Nelly Akopian

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Nelly Akopian , (also Nelly Akopian-Tamarina , Russian Нелли Акопян-Тамарина , scientific transliteration Nelli Akopjan-Tamarina ; born January 5, 1941 in Moscow ) is a Russian pianist .

Career

At the age of nine, Nelly Akopian, who was born in Moscow, performed Haydn concerts in public with an orchestra. She first studied with the Armenian pianist Anaida Sumbatyan at the Moscow Music School. At the Moscow Conservatory she became one of the last students of Alexander Goldenweiser . He was intimately familiar with the works of Alexander Scriabin , Sergei Rachmaninoff and Nikolai Karlowitsch Medtner . At the same time she became the first piano student of Dmitri Alexandrowitsch Bashkirow , who was himself a Goldenweiser student. She graduated in 1964. Through her teachers, Akopian acquired an intimate knowledge of the classical Russian pianist school from Russian Romanticism to Anton Rubinstein and Franz Liszt .

Artistic career

Akopian was initially a soloist with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. With this orchestra she made recordings of Frédéric Chopin's Preludes op. 28 and Robert Schumann's piano concerto. In the 1970s, Akopian's career was severely hampered by public censorship in the Soviet Union. She was prevented from appearing in public for nearly 10 years because her sister married a Jewish man and applied to travel to Israel. During these years she turned to painting. During this time she exhibited her watercolor works several times in Moscow. As a result of these events, Akopian finally left the Soviet Union in 1978 and settled in London.

In 1983 Akopian made her London debut at Queen Elizabeth Hall with works by Schumann and Chopin. In the 1980s she also appeared with the Wiener Musikverein Quartet and played the Brahms piano quintet and a series "Romantic Fantasia" in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam . In the 1990s Akopian worked as an artistic consultant for the Prague Conservatory . There she gave a series of master classes in the Pálfi Palace. In 1997, in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Johannes Brahms' death, she opened both the Prague Symphony Orchestra's international piano concert series and the Czech Philharmonic's chamber concert series in Prague's Rudolfinum . In October 2002, after a musical absence of 25 years in Russia, she gave a large gala concert in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. In 2008 she gave a highly admired Brahms concert at the Wigmore Hall in London, followed by a Schubert, Janáček and Chopin concert in 2009 and a concert on the 200th birthday of Robert Schumann in 2010.

Honors

In 1963, as a student, Nelly Akopian won the gold medal at the International Robert Schumann Competition for Piano and Voice in Zwickau . In 1974 she was awarded the Robert Schumann Prize of the city of Zwickau. With this second award she followed her Russian pianist colleagues Svyatoslaw Richter , Tatjana Nikolajewa and Emil Gilels .

Michael Church praises the Akopian recordings of the Handel Variations by Brahms in the BBC Music Magazine , which were made in 1995 and 1996 but only published in 1917, as music from another world.

Discography

  • Legendary Russian Pianists (25 CD Box, CD No. 21, including the following recordings by Nelly Akopian-Tamarina: Johannes Brahms: Intermezzi for Piano, Op. 117. Robert Schumann: Phantasie for Piano in C major, Op. 17, Robert Schumann: Arabeske for Piano in C major, Op. 18, Label Brilliant Classics 9014, 2009)
  • Brahms: Handel Variations Op. 24 & 4 Ballades Op. 10 (Pentatone, November 2017)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ peoples.ru: Нелли Акопян-Тамарина. Retrieved October 23, 2018 (Russian). The date of birth is given there.
  2. ↑ Place of birth according to Nelly Akopian, 2017 (Booklet Handel Variations)
  3. ↑ Relocation to London according to: Booklet: Legendary Russian Pianist, p. 32, Nelly Akopian Tamarina.
  4. ^ Michael Church (BBC Music Magazine): Revelatory Brahms from another age. January 23, 2018, accessed October 23, 2018 .
  5. ^ Nelly Akopian-Tamarina: Booklet (Pdf): Brahms: Handel Variations Op. 24 and Ballades Op. 10 (Pentatone). Retrieved February 4, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Akopian, Nelly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Akopian tamarina, Nelly; Akopian-Tamarina, Nelli Surenovna; Акопян-Тамарина, Нелли Суреновна
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian pianist
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow