Julietta Vardanyan ( hy, Ջուլիետա Վարդանյան) is an Armenian

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, and

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Biography

Vardanyan was born in

Yerevan Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Y ...

. She graduated from the

Yerevan State Conservatory Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan ( hy, Երևանի Կոմիտասի անվան պետական կոնսերվատորիա), also known as Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory (YKSC) or Yerevan State Conservatory (YSC), is a state-owned colleg ...

(Professor Vagharshak Harutyunyan). She has had master classes by pianists

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and Boris Berman ( Obidos,

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). As a soloist performed with ''Narekatsi'', "Four Seasons" (

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), the Moldova's National Chamber Orchestras, Armenia State Youth, Opera and Ballet National and Zaporozhye (

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) Symphonic Orchestras, conductors V. Bulakhov (

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), C. Florea (

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), A. Khaindrava (

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), Sergey Smbatyan R. Asatryan, A. Talalyan, M. Kokzhayev, Y. Yakulov. She is the first performer of the piano concertos of Composer Yakov Yakulov (USA) and Hayg Boyadjian. Since 2013 she is the executive director of "Talalyan Brothers" festival. Since 2009 she has formed a piano-cello duo "Ars lunga". At present "Ars Lunga" makes "Anthology of Armenian Chamber Music" recordings part 2, which summarizes Armenian piano trios (compositions for piano, violin and cello).

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Interview with Julietta Vardanyan
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vardanyan, Julietta 1983 births Living people Musicians from Yerevan Armenian harpsichordists Armenian pianists Armenian women pianists Armenian organists Women organists 21st-century pianists 21st-century organists 21st-century Armenian musicians 21st-century Armenian women musicians 21st-century classical musicians Women harpsichordists 21st-century women pianists

Biography

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