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"Hayk Melikyan, a pianist with a strongly individual personality and a winner of international piano competitions, was born in Yerevan in 1980. He first learnt the piano with Irina Grishinskaya, then went to the Yerevan State Conservatory where he studied with professor Alexander Gurgenov, with whom he also completed a post-graduate course in 2005. Professor Gurgenov’s teaching follows the great traditions of the Russian piano school, specifically that of Felix Blumenfeld and Konstantin Igumnov. Its synthesis gives most interesting and fruitful results. He has also studied composition at the Yerevan State Conservatory in professor Vardan Achemyan’s class. From his very first performances, Hayk Melikyan has attracted the attention of the musical world by his great technical potential and the original intellectual meaning he gives to the musical images. He has now burgeoned into a mature artist with his own vision of the world. We are drawn to his interpretations by the wealth of reflection that comes across, as well as by their ability to feel and convey the development of the musical process with its various lines and layers, by the richness of his sometimes orchestral tones, and by his way of bringing out those details that matter so much in understanding the general structure of a piece. Hayk Melikyan’s concert début took place at the “CONCERTO DI CONCERTI” International Festival of the 20th Century Music in Rome /Italy/ in 2000. He leads an active concert life, playing in Armenia, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico and the Netherlands. His performances have various formats: he plays as a soloist, with chamber ensembles and Armenian State Philharmonic Orchestra. His repertoire contains an impressive variety of styles, epochs and schools; he performs the works of European and Russian composers alike, classical as well as romantic. After having won the second prize at the international piano competition for 20th century and contemporary music “PREMIO VALENTINO BUCCHI” in Rome in 2000 he has included contemporary music as a leading part of his concert programs. In 2008, Hayk Melikyan was granted with “SAMSON FRANCOIS” special prize at the Orleans international piano competition. He is the first performer of many Armenian and foreign composers in Armenia and abroad. We are confident that the 20th and 21st century music has found a devoted and talented advocate in the person of Hayk Melikyan."
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