Kariné Poghosyan
has been described as “extraordinary” and “larger than life” pianist, whose
playing goes “to the heart of the music.” NY Concert Review called her
a pianist who "has that spark.” She
made her orchestral debut at 14 playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.1, and
her solo Carnegie Hall debut at 23.
She is the winner of the New West Symphony Discovery Artists
Competition, the Thousand Islands
International Piano Competition, CSUN
Symphony Concerto Competition, the
Artists International Auditions
and was a top prize winner in the Los
Angeles International Liszt Piano Competition, Five Towns Music and Arts
Competition, and the Arno Babajanian
Piano Competition. Ms. Poghosyan is also the recipient of scholarships from
the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the Glendale Symphony
Orchestra, the Armenian Students Association of America, AGBU, and the Jacob
and Bronislaw Gimpel Foundation.
Kariné Poghosyan
has performed in recitals at Carnegie’s Well Recital Hall, Merkin Concert Hall,
Steinway Hall, the Trinity Church Concerts
at One series, the Beverly Hills Sundays
at Two series, the Valley Committee for the LA Philharmonic, the Bach’s Lunch Recital Series in
California, the Young Artists International Peninsula Festival in California,
and the International Keyboard Institute and Festival in New York. In the fall
of 2007, she organized and performed a three-recital concert series at the
Yamaha Piano Salon titled Twentieth
Century Piano Sonata. Recently, she
helped organize the “Requiem and Resurrection” concert in commemoration of the
95th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide at the Saint Vartan
Armenian Cathedral in New York, where her performance of the Piano Sonata by
Khachaturian received a standing ovation and was described as “jaw-dropping. The Armenian Mirror Spectator wrote, "The
three-movement Khachaturian Sonata—a rarely performed composition—is a real
tour-de-force for the virtuoso pianist. Technically pristine, Ms. Poghosyan
brought out the driven qualities of the outer movements, and the heart-rending
beauty of the middle section.”
Ms.
Poghosyan has appeared as a soloist with numerous orchestras including the New
West Symphony, Park Avenue Chamber Symphony Orchestra, Musica Bella Symphony
Orchestra, the CSUN Symphony, and the Kokolo Ensemble. She has participated in
the master classes of distinguished artists such as Alicia de Larrocha, Claude
Franck, Jon O’Connor, and Jerome Rose. Ms. Poghosyan is also an active chamber
musician, and was the winner of the Lilian
Fuchs Chamber Music Competition.
Ms
Poghosyan’s music studies began in her native Yerevan Armenia in School of the
Arts, No. 1, and later in Romanos Melikian College as well as Komitas State
Conservatory. Her teachers in Armenia included Irina Gazarian, Vatche Umr-Shat,
and Svetlana Dadyan. After moving
to the United States in 1998, she received her BM, summa cum laude, from
California State University in Northridge, under Professor Françoise Regnat,
and her MM and D.M.A. degrees at the Manhattan School of Music, under Dr.
Arkady Aronov, completing her D.M.A. in record-breaking two years with thesis
on Aram Khachaturian for Piano. Ms.
Poghosyan is currently based in New York, where she teaches at her alma mater
Manhattan School of Music.
