Hripsime Aghakaryan
Pianist
Biography
Born on Labor Day in Armenia and living in France since the age of twenty, Varduhi Yeritsyan occupies a unique position in the world of piano. Through her dual culture inherited from great masters such as Brigitte Engerer, Vladimir Krainev, Mstislav Rostropovich, Denis Pascal and Claire Désert, she is both a specialist in the Russian repertoire and a regular performer of French music. After her graduation from Tchaikovsky Specialized School of Music in Yerevan, she joined the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris where she obtained the highest awards in piano and chamber music. She participates in the development cycle in these two disciplines, respectively with Brigitte Engerer who has been her real mentor since arriving in France, and Marc Coppey.
In 2007, Varduhi Yeritsyan won the Avant-Scènes competition at the Paris Conservatory. She is also a laureate of the Natixis foundations - Banque populaire, Tarrazi, Nadia and Lili Boulanger, Meyer and l'Or du Rhin, and has been a “classic revelation” of ADAMI in 2007. Since the end of her studies, marked by her interpretation of Aram Khatchaturian's Concerto at the Cité de la Musique, she has been a guest of many festivals (Folle Journée de Nantes, festival de la Roque d'Anthéron, Piano aux Jacobins de Toulouse, Berlioz festival at La Côte Saint André , Pianofolies de Touquet, Piano en Valois, Saint Lizier festival, Piano (s) in Lille, Les solistes aux Serres d'Auteuil, Beauvais international cello festival, Sully sur Loire festival, Messiaen de la Meije festival) and a performed on many French and international stages such as the Louvre auditorium, the Cité de la Musique and the Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Arsenal in Metz, the Halle aux Grains in Toulouse, or the Casa da Musica in Porto, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, The Hague Theater, the T Philharmonic check from Prague, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, the Estonia Theater in Tallinn ...
Recognized for her interpretations of Alexandre Scriabin, of whom she regularly plays the complete piano sonatas, she is also a passionate chamber musician and has shared the stage with Brigitte Engerer, the Danel, Psophos, Zemlinsky, Ardeo quartets, the violinists Renaud Capuçon, Fanny Clamagirand, Hae Sun Kang, Geneviève Laurenceau and Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian, cellist Marc Coppey, bassoonist Pascal Gallois, pianists François-Frédéric Guy and Vardan Mamikonian, jazz musicians Mederic Collignon, Tigran Hamasyan, Paul Lay or the player by doudouk Araik Bartikian. She is also particularly fond of the role of soloist and in recent years, she has played under the direction of conductors such as Alain Altinoglu, Alexander Anissimov, Fabien Gabel, Claire Gibault, Christoph Koenig, Bruno Mantovani, Tugan Sokhiev or Zahia Ziouani at the head of orchestras. from Brittany, Ile de France, BBC in London, Casa da Musica in Porto, Shanghai Philharmonic, Strasbourg Philharmonic and Toulouse Capitol ...
She was a laureate of the prestigious Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation in 2010, which supported the recording of a CD dedicated to Serge Prokofiev published in 2012. Varduhi Yeritsyan has participated in numerous radio shows on France Musique, notably with Gaëlle the Gallic "In the big leagues", Arièle Butaux "An ideal Tuesday" or Jean-Pierre Derrien for "The morning of the musicians".
For the 2015-2016 season, she is among others the guest of the Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne, the Opéra de Vichy, the Salle Molière in Lyon, the Hector Berlioz festivals at the Côte Saint-André, the “Serres d'Auteil ”In Paris - Bagatelles,“ Piano Fortissimo ”in Elne,“ Piano aux Jacobins ”in Toulouse and“ Classique au Vert ”Paris | Floral Park. His recordings of the complete 10 Sonatas by Alexandre Scriabin as well as a disc devoted to Armenian music, made at the Imperial Theater in Compiègne for the Paraty label | Distribution Harmonia Mundi are unanimously hailed by international critics.
She is an assistant in Denis Pascal's piano class at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris.
Photo credit: Charlotte Bommelaer
In 2007, Varduhi Yeritsyan won the Avant-Scènes competition at the Paris Conservatory. She is also a laureate of the Natixis foundations - Banque populaire, Tarrazi, Nadia and Lili Boulanger, Meyer and l'Or du Rhin, and has been a “classic revelation” of ADAMI in 2007. Since the end of her studies, marked by her interpretation of Aram Khatchaturian's Concerto at the Cité de la Musique, she has been a guest of many festivals (Folle Journée de Nantes, festival de la Roque d'Anthéron, Piano aux Jacobins de Toulouse, Berlioz festival at La Côte Saint André , Pianofolies de Touquet, Piano en Valois, Saint Lizier festival, Piano (s) in Lille, Les solistes aux Serres d'Auteuil, Beauvais international cello festival, Sully sur Loire festival, Messiaen de la Meije festival) and a performed on many French and international stages such as the Louvre auditorium, the Cité de la Musique and the Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Arsenal in Metz, the Halle aux Grains in Toulouse, or the Casa da Musica in Porto, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, The Hague Theater, the T Philharmonic check from Prague, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, the Estonia Theater in Tallinn ...
Recognized for her interpretations of Alexandre Scriabin, of whom she regularly plays the complete piano sonatas, she is also a passionate chamber musician and has shared the stage with Brigitte Engerer, the Danel, Psophos, Zemlinsky, Ardeo quartets, the violinists Renaud Capuçon, Fanny Clamagirand, Hae Sun Kang, Geneviève Laurenceau and Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian, cellist Marc Coppey, bassoonist Pascal Gallois, pianists François-Frédéric Guy and Vardan Mamikonian, jazz musicians Mederic Collignon, Tigran Hamasyan, Paul Lay or the player by doudouk Araik Bartikian. She is also particularly fond of the role of soloist and in recent years, she has played under the direction of conductors such as Alain Altinoglu, Alexander Anissimov, Fabien Gabel, Claire Gibault, Christoph Koenig, Bruno Mantovani, Tugan Sokhiev or Zahia Ziouani at the head of orchestras. from Brittany, Ile de France, BBC in London, Casa da Musica in Porto, Shanghai Philharmonic, Strasbourg Philharmonic and Toulouse Capitol ...
She was a laureate of the prestigious Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation in 2010, which supported the recording of a CD dedicated to Serge Prokofiev published in 2012. Varduhi Yeritsyan has participated in numerous radio shows on France Musique, notably with Gaëlle the Gallic "In the big leagues", Arièle Butaux "An ideal Tuesday" or Jean-Pierre Derrien for "The morning of the musicians".
For the 2015-2016 season, she is among others the guest of the Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne, the Opéra de Vichy, the Salle Molière in Lyon, the Hector Berlioz festivals at the Côte Saint-André, the “Serres d'Auteil ”In Paris - Bagatelles,“ Piano Fortissimo ”in Elne,“ Piano aux Jacobins ”in Toulouse and“ Classique au Vert ”Paris | Floral Park. His recordings of the complete 10 Sonatas by Alexandre Scriabin as well as a disc devoted to Armenian music, made at the Imperial Theater in Compiègne for the Paraty label | Distribution Harmonia Mundi are unanimously hailed by international critics.
She is an assistant in Denis Pascal's piano class at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris.
Photo credit: Charlotte Bommelaer
