Emmanuel Tjeknavorian

Emmanuel Tjeknavorian (2018)

Emmanuel Tjeknavorian (born April 22, 1995 in Vienna ) is an Austrian violinist and conductor .

Life

Emmanuel Tjeknavorian comes from an Armenian family of musicians and plays the violin . At the age of five he received his first violin lessons in Armenia , where he attended elementary school. At the age of ten he returned to Austria and from 2011 he became a student of Gerhard Schulz at the Vienna University of Music. In June 2014 Emmanuel Tjeknavorian graduated from the Sacre Coeur grammar school in Vienna . In 2014 he began taking conducting lessons from his father Loris Tjeknavorian and attended master classes for young conductors in England and Italy.

Emmanuel Tjeknavorian took lessons from Petros Haykazyan, Artashes Mkrtchyan, and Arkadij Vinokurow. Until 2018 he studied with Gerhard Schulz , formerly a member of the Alban Berg Quartet , at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna .

Since 2017 he has hosted his own monthly radio show Der Klassik-Tjek on Radio Klassik Stephansdom . Numerous broadcasters reported on him, for example he was featured in Titles, Theses, Temperaments and Tagesschau (ARD), Capriccio (BR), Kulturzeit (3sat), on ORF2 and in Stars of Tomorrow with Rolando Villazon (Arte).

Invitations took him to the Gewandhausorchester , the Mahler Chamber Orchestra , the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, the London Symphony Orchestra , the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich , the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin , the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra Washington and conductors like Semyon Bychkov , Riccardo Chailly , Adam Fischer , Edward Gardner , Nicholas Milton , Kristiina Poska , Michael Sanderling and John Storgårds. He gave concerts at the Andermatt Swiss Alps Classics, the Enescu Festival, the Grafenegg Festival , the Sankt Gallen Festival, the Salzburg Mozart Week and the Festival de Paques in Aix en Provence, where he played Mozart's own "Costa violin".