CONCERT AND RECITAL SERIES
A Piano recital with Hayk Melikyan
Friday 15 April 2011
The Shoe Factory, 304 Ermou Street, Nicosia / 8.30pm
The Pharos Arts Foundation is proud to present, Hayk Melikyan, one of the
most sought-after pianists of the younger generation. Melikyan will present
an exciting programme of works by Takemitsu, Berio, Karksy/Melikyan, Xenakis,
Stravinsky, Part, Babadjanyan and Dellalian. The recital will take place on
Friday 15 April 2011, at The Shoe Factory / 8.30pm.
Hayk Melikyan (piano)
''"You say a festive feeling of existence or а sheer joy of living'' I think
that the above mentioned feelings and similar luxuries are deeply possessed
by Hayk Melikyan at the moments whenever he plays piano. These are the
moments when he equally performs both as a pianist and a composer. The
remaining time he dedicates to the maturing of these moments. Nothing could
be more wonderful than a talent of creation of mirth for one's own soul,
possession of it and sharing with those people who are able to seize it."
Tigran Mansouryan
"Hayk Melikyan, is a pianist with a strongly individual personality and a
carrier of the great traditions of Russian piano school, specifically that
of Felix Blumenfeld and Konstantin Igumnov. Its synthesis gives most
interesting and fruitful results. From his very first performances, Hayk
Melikyan has attracted the attention of the musical world by his great
technical potential and the original intellectual meaning he gives to the
musical images,' Irina Tigranova, musicologist.
Hayk Melikyan was born in Yerevan in 1980. He first studied the piano with
Irina Grishinskaya, and later at the the Yerevan State Conservatory with
professor Alexander Gurgenov, with whom he also completed a post-graduate
course in 2005. His concert début took place at the Concerto Di Concerti
International Festival of the 20th Century Music in Rome. Melikyan leads an
active concert life, playing in Armenia, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy,
Switzerland, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands. His performances have various
formats: he plays as a soloist, with chamber ensembles and Armenian State
Philharmonic Orchestra. His repertoire contains an impressive variety of
styles, epochs and schools; he performs the works of European, Russian and
Armenian composers alike, classical as well as romantic.
After having won the second prize in the International Piano Competition of
20th century and contemporary music Premio Valentino Bucchi in Rome in 2000,
he has included contemporary music as a leading part of his concert
programmes. In 2008, Hayk Melikyan was granted the Samson Francois special
prize at the Orléans international piano competition in France.. He is the
first performer of many Armenian and foreign composers in Armenia and
abroad. This activity led him to an idea of initiating a concert series on
The 20th Century and Contemporary World Piano Music.
It is worth mentioning about the valuable achievements of Hayk Melikyan in
Composition: he is the composer of many chamber-instrumental, vocal works as
well as symphonic and chorus music. His piano transcriptions, concert
paraphrases and arrangements are among the favorite ones in the repertoires
of many pianists: Khovanshina by M.Mussorgsky, Aleko by S.Rachmaninov, The
Rite of Spring by I.Stravinsky, Fire Ring by A.Terteryan, Anoush by
A.Tigranyan and many Armenian folk and medieval spiritual songs.
Hayk Melikyan's lively activity is accurately described by the Armenian
musicologist Margarita Rukhkyan: 'He is the embodiment of permanent
self-perfection. One can easily feel that he is an independent artist, his
own master. It is hard for any composer to trust a work to a performer. Hayk
Melikyan is the one whom the Composers grant their works with confidence
that the performance by Mr. Melikyan will be the best one. We can surely
call Mr. Melikyan a successor of music traditions founded by Franz Liszt
which combines the whole entourage of piano mastery: performance, composing
creativity and improvisation.'
Ticket Prices:
Adults: EUR22
Friends and Supporters of the Pharos Arts Foundation / Concessions: EUR17
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