VIOLETTA KHACHIKYAN
 

Violetta Khachikyan is a versatile concert pianist and celebrated chamber music  partner. Born in Krasnodar in southern Russia, she first studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and then at the Lübeck University of Music.
She has won the European Piano Competition in Bremen and numerous international competitions such as the George Enescu Music Competition in Bucharest, the Maj Lind Competition in Helsinki, the Scottish International Piano Competition in Glasgow and many others.

She has given concerts in Europe and Russia and has worked with, among others the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonics, the Bremen Philharmonics, the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck and the St. Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra.

Numerous concert appearances have taken her to the Beethovenfest Bonn, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Aarhus International Piano Festival, the Aarhus Chamber Music Festival and the Brahms Festival Lübeck.

As a chamber music partner, she performs with young ensembles at the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Berlin Philharmonie and collaborates with renowned musicians. Her third CD “Fugenpassion” was released by GWK-Records at the end of March 2020.
Violetta Khachikyan currently teaches as a lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK).

(doors open 6:45pm)

Violetta Khachikyan
Piano Solo Recital

program:

"Mein heller Garten" (My bright garden)

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C.Debussy: Suite Bergamasque

Debussy's reminiscence of French Baroque music also includes the wonderful 3rd movement Clair de Lune - Debussy's poetic recreation of moonlight and its effects on the nocturnal observer.

Marianne v.Martinez: Sonata A major
This short 3-movement sonata (1765) is one of the few surviving works by the highly talented Austrian Haydn student Marianne von Martinez.

E.Satie: Sonatina Bureaucratique
A wonderfully irreverent reinterpretation of 18th century music - written in 1910. Almost a parody: 3 movements in 4 minutes ...

S.Scheidt: Variations ocer a  Gagliarde by John Dowland
John Dowland composed more than 30 of the Galliard dances - often for lute - which were so popular in the 16th century. Samuel Scheidt's Variations was written for organ - here as an arrangement for piano.

L.Boulanger: D'un vieux jardin
                     D'un jardin clair
                     Cortege

M.Ravel: Suite “Le Tombeau De Couperin”
Composed between 1914 and 1917, the movements of this piano suite are each dedicated to one of Ravel's comrades-in-arms who died in the First World War - inspired by the great French Baroque master François Couperin.