Juno award winning Armenian- Canadian pianist Serouj Kradjian has been described as "a keyboard acrobat" of "crystal virtuosity", having "fiery temperament and elegant sound" with "a technique to burn." Mr. Kradjian's concert performances have included Rachmaninoff's Second and Third Piano Concerti with the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Shostakovitch First Concerto in Madrid, both Liszt Piano Concertos with Germany's Göttingen Symphony, the Khachaturian Piano Concerto in Toronto, Mozart performances with the Vancouver and Edmonton Symphonies, and his recital debut at Carnegie Hall, New York. His concerts have been broadcast by the CBC, Radio de la Suisse Romande, Radio and TV España, the BBC, the Süddeutsche Rundfunk and NHK Japan. Serouj Kradjian's solo discography includes the highly acclaimed traversals of Franz Liszt's Transcendental Etudes, released by Warner Music Spain and Liszt's Piano Concertos.His second solo disc entitled "Hommage à Paganini" with works by Brahms, Schumann, Chopin,Liszt and Rachmaninoff will be released in 2007. "Miniatures," an anthology of music written by Armenian composers, and Robert Schumann's three Sonatas for Violin and Piano (with Ara Malikian) are both Hänssler Classic releases. In 2002, he began working with soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian, accompanying her in recitals in Canada and the United States. Their disc of songs by Pauline Viardot-Garcia was released in 2005 on the Analekta label, bringing the two artists, who are a married couple, international accolades and a 2006 Juno Award for Classical Album of the Year. Serouj Kradjian began his studies at the age of five, and by seven had won a National Competition for Young Musicians. At fourteen he earned a scholarship to study in Vienna, and later studied with Marietta Orlov at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music, where he earned a B.A. in Piano Performance in 1994. He studied with Einar Steen-Nökleberg at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hanover, receiving the coveted Solo Performance degree in 2001.