Karajan Foundation.
Ms. Arghamanyan has already appeared at many festivals internationally including the Colmar Festival in France at the invitation of violinist Vladimir Spivakov, and a recital at Palais dAthene in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2006 she appeared on the Chamber Music San Francisco Music Series under the auspices of the Guzik Foundation, and in 2004 was soloist with the Mont Blanc Symphony (France) in the Grieg Piano Concerto.
Check out a video of Nareh in performance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIqWmHRpoOQ