Svetlana Navasardyan
Pianist
- Pianist
Biography
An artist par excellence, Dame Svetlana Navassardian, the great Armenian pianist, is universally recognized as a “personality indisputable”, “a most fascinating Pianist”, who, as music critics have characterized her, “grows up to a symbol-a symbol of confrontation for anything that embodies the routine and predictability of modern pianism”.
Laureate of the Schumann, Bach, Queen-Elizabeth and Sidney international piano competitions, Dame Navassardian has a talent and style of performance which the rave international reviews have portrayed as “superb and of a very rare flexibility”; as one characterized by a “uniqueness of vision and depth of personal reading” – as “beauty… rarely heard!”
A welcome frequenter at high-profile international festivals and the major concert halls around the world-be it the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, the Opera House of Sydney, the Palais des Beaux-Arts of Brussels, the Salle Gaveau of Paris, the Gewandhaus of Leipzig, the Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires, the Asahi Hall of Tokyo, the Phoenix-Hall of Osaka, or the Nybrokajen of Stockholm and-Dame Navassardian has widely toured internationally with recitals in the USA, Canada, Great Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Greece, Japan, China, Australia, Egypt, Kuwait, and elsewhere.
An artist of international fame and recognition, Dame Navassardian’s vibrant musical career is saturated with numerous collaborations with world-renowned soloists and prominent conductors, and among them E. Svetlanov, V. Gergiev, V. Sinaisky, K. Etti, Ch. Warren-Green, E. Virsaladze, E. Kissin, V. Spivakov, Y. Bashmet.
Her repertoire includes more than 60 concertos for the piano and orchestra only, among them all the concertos of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven in line with a manifold of monographic programs.
A guest professor at Yerevan Komitas Conservatory; Svetlana Navassardian is affiliated closely with prominent musical institutions, Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, Lille Academia in Stockholm, Hochschule Essen in Germany, as well as other musical establishments in France, Germany, Japan. An inheritor of the grand traditions of Henry Neuhaus, imparted to her by her teachers, Yakov Zak and Vache Umr-Shat, Svetlana Navassardian holds master-classes all around the world.
In 2010 Svetlana Navassardian was awarded St. Mesrop Mashtots Order, the Armenian highest government award.
Laureate of the Schumann, Bach, Queen-Elizabeth and Sidney international piano competitions, Dame Navassardian has a talent and style of performance which the rave international reviews have portrayed as “superb and of a very rare flexibility”; as one characterized by a “uniqueness of vision and depth of personal reading” – as “beauty… rarely heard!”
A welcome frequenter at high-profile international festivals and the major concert halls around the world-be it the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, the Opera House of Sydney, the Palais des Beaux-Arts of Brussels, the Salle Gaveau of Paris, the Gewandhaus of Leipzig, the Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires, the Asahi Hall of Tokyo, the Phoenix-Hall of Osaka, or the Nybrokajen of Stockholm and-Dame Navassardian has widely toured internationally with recitals in the USA, Canada, Great Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Greece, Japan, China, Australia, Egypt, Kuwait, and elsewhere.
An artist of international fame and recognition, Dame Navassardian’s vibrant musical career is saturated with numerous collaborations with world-renowned soloists and prominent conductors, and among them E. Svetlanov, V. Gergiev, V. Sinaisky, K. Etti, Ch. Warren-Green, E. Virsaladze, E. Kissin, V. Spivakov, Y. Bashmet.
Her repertoire includes more than 60 concertos for the piano and orchestra only, among them all the concertos of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven in line with a manifold of monographic programs.
A guest professor at Yerevan Komitas Conservatory; Svetlana Navassardian is affiliated closely with prominent musical institutions, Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, Lille Academia in Stockholm, Hochschule Essen in Germany, as well as other musical establishments in France, Germany, Japan. An inheritor of the grand traditions of Henry Neuhaus, imparted to her by her teachers, Yakov Zak and Vache Umr-Shat, Svetlana Navassardian holds master-classes all around the world.
In 2010 Svetlana Navassardian was awarded St. Mesrop Mashtots Order, the Armenian highest government award.