Hripsime Aghakaryan
Pianist
Biography
Nikolay Madoyan was born on June 1, 1973 in Yerevan. Madoyan won First Prize at the All-Russian Music Competition for Young Violinists in Novosibirsk, Russia and the Grand Prize at the International Kullenkampf Competition of Violinists in Cologne, Germany. He is the Laureate and the Spectators and Journalists Special Prize winner at the IV International Lipinski and Wieniawski International Competition for Young Violinists in Lublin, Poland and the Laureate and Special Prize winner for the Best Performer of the Japanese Work at Tokyo International Competition of Violinists.
Nikolay Madoyan's innovative playing technique helped pave his way into The Guinness World Records which was published in the 2019 Guinness World Records book as an “Officially amazing” achievement. This methodology facilitated him to bring about the continuous performance of complex classical compositions lasting more than thirty-three hours. Among other most recent successes is an impressive performance of all six Paganini's Violin Concertos played by memory in one concert, the first time in history, with immaculate virtuosity, which can certainly be recorded in the chronicles as an epochal contribution to the art of violin performance.
As a child prodigy, Nikolay Madoyan has always been captivated by the mystical world of violin and music. Madoyan studied under Professor H. Bogdanyan and later with the legendary Professor Z. Bron at the Novosibirsk Glinka Conservatory wunderkind class. Together with professor Bron's class, at the invitation of the Lübeck Music Academy, Madoyan moved to live and study in Germany, where he made a sensational debut at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival with the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev. The European public was stunned by the young musician's inimitable artistry and technical mastery. Madoyan took master classes from outstanding violinists Isaac Stern and Miriam Solovieff and for years he would perform together with Isaac Stern in France and other countries
Subsequently, Nikolay Madoyan launched a successful series of concert tours in Germany with the London Mozart Players Orchestra conducted by Matthias Bamert and undertook a major tour of the United Kingdom under the baton of Arnold Katz receiving high praise from the press and audiences alike.
The trio “Madoyan-Westenholz-Denitzen” that Madoyan founded successfully toured around Europe for several years, featuring works by Shostakovich, Schubert, Beethoven and Ravel. Madoyan’s collaboration with the pianist Elizabeth Westenholz resulted in highly acclaimed CDs, released by Kontrapunkt and Cowbell, featuring violin sonatas by Mendelsohn, Grieg, Schubert, Prokofiev, Strauss and Franck. Gramophone wrote: “Madoyan and Westenholz are a strong, articulate, well-proportioned and mutually reciprocal partnership.”
Madoyan's repertoire includes an extensive range of violin works. He has performed worldwide, appearing in major venues and halls with a number of world's best symphony orchestras and conductors such as Helmut Muller-Bruhl, Richard Hickox, Kurt Mazur, Frans Brüggen, Claudio Abbado, Arnold Katz, Dmitri Kitayenko, Valery Gergiev, Leopold Hager, Richard Dufallo, Karen Durgaryan, Kees Bakels, Nikolai Alekseyev, Vasily Sinaisky, Erich Vechter, Eduard Topchjan, George A. Albrecht, Janos Furst and many more.
Madoyan has also been touring with recitals - introducing his readings of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, Beethoven’s Ten Sonatas for Violin and Piano, Ysaye’s Six Sonatas and the works of Paganini including the 24 Caprices that have been performed in one evening with no intermission.
Nikolay Madoyan is an Honorary Professor at the Yerevan State Conservatory and holds the title of the Merited Artist of Armenia for supreme mastery and excellence in the promotion of arts. He has contributed greatly to promoting the violin works of Armenian composers. In 2003 Madoyan received the President Prize of the Republic of Armenia for the best performance of the fifteen violin miniatures created by the 17-20 centuries outstanding composers. Madoyan plays a Guarneri violin of the early 18th century.
Nikolay Madoyan's innovative playing technique helped pave his way into The Guinness World Records which was published in the 2019 Guinness World Records book as an “Officially amazing” achievement. This methodology facilitated him to bring about the continuous performance of complex classical compositions lasting more than thirty-three hours. Among other most recent successes is an impressive performance of all six Paganini's Violin Concertos played by memory in one concert, the first time in history, with immaculate virtuosity, which can certainly be recorded in the chronicles as an epochal contribution to the art of violin performance.
As a child prodigy, Nikolay Madoyan has always been captivated by the mystical world of violin and music. Madoyan studied under Professor H. Bogdanyan and later with the legendary Professor Z. Bron at the Novosibirsk Glinka Conservatory wunderkind class. Together with professor Bron's class, at the invitation of the Lübeck Music Academy, Madoyan moved to live and study in Germany, where he made a sensational debut at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival with the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev. The European public was stunned by the young musician's inimitable artistry and technical mastery. Madoyan took master classes from outstanding violinists Isaac Stern and Miriam Solovieff and for years he would perform together with Isaac Stern in France and other countries
Subsequently, Nikolay Madoyan launched a successful series of concert tours in Germany with the London Mozart Players Orchestra conducted by Matthias Bamert and undertook a major tour of the United Kingdom under the baton of Arnold Katz receiving high praise from the press and audiences alike.
The trio “Madoyan-Westenholz-Denitzen” that Madoyan founded successfully toured around Europe for several years, featuring works by Shostakovich, Schubert, Beethoven and Ravel. Madoyan’s collaboration with the pianist Elizabeth Westenholz resulted in highly acclaimed CDs, released by Kontrapunkt and Cowbell, featuring violin sonatas by Mendelsohn, Grieg, Schubert, Prokofiev, Strauss and Franck. Gramophone wrote: “Madoyan and Westenholz are a strong, articulate, well-proportioned and mutually reciprocal partnership.”
Madoyan's repertoire includes an extensive range of violin works. He has performed worldwide, appearing in major venues and halls with a number of world's best symphony orchestras and conductors such as Helmut Muller-Bruhl, Richard Hickox, Kurt Mazur, Frans Brüggen, Claudio Abbado, Arnold Katz, Dmitri Kitayenko, Valery Gergiev, Leopold Hager, Richard Dufallo, Karen Durgaryan, Kees Bakels, Nikolai Alekseyev, Vasily Sinaisky, Erich Vechter, Eduard Topchjan, George A. Albrecht, Janos Furst and many more.
Madoyan has also been touring with recitals - introducing his readings of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, Beethoven’s Ten Sonatas for Violin and Piano, Ysaye’s Six Sonatas and the works of Paganini including the 24 Caprices that have been performed in one evening with no intermission.
Nikolay Madoyan is an Honorary Professor at the Yerevan State Conservatory and holds the title of the Merited Artist of Armenia for supreme mastery and excellence in the promotion of arts. He has contributed greatly to promoting the violin works of Armenian composers. In 2003 Madoyan received the President Prize of the Republic of Armenia for the best performance of the fifteen violin miniatures created by the 17-20 centuries outstanding composers. Madoyan plays a Guarneri violin of the early 18th century.
