CELLIST SUREN BAGRATUNI TO PERFORM IN THE NETHERLANDS

PanARMENIAN.Net
11.05.2009 21:36 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian cellist Suren Bagratuni will perform in
the Netherlands. On May 31 the cellist will give a concert in the
Dutch city of Nederburg with Japanese pianist Ayano Shimada, a winner
of several major international music prizes. Suren Bagratuni.will be
the first to take the stage of the intimate Nederburg Recital Room at
17:00. Winner of the Silver Medal at the 1986 International Tchaikovsky
Competition while still a student at the Moscow Conservatory, Suren
Bagratuni, has gone to a distinguished international career as a
soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. In addition to performing
throughout the former Soviet Union, he has toured worldwide earning
enthusiastic praise in both traditional and contemporary repertoire.

Born in Yerevan, Armenia, Mr. Bagratuni began his musical education
there at the age of seven. By age fourteen appeared as a concerto
soloist performing Saint-Saens’ Concerto with Armenian State
Radio Orchestra. Since that time he has performed with all the
major orchestras in the former Soviet Union, including the Moscow
Philharmonic (under the direction of Valery Gergiev), and has also
appeared with the Boston Pops, L’Orchestre Jeune Philharmonie in Paris,
the Weimar Staatskapelle, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Orquestra
Sinfonica de Sao Paulo, Symphony Orchestras of Chile, Guatemala,
Dominican Republic to name a few.

His solo appearances have included recitals in Moscow, St.Petersburg,
Rome, Paris, Geneva, Leipzig, Dresden, Berlin, Munchen, Seoul,
Cairo, Melbourne, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Taipei, Carnegie
Hall’s Weill recital hall, Worcester’s Mechanics Hall, Jordan hall
in Boston. A performance there of the Shostakovich d minor Sonata
prompted the Boston Globe to call it "one of the best performances
of the year". At Weill recital Hall in New York, he performed a suite
for cello and piano by Ned Rorem (with the composer as pianist).

Chamber music appearances have included guest invitations with the
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Newport Music Festival,
the "Russian Winter" festival in Moscow, the El Paso Pro Musica
International festival, Bargemusic, international festivals in Italy,
Switzerland, France, Germany, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Columbia,
Brazil, Korea, China and Taiwan.

Suren Bagratuni won critical acclaim for his CD releases on the
Ongaku and BGR labels, and also appears on "Melodiya", Marco Polo,
Russian Disc, Cambria and CMH labels. He has been featured on CBC
Radio Canada, WNYC in New York, WGBH in Boston, NPR, and NHK TV Japan.

In addition to his solo activities, Mr. Bagratuni is a member of
the Nobilis; Artistic director of the Cello Plus music festival and
conducts master classes Worldwide.

Former faculty of the New England Conservatory and University of
Illinois, Suren Bagratuni currently is Artist-Teacher and Professor
of cello at Michigan State University College of Music. His students
occupy teaching positions in major universities and perform in
orchestras throughout the U.S. and abroad.