Armen Guzelimian

ARMEN GUZELIMIAN enjoys a distinguished international career of remarkable versatility. Aside from being a virtuoso soloist in his own right, he is acclaimed as a collaborative pianist in the U.S. and abroad and is also a prominent vocal coach. As soloist, Guzelimian has appeared with the American Youth Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the L.A. Chamber Orchestra, the Nebraska Chamber Orchestra, and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Music festival appearances include the Steamboat Springs Chamber Music Festival (Colorado) and the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, among others. He has performed in the major concert halls of the world, from New York’s Lincoln Center to London’s South Bank and the Vienna Musikvereinsaal; his recent engagements have included concerts at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels.

In the realm of contemporary music, Guzelimian has had the great fortune of working with or performing in the presence of such great composers as Aram Khachaturian, Alan Hovhaness, Witold Lutoslawski, and Thomas Pasatieri. He was a faculty member of the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara for seven years, and was noted as distinguished visiting faculty at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester in the 1993/94 season. He was also for many years an Adjunct Professor at the USC School of Music.
 
Guzelimian has partnered such distinguished artists as violinists Viktoria Mullova, Thomas Zehetmair, Miriam Fried, and Iona Brown, and violist Lars Tomter. His extensive collaborations with great vocalists include concerts and recital tours with Lucia Popp, Peter Schreier, Thomas Hampson, Elisabeth Söderström, Jorma Hynninen, and Florence Quivar, with whom he performed at Alice Tully Hall in 1995. His various recordings appear on the EMI/Angel, Teldec, Nonesuch, Delos, Orion, and Crystal labels. Many of the pianist’s performances have been heard in live broadcasts on the APR and NPR radio networks. He has served as juror on the panels of many piano, chamber music, and vocal competitions and auditions, and he is frequently invited to give master classes for pianists and singers.

Last summer, Guzelimian participated in the 50th anniversary season of the Aspen School and Festival, where he gave four master classes and two concerts.

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