Music for Cello and Piano

Suren Bagratuni - Adrian Oetiker (Artist, Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Suren Bagratuni - Adrian Oetiker
• Audio CD (January 14, 2011)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Blue Griffin Recording
• ASIN: B0002HRZKY
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,533,238 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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About the Artist

Winner of the Silver Medal at the 1986 International Tchaikovsky Competition while still a student at the Moscow Conservatory, Suren Bagratuni has gone on to a distinguished international career as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. Born in Yerevan, Armenia, Mr. Bagratuni began his musical education there at the age of seven. After winning several national and international competitions he continued his studies at the Moscow Conservatory with Professor Natalia Shakhovskaya and the legendary Daniel Shafran. In the United States Mr. Bagratuni was awarded the Artist Diploma of the New England Conservatory of Music. Mr. Bagratuni has performed with all the major orchestras in the former Soviet Union. He has appeared with the Boston Pops, L’Orchestre Jeune Philharmonie in Paris, the Weimar Staatskapelle, and orchestras of Rostok, Erfurt, and Halle, the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, and symphony orchestras of Chile, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic to name! a few. His solo appearances include recitals in Russia, USA, Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, and Taiwan. The Boston Globe called his performance of the Shostakovich D Minor Sonata at Jordan Hall in Boston "one of the best performances of the year." With the composer as pianist, he performed Ned Rorem’s Suite for Cello and Piano at Carnegie Hall. Suren Bagratuni has been featured on CBC Radio, WNYC in New York, National Public Radio, and NHK TV in Japan. In addition to his solo activities, Mr. Bagratuni is Professor of Cello at Michigan State University and a member of the Trio Nobilis. Adrian Oetiker In recent years Adrian Oetiker has established an international name for himself through his successful concertizing in Europe and the United States. He won the prestigious ARD International Piano Competition in Munich in 1995. In 1996 he was appointed professor of piano at the Musikakademie Basel. Adrian Oetiker was born in St. Gallen, Switzerland, in 1968 and took his first piano lessons from his father. Later studies led him to the Conservatory of Zurich where he became a student of Homero Francesch, and to the Juilliard School of Music, where he studied with Bella Davidovich. As a student he won numerous awards, including the Gina Bachauer Scholarship Competition of the Juilliard School of Music. He has performed with many Swiss orchestras, including the Tonhalle Orchester Zurich at the Orpheum Music Festival in 1996, as well as with such orchestras as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Irish National Symphony, and the Kielce Philharmonic Orchestra. As a recitalist and chamber musician he has performed in Zurich, Berlin, Milan, Istanbul, Washington DC, and Detroit, to name but a fewAdrian Oetiker’s more recent busy concert schedule has included performances in Austria and at the International Music Festival in Lucern, as well as a tour with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.