março 26, 2007
ALEXANDER CHAUSHIAN- LONDON GUILHERMINA SUGGIA AWARD
Alexander Chaushian started to play the cello at the age of seven, studying with his grandfather and Zare Sarkisian. From 1992 to 1995, he studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School with Melissa Phelps and from 1995 to 1999 at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London as a student of Oleg Kogan. From 1999 to 2001, Chaushian performed extensively as part of the Kempf Trio, holding a fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Since 2003 he had been pursuing advanced studies at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin with the late Boris Pergamenschikow and later David Geringas, graduating with distinction in 2005.
Alexander Chaushian won First Prize in the 1990 Premio Mozart Competition in Verona, Italy and in 1992, First Prize in the International Music Competition in Holland. He received the Guilhermina Suggia Gift in London, a grant awarded to outstanding string players, on three occasions. In 1997, he was awarded the Orchestra of New England Soloist Prize, as well as the first Summis Auspiciis Prize of Young Concert Artists in New York. In 1999, he was the recipient of the Anna Instone Memorial Award sponsored by Capital Radio. In 2001, he was the joint recipient of the Pierre Fournier Award and in 2002 was awarded third prize in the 12th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Alex Chaushian has won the 3rd prize and the special prize given by the Munich Chamber Orchestra at the Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD in Germany in September 2005.
As a soloist with orchestra, Alexander Chaushian has performed in many countries worldwide, including appearances with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra at Vienna’s Konzerthaus and at the Bruchnerhaus in Linz, as well as with the London Mozart Players and the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Royal National Orchestra of Belgium, Les Solistes Européens de Luxembourg in a gala concert conducted by Yehudi Menuhin, the Boston Pops Orchestra at Boston Symphony Hall, and the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.
Chaushian has performed recitals at the Harrogate Festival in England, the Kuhmo International Festival in Finland, La Jolla Festival in the USA, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and in Montpellier as recipient of the Beracasa Foundation Prize of the Radio-France and in Montpellier Festival. From 2002 until the present he has acted as the artistic director of the Orpheus & Bacchus Festival in Bordeaux, France and the Pharos Trust Music Festival in Cyprus.