| Pianist Armen Guzelimian enjoys international acclaim for his work as soloist, chamber musician and collaborative partner and master vocal coach. He received his primary musical training at Los Angeles City College, UCLA and the Vienna Academy of Music in Austria, and studied with Aube Tzerko and Jakob Gimpel. He has appeared in the major concert halls of the world, from New York’s Lincoln Center to Salle Pleyel in Paris, South Bank in London to Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena, Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels to Toronto North York Performing Arts Center. Guzelimian made his Los Angeles Philharmonic debut playing the Khachaturian Piano concerto in the presence of the composer. He has appeared with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (Marriner), American Youth Symphony. He has partnered some of the most distinguished vocalists and instrumentalists of our time – Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Thomas Hampson, Peter Schreier, Florence Quivar, the Rossetti String Quartet, the Angeles Quartet, Viktoria Mullova, Thomas Zehetmair, Iona Brown. This season he will be appearing in a newly formed Nareg Piano Trio with violinist Ani Kavafian and cellist Any Kalayjian, presenting Armenian composers’ chamber music along with the standard repertory. The pianist has appeared at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, Aspen Festival , Santa Barbara Music Festival. He has been on the faculties of the Music Academy of the West, the University of Southern California, and guest lecturer at the Eastman School of Music, Loyola University in New Orleans and the University of Maryland at College Park. Guzelimian’s performances have been heard on NPR broadcasts nationally, and his recordings appear on the Teldec, EMI/Angel, Nonesuch, Delos, 0rion, & Crystal labels. Nightscapes - a new recording of solo piano music is now available, and his first recording of Armenian solo piano music will be out in mid-2007. |
