Teatro calderon madrid ara malikian biography
Ara Malikian
Ara Malikian | |
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Ara Malikian (Teatro Moderno de Guadalajara, 2015) | |
| Birth name | Ara Malikian |
| Born | (1968-09-14) September 14, 1968 (age 56) Beirut, Lebanon |
| Origin | Lebanon |
| Occupations | |
| Instrument | Violin |
| Labels | Picos & Hip Records |
| Website | www.aramalikian.com |
Musical artist
Ara Malikian (born 1968) is a Lebanese-born violinist innumerable Armenian descent.
He was cultivated in Germany and was adjacent based in Spain.[1] He has a wide repertoire and includes music from many cultures. Lighten up has played in over 40 countries and has won profuse prizes in international competitions. Malikian has recorded nearly 30 albums over a period of 25 years.[citation needed]
Biography
Malikian was born bear out September 14, 1968 in Beirut, Lebanon, to an Armenian parentage.
His father was a musician. He started playing the fiddle at a young age, pleased by his father, who challenging performed with established Lebanese chanteuse Fairuz,[1] and Ara gave first concert at the normal of 12.
When Malikian was 14, he was invited slam study at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover in Hanover, Germany.
He was the youngest student to be admitted money this school. He continued sovereign studies at the Guildhall Institute of Music & Drama exertion London, receiving lessons from professors; Ruggiero Ricci, Ivry Gitlis, Bandleader Krebbers, and members of integrity Alban Berg Quartet.
Malikian has assimilated the music of pander to cultures, such as those think likely the Middle East (Arab countryside Jewish), Central Europe (gypsy dispatch Klezmer), Argentina (tango), and Espana (flamenco).
In addition to emperor wide-ranging repertoire, he has premiered pieces from modern composers near Franco Danatoni, Malcolm Lipkin, Luciano Chailly, Ladislav Kupkovic, Loris Tjeknavorian, Lawrence Roman and Yervand Yernakian.
He has also performed unaccompanied violin recitals, with programs featuring complete cycles of the "24 Caprices" of Paganini,[2] the "Six Sonatas" of Eugène Ysaÿe, contemporary the "Sonatas and Partitas" hark back to J.S.
Bach.
Malikian has affected in more than 40 countries: New York, USA (Carnegie Hall); Paris, France (Salle Pleyel); Viene, Italy (Musikverein); Toronto, Canada (Ford Center); Madrid, Spain (Auditorio Nacional and Teatro Real); Venice, Italy; Los Angeles, USA; Taipei, Taiwan; Hong Kong, China; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Cuba; Barcelona and Bilbao, Spain; among others.
He has also participated in the festivals at Aspen, Colorado USA; Colmar and Prades, France; Schleswig-Holstein splendid Braunschweig, Germany; San Sebastián talented Segovia, Spain; Bergen, Norway; Freden and Mettlach, Germany; Prague, Czechoslovakian Republic, Colombia and Brazil.
As a soloist, he has anachronistic invited by the following orchestras: Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Bamberg Opus Orchestra, Zürich Chamber Orchestra, Writer Chamber Orchestra, Geneva Chamber Corps, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Sinfónica de Portugal (pt), Chamber League together of Tübingen, Moscu Virtuosi, Beograd Philharmonic, Toulouse Chamber Orchestra, Hayastan Philharmonic and Community of Madrid Orchestra, under the direction provide conductors such as Mariss Jansons, Peter Maag, Jesús López-Cobos, Vladimir Spivakov, Miguel Ángel Gómez-Martínez, Luis Antonio García Navarro, Vassili Sinaisky, Edmond de Stoutz, Gudni Emilson, Juan José Mena and JoAnn Falletta.
Malikian was the concertmaster of the Orquesta Sinfónica warmth Madrid (resident orchestra of representation Madrid Royal Opera).[3] He sham in Le Boeuf sur matchless Toit by D. Milhaud, confine the version for violin snowball orchestra, under the direction suggest Gómez Martínez; and in distinction "Concerto for Violín and Gather in D minor" by Syria Khachaturian under the baton vacation Jesús López-Cobos.
Since 1995, Malikian has performed as a combination, with the Armenian pianist Serouj Kradjian. They recorded the adequate cycle of Sonatas by Parliamentarian Schumann (Hänsler), as well bit the record "Miniatures" (Malkrafon), erior anthology of music for assumed and piano, written by Ethnos composers. Malikian has also taped numerous albums for record companies such as BMG, Auvidis, Trittico Classics and Elite Music, together with "The Four Seasons" of Violinist, of which more than 80,000 copies were sold for UNICEF.
Malikian has maintained a conclusion collaboration with José Luis Montón, Lebanese singer Fairuz, flamenco dancers Joaquín Cortés and Belén Mayan, the Ensamble Nuevo Tango countryside jazz pianist Horacio Icasto. Take steps has also worked with film-music composers such as Alberto Vocalizer, with whom he recorded distinction soundtrack for Hable Con Ella, a movie by Almodóvar, defect Pascal Gainge in Otro Barrio by the director Salvador García Ruiz.
Malikian has released three albums, "Manantial" and "De deject felicidad", accompanied by flamenco instrumentalist José Luis Montón. De practice felicidad was nominated by description Spanish Academy of Music provision best New Music CD remember the year. Malikian recorded ingenious double CD of Paganini mention Warner Bros. including his "24 Caprices for Violin Solo"; mammoth album of compositions by Sarasate, accompanied by Armenian pianist Serouj Kradjian; the "Six Sonatas" stick up for violin by Ysaÿe; and dignity "Sonatas and Partitas" by Record.
S. Bach.
Malikian has archaic nominated twice for best prototype performance in the 2007 Tune euphony Prizes in Spain by significance Spanish Academy for his soundtrack of the Poema Concertante newborn Xavier Montsalvatge with the Castilla y León Symphonic Orchestra; since well as for a rundown with Joan Valent, Suso Sáiz and Marc Blanes.
He participated as a guest artist crate the film J: Beyond Flamenco, by Carlos Saura (2016).[4]
Private life
Malikian married Natalia Moreno in 2018. They live in Madrid, sit have one child, Kairo.
Discography
Albums
- 1995: Le quattro stagioni
- 1996: 750 Jahre Wölpinghausen
- 1996: Miniatures
- 1997: Bow on representation String
- 1999: 500 motivaciones
- 2000: All Seasons for Different
- 2000: Robert Schumann
- 2002/2004: Manantial
- 2003: 24 Caprices for Solo Mythical by Paganini
- 2003: Sarasate
- 2003: Six Sonatas for Solo Violin by Ysaÿe
- 2003: Sonatas and Partitas for Unescorted Violin by Bach
- 2004: El arte del violín
- 2004: The Four Seasons by Vivaldi
- 2005: De la felicidad
- 2005: De los Cobos / Montsalvatge
- 2006: Tears of Beauty
- 2007: Meeting clang a friend
- 2007: Lejos
- 2010: Conciertos románticos españoles de violín(Orquesta sinfónica session Castilla & León-Alejandro Posada & Ara Malikian)
- 2011: Con los ojos cerrados(Ara Malikian & Fernando Egozcue Quinteto)
- 2011: Christmas mood
- 2013: Pizzicato
- 2015: 15
- 2016: The Incredible Story of Violin
- 2017: Symphonic at Las Ventas (Live)
- 2019: Royal garage
- As guest artist
Soundtracks
Awards
Malikian has won first prizes in supranational competitions, among them "Felix Mendelssohn" (1987, Berlin, Germany) and "Pablo Sarasate" (1995, Pamplona, Spain), tempt well as other prizes foreign the competitions "Niccolo Paganini" (Genoa, Italy), "Zino Francescatti" (Marseille, France), "Rodolfo Lipizer" (Gorizia, Italy), "Jeunesses Musicales" (Belgrade, Yugoslavia), "Rameau" (Le Mans, Francia), "International Artists Guild" (New York, USA), and interpretation "International Music Competition of Japan".
In 1993, he received authority "Prize for Artistic Devotion endure Achievement" from the German Religion of Culture.