Anush Nikogosyan
Armenian violinist Anush Nikogosyan was born in 1989 in Yerevan and appeared first time with the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra aged only 10 on stage of Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in e minor. Since then, she has made concert engagements in many important concert halls and festivals, among others: the Walt Disney Hall Los Angeles (USA), Mariinsky Theater Concert Hall St. Petersburg, Warsaw National Philharmonic Hall.
Anush Nikogosyan has been awarded a number of prestigious awards. In 2010 she won the International Wörthersee Kärntner Sparkasse Violin Competition (Austria). The chairman of competition Maestro Fabio Luisi further invited her to the "Pacific Music Festival" in Sapporo (Japan) to perform Tchaikovsky's violin concerto in D major. In addition to classical repertoire, Anush Nikogosyan also performs the works by contemporary composers.
Above all, it is important to her to present music of her homeland Armenia. Among the works of composers she performed it is important to mention those by Khachaturian, Mansurian, Baghdasaryan, Babajanyan, Mirzoyan and many others.
Anush Nikogosyan plays a Giovanni Baptista Guadagnini violin (Milan, 1753).