Ruben Gazarian
Ruben Gazarian (born November 8, 1971 in Yerevan , Armenian SSR ) is an Armenian conductor and was chief conductor of the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn until 2018 . He is currently chief conductor of the Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt.
Life
Ruben Gazarian received his first violin lessons from his father at the age of four. He then studied at the PI Tchaikovsky Special Music School , later at the Yerevan State Conservatory with Ruben Aharonian ( Borodin Quartet ) and most recently at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theater in Leipzig . He completed his studies in 1998 with the highest grade.
Until 1992 Gazarian had a special contract as auditor and soloist in the State Chamber Orchestra of Armenia and was a violinist in the State Piano Trio of the Armenian Radio and Television. He then joined the West Saxon Symphony Orchestra as first concertmaster . In 1999 Gazarian was elected its chief conductor and was at that time the youngest chief conductor in Germany.
In September 2002 Ruben Gazarian won the 1st International Conducting Competition "Sir Georg Solti" in Frankfurt am Main . From 2002 to 2018 he was chief conductor and artistic director of the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra in Heilbronn . In 2015 he became artistic director of the Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt .
Gazarian has successfully collaborated with well-known soloists such as Gautier and Renaud Capuçon , Julia Fischer , Hilary Hahn , Sabine Meyer , Viktoria Mullova , Gerhard Oppitz , Jean-Yves Thibaudet , Beaux Arts Trio , Alice Sara Ott and many others.
Guest Conductor
As a guest conductor, Gazarian u. a. the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra , the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne , the RSO Frankfurt , the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin , the Frankfurt Museum Orchestra , the Strasbourg Philharmonic and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra . Numerous concert recordings of him are available on the Hessischer Rundfunk , Südwestrundfunk , Westdeutscher Rundfunk , Deutschlandradio and Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk .
Web links
- Ruben Gazarian official website
- Works by and about Ruben Gazarian in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography ( memento from December 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra
Individual evidence
- ^ Farewell to the WKO on: SWR of May 18, 2018
- ↑ Ruben Gazarian succeeds Shwartz. In: Augsburger Allgemeine . February 19, 2014, accessed December 18, 2018 .
- ^ Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt extended with Gazarian. In: Music Today. May 9, 2017. Retrieved December 18, 2018 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gazarian, Ruben |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Armenian conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yerevan , Armenian SSR |