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Gurgen  Baveyan

Gurgen Baveyan

Baritone

  • Baritone

Biography

Gurgen Baveyan graduated from the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory and Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt am Main, under the tutelage of Hedwig Fassbender.
He received the Young Singer of the Year award from the President of the Republic of Armenia in 2010 and was the second prize winner at the 2013 Pavel Lisitsian Competition in Moscow. 

Gurgen was a member of the Accademia Rossiniana at ROF, Pesaro. Nominated as the "most sought after singer" of the year by the OpernWelt magazine in 2018, Gurgen’s recent career highlights include the role of Don Alvaro in Il viaggio a Reims at both Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, and in the golden hall of Musikverein as part of Juan Diego Florez & Friends Rossini Gala concert. He sang Dandini in La Cenerentola for the New Generation Festival at the Boboli Gardens in Florence and the role of Schaunard in La bohème at Stadttheater Klagenfurt. Gurgen was Michelotto Cibo in a concert performance of Die Gezeichneten at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and performed at the Festival of White Nights with the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg.

As a member of the Opera Studio and later on as a guest artist at Oper Frankfurt, Gurgen has performed a variety of roles, most notably Il conte in Le nozze di Figaro, Marullo in Rigoletto, Cekunov/Small Prisoner in From the House of the Dead, Major Domo in Capriccio etc. In 2008-13 he was a member of the ensemble at the Armenian National Theatre and a guest artist at the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra and Yerevan Opera Studio where he sang Silvio in Pagliacci, Ping in Turandot and Schaunard in La boheme, Moralès in Carmen, Belcore in L՛elisir d’amore and Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor.

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