Kariné Poghosyan, Piano

Biography

Armenian pianist Kariné Poghosyan has been praised for her ability to get to the heart of the works she performs. She made her orchestral debut at 14 playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.1, and her Carnegie Hall recital debut at 23, and has since gone on to win numerous awards as well as perform in some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls.

Ms. Poghosyan has performed in recitals at Carnegie Hall’s Weill 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 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 series at the Yamaha Piano Salon titled Twentieth Century Piano Sonata. 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.”

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, the Kokolo Ensemble, and the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, whose music director Dr. Choe described Ms. Poghosyan as “an audience magnet” and “a born performer”.

Ms. Poghosyan is the winner of the New West Symphony Discovery Artists Competition, the Thousand Islands International Piano Competition, CSUN Symphony Concerto Competition, Artists International Auditions and was a top prize winner in the Los Angeles International Liszt Piano Competition, and the Arno Babajanian Piano Competition.

Her music studies began in her native Yerevan, Armenia, in the Romanos Melikian College and the Komitas State Conservatory. After moving to the US in 1998, she received her BM, summa cum laude, from CalState 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 two years with a thesis on Aram Khachaturian for Piano. She is currently based in New York, where she teaches at her alma mater, the Manhattan School of Music.

In the upcoming 2014-15 season, Ms. Poghosyan will make her debut in performances in Vienna and Washington, DC. She will also debut in Toronto, where she’ll give the Canadian premiere of Alan Hovhannes’s Piano Concerto  “Lousadzak” with the Toronto Sinfonia and Maestro Nurhan Arman.  Her solo CD of Aram Khachaturian’s piano works and ballet transcriptions was released on the NAXOS label.